Ann C. Palmenberg

Ann C. Palmenberg was a professor of virology and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.S. from St. Lawrence University and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Palmenberg worked as postdoctoral fellow in Zurich.

Palmenberg received numerous awards for her research and involvement within the scientific community, such as Fellow for the American Academy of Microbiology. News articles have been published about her work within virology, including an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on her findings on the common cold.

Background She took a lot of inspiration from her great uncle who was a chemist, but the main thing that made her pursue her career was when the polio vaccine was first given out and she got it at school.

Leadership and service Reviewer for Journal of Virology, Archives of Virology, Virology, Cell, Journal of Molecular Biology, EMBO Journal, PNAS, Science, Nature, Virus Research, and Biochemistry journals from 1975–Present Proteolytic Processing of Picornaviral Polyprotein Sequencing and Analyses of All Known Human Rhinovirus Genomes Reveal Structure and Evolution Sequence and Structural Elements that Contribute to Efficient Encephalomyocarditis Virus RNA Translation The Nucleotide and Deduced Amino Acid sequences of the Encephalomyocarditis Viral Polyprotein Coding Region