Presented by the Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Fall 2023
CGSI is partnering with groups on campus to create and compile mechanisms for UW-Madison genomic researchers to connect, learn, and collaborate.
Matt Anderson joins the Laboratory of Genetics and CGSI, bringing expertise in the effects of genetic diversity and fungal pathogens and a strong connection to Indigenous community.
Matt Anderson joins the Laboratory of Genetics and CGSI, bringing expertise in the effects of genetic diversity and fungal pathogens and a strong connection to Indigenous community.
Jiacheng Miao explains his research on polygenic gene-environment interactions, multi-ancestry genetic risk prediction, and equitable health knowledge.

News from Around Campus

  • Save the date: the third annual CGSI Genomics Retreat is scheduled for June 11, 2024.
  • Collaborative work led by Paul Ahlquist involving CGSI members Josh Coon and Anthony Gitter found a surprising role for a cell cycle factor in HIV infection spread.
  • A new technique from the McClean Lab accelerates the design and tuning of optogenetic systems, which can be harnessed to produce chemicals for therapeutics, biofuels and more.
  • UW-Madison joined a statewide consortium to help bolster Wisconsin’s leadership in personalized medicine and biohealth technology.
  • Data Science Institute to establish campus Open Source Program Office on Campus.
Pub Corner: recent UW genomics publications
 
Seminars and Events
Genomics Seminars
CGSI Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 PM first Thursday of the month
  • Oct. 5: Yali Dou, USC, "Beyond histone methylation: mixed lineage leukemia protein MLL1 in Cancer"
  • Nov. 2: Matt Anderson, UW Medical Genetics, genomics of fungal diversity and pathogenicity 
  • Dec. 7: Justin Wolter, UW Medical Genetics, cellular GWAS and the genomics of neurodevelopmental risk and resilience 

Technology Updates

  • The new NovaSeq X Plus sequencer in the UWBC DNA Sequencing Core is driving down sequencing costs and turnaround time, with nearly 300-fold more data per dollar than its predecessor. Learn more.

  • The UWBC Sequencing Core has replaced Sanger Sequencing with Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing. Learn more.
 
Events
UWBC Bioinformatics Workshops:

  • Sept. 22: Linux Essentials 
  • Sept. 29: Intro to NGS Data Analysis 
  • New: Oct. 13: Flow Cytometry data analysis
  • Oct. 20: mRNA-seq (Tuxedo Suite 1) 
  • New: Oct. 27: mRNA-seq (Tuxedo Suite 2)
Mouse Genomics Workshop: The Jackson Laboratory with the UW-Animal Models Core will offer seminars and break-out sessions.
  • Sept. 19, 1-4 PM: mouse genetics, nomenclature, sex bias and choosing the right mouse model for your research 
  • Sept. 20, 9:30 AM-2 PM: cre/lox mouse models, cancer immunotherapy, obesity and diabetes research 
UWBC Bio-Tech Talk:
  • Oct. 19: Leilani Marty Santos, Spatial Science & Technology advisor, 10x Genomics -- "Bridging histology and genomics, new spatial transcriptomic service offering by the UW Biotechnology Center"
Oct. 23, Wisconsin Epigenetics Group Symposium, Discovery Building. 
  • Keynote seminar by Lindsey James from UNC Chapel Hill, talks by UW Faculty, poster session and social.
The Gene Regulation Seminars (formerly the Transcriptional Supergroup) will begin holding monthly seminars from campus researchers, on third Thursdays from 9–10 AM in the WID Orchard room this Fall (Room 3571 WIMR in the Spring). Email Pat Pointer (patricia.pointer@wid.wisc.edu) for more information and to get added to the email list.   
Seminars around campus
Sept. 13, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Mark Meyer, UW-Madison, “Genomic mechanisms controlling renal vitamin D metabolism” 

Sept. 14, 3:30 PM, Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology: Mark Hoffman, Children’s Mercy Research Institute, "Bits, Bytes and Bugs: Understanding Infectious Disease through Data Science and Informatics"

Sept. 22, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Casey Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, biomedical data science in clinical research and healthcare practices

Sept. 26, 1:45 PM, Initiative in Social Genomic: Jiacheng Miao, UW-Madison, new methods for statistical human genomics 

Sept. 27, 11:00 AM, Cancer Biology: John Karijolich, Vanderbilt, RNA biology in cancer & immunology 

Sept. 27, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Huy Dinh, UW-Madison, genomics of tumor microenvironments

Sept. 29, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Hongtu Zhu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, biostatistics and medical imaging in computational neuroscience 

Oct. 2, 3:00 PM, Biochemistry Seminar Series: Karolin Luger, CU Boulder, "Steenbock Lectures in Biochemistry - Histones: Guardians of the genome in all domains of life” 

Oct. 6, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Claudia Solís-Lemus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, statistical models to answer biological questions with big data 

Oct. 16, 12:00 PM, CHGPM: Teresa Davoli, NYU, causes and consequences of aneuploidy in cancer

Oct. 26, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Colin Begg, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, cancer genomics 

Oct. 27, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Alan Moses, University of Toronto, "Everything everywhere all at once: gene and protein regulation in high-dimensional spaces"

Oct. 30, 3:00 PM, Biochemistry Seminar Series: A. Keith Dunker, Indiana University, “Evolution of IDPs, IDRs, and IDDs, and the role of disorder in the evolution of the genetic code” 

Nov. 1, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Lydia Heasley, University of Colorado, structural variants in genome function and evolution 

Nov. 8, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Alan Attie, UW-Madison, genetics and genomics of diabetes and diet effects 

Nov. 10, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Dongjun Chung, The Ohio State University, statistical and computational methods for integrative analysis of genomic data 

Nov. 15, 11:00 AM, Cancer Biology: Aadel Chaudhuri, Washington University in St. Louis, cell-free nucleic acids for cancer detection 

Nov. 15, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Mahul Chakraborty, Texas A&M, genomic and molecular basis of phenotypic variation and adaptation

Nov. 17, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics: Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, machine learning to understand cellular biological systems from big data 

Nov. 20, 3:00 PM, Biochemistry Seminar Series: Philip Romero, UW-Madison, “Machine learning to navigate sequence-function landscapes for protein engineering” 

Nov. 28, 1:45 PM, Initiative in Social Genomic: Justin Wolter, UW-Madison, genomics of risk and resilience in neurodevelopment 

Nov. 29, 11:00 AM, Cancer Biology: Rong Li, Johns Hopkins, genomics of aneuploidy in cancer and disease 

Dec. 4, 12:00 PM, CHGPM: Huy Dinh, UW-Madison, genomics of tumor microenvironments 

Dec. 12, 10:00 AM, Morgridge Metabolism: Joshua Rabinowitz, Princeton University, metabolomic tools & analysis
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