Kenneth B. Raper Symposium – University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology – UW–Madison

41st Annual Kenneth B. Raper Symposium

Tuesday, August 31, 2027

See you then!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Nancy Gouker Best Graduate Student Poster:

Sely Peña-Rivera
An Integrase-Based Tool for Sequential Delivery of DNA Cargoes into Alphaproteobacterial Genomes

Kira Ruiz-Houston
Listeria monocytogenes Requires Phosphate Acetyltransferase (Pta) to Facilitate Virulence ex vivo and in vivo

Kenneth B Raper at a microscope — Kenneth Raper working in the laboratory in 1949. Professor Raper had dual appointments in bacteriology and botany. During World War II, he conducted research at a USDA lab in Peoria, Illinois, and identified a better strain of penicillin-producing mold. He later joined the faculty at UW–Madison. UW-Madison Archives