Lexi Duncan joined the WSLH PFAS research laboratory in February 2021 as one of four inaugural Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Environmental Health Laboratory Fellows. According to APHL, the […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. The table below lists the […]

On Tuesday, January 17, 2023 the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Communicable Disease Division (CDD) will change testing to the new Abbott Alinity i instrument for several serological hepatitis, […]

As an undergraduate, Nina Desianti became fascinated with diatoms – microscopic single-celled algae with cells walls constructed of silica that live in aquatic environments. Their shapes, their colors, their sizes, […]

WSLH Newborn Screening Director and UW Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Mei Baker and WSLH Newborn Screening Chemist Dr. Brian Conti were named 1 of 6 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) […]

As part of our response to the COVID pandemic, WSLH scientists have been performing genomic sequencing to track how the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus that causes COVID) changes over time. […]

WSLH Newborn Screening Director and UW Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Mei Baker received the Everyday Life Saver Award in Newborn Screening at the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) 2022 […]

By Jori Skalitzky, UW–Madison CALS Office of External Relations The University of Wisconsin–Madison Soil and Forage Analysis Lab, a trusted resource for soil testing services utilized by farmers, gardeners, researchers […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The table below lists the hours […]

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene will be closed on Thursday, November 24, 2022 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Our Specimen Receiving departments will observe the following hours of operation for […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations for the Labor Day holiday. As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH […]

On Thursday, September 1, 2022 the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) will begin testing for Mycoplasma genitalium using the Aptima Transcription-Mediated Amplification (TMA) assay. This assay uses nucleic acid […]

Stay up to date with Monkeypox testing information at the WSLH on our Monkeypox-2022 web page.

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations for the July 4th holiday. As always, if you have an off-hours emergency, please call the WSLH […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Memorial Day holiday. The table below lists the hours of operations […]

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene is one of six wastewater-based epidemiology centers of excellence announced today by Ceres Nanosciences (Ceres). The Centers of Excellence program is supported by an […]

WSLH staff made major contributions to two recently released Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) publications. Senior Scientist Martin Shafer provided a large portion of the content to APHL’s “SARS-CoV-2 […]

WSLH Communicable Disease Division Director Dr. Allen Bateman was interviewed and quoted for the lead Association of Public Health Laboratories Spring 2022 Lab Matters article about balancing SARS-CoV-2 testing with […]

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health publishes the magazine Quarterly. The latest issue has two stories highlighting Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene work in Communicable Disease […]

Heather Barkholtz, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy and the WSLH Forensic Toxicology section, was awarded a $270,000+ grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. The table below lists the […]

The photographers for UW Communications chose their favorite photos of 2021 and Bryce Richter’s photo below of WisCon Consultant Danica Harrier and Program Manager Ernie Stracener made the cut. In […]

WSLH Senior Data Scientist Kelsey Florek sat down for an interview with ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, to talk about what […]

In accordance with Wis. 343.305, the WSLH provides specimen collection kits to law enforcement agencies, hospitals and clinics for the purpose of an OWI investigation. The contract with the current […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The table below lists the hours […]

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has added, by emergency rule, screening for Pompe disease to the Wisconsin Newborn Screening Program’s panel of conditions. This rule will go into […]

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene will be closed on Thursday, November 25, 2021 for the Thanksgiving holiday. Our Specimen Receiving departments will observe the following hours of operation for […]

UW Oshkosh graduate student Sarah Woody spent this past summer looking at heavy metal concentrations in sediment, plant and muskrat tissue at Horicon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. Sarah collaborated with […]

Since 2015, scientists in the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Communicable Disease Division (CDD) have been collaborating with Dr. Jon Temte, UW professor of family medicine and UW School […]

A paper published online in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society reports on a collaboration between the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) housed at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Labor Day holiday. The table below lists the hours of operations […]

Although Manasi Passi-Simhan’s freshman year at UW-Madison may have been mostly virtual in the classroom, her participation in the Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) program provided in-person learning at the WSLH […]

WSLH Communicable Disease Division scientists developed a quantitative RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 as part of a CDC-led study looking at the effectiveness in real-world conditions of the mRNA vaccines developed […]

Heather Barkholtz, PhD, joined the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy in a joint faculty position. Dr. Barkholtz will be an assistant professor […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations for the weekend of July 4th. The WSLH will be closed on Monday, July 5th, in observance […]

If you recently received a letter from the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Chemical Emergency Response Unit asking you to take a survey about our brodifacoum testing services, please follow […]

Peter Shult, emeritus director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Communicable Disease Division, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in a […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Memorial Day holiday. The table below lists the hours of operations […]

Alana Sterkel, PhD, D(ABMM), SM(ASCP)CM has been promoted to Associate Director of the WSLH Communicable Disease Division (CDD) and appointed Assistant Professor (CHS) in the University of Wisconsin Department of […]

The WisCon Onsite Safety and Health Consultation program at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene helps 300+ small businesses a year provide safe and healthy workplaces for their employees and […]

In early March 2020, the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene was one of only two labs in Wisconsin providing SARS-CoV-2 testing. But drawing on its decades-long tradition of working closely […]

Responsibility.org and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Forensic Toxicology Section have launched the National Resource Toxicologist Pilot Program. The program is a multi-year (2020-2022) national assessment of forensic […]

On March 4th Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Communicable Disease Division Director Dr. Allen Bateman joined Kate Archer Kent on Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Morning Show to discuss identifying […]

On March 15, 2021, the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Communicable Disease Division will begin testing for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC), and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) using our […]

Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Senior Scientist Martin Shafer published an article about Wisconsin’s COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program in Central States Water, the official magazine of the Central States Water […]

On January 21st, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced the presence of elevated levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water samples taken from Madison-area lakes and […]

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene is one of four laboratories performing genetic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wisconsin patient specimens. In this story from USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, WSLH Communicable […]

Dr. Allen (Al) Bateman has been named the new Director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Communicable Disease Division. The position was previously held by Dr. Peter Shult for […]

WSLH Newborn Screening Laboratory Co-Director and UW Professor of Pediatrics Mei Baker, MD, received the 2020 Paster Family Foundation Innovation Award from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health […]

Please note the following changes to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene’s operations due to the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. The table below lists the […]