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Fall 2024

The UW Undiagnosed Disease Program combines cutting-edge technologies and new research developments to help diagnose Wisconsin patients.

From a UW-Madison student to Principal Scientist at the largest provider of consumer DNA testing in the world, Keith Noto shares details on his trajectory and current role .

PhD student Kwangmoon Park explains his research developing statistical tools for high-dimensional genomic data.

News from Around Campus

Save the date: The fourth annual CGSI-hosted Genomics Retreat is scheduled for June 10, 2025.
Dr. Muhammed Murtaza was named the new Director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine (CHGPM).
CGSI member Vatsan Raman, Department of Biochemistry, received a H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship.
Kris Saha and Dan Cappabianca published a new method to fight cancer with genome-edited T cells.
CGSI member Colin Dewey, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, was awarded a new NIH grant for biomedical metadata standardization, which enables researchers to better leverage genomic datasets in databases.

Full list of recent UW genomics publications

Events & Seminars

Events

UWBC Bioinformatics workshops:

Sept. 17: Intro to Next Gen Sequence Analysis
Oct. 14–15 (2-day workshop): Data Analysis of Single Cell RNA-Seq
Oct. 22: mRNA-Seq Data Analysis (Tuxedo suite 1)
Oct. 29: mRNA-Seq Data Analysis (Tuxedo suite 2)

The Social Genomics Working Group will hold hybrid meetings on most Thursdays from 9-10:30 AM at 1328 Sterling Hall.

RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges, Madison, WI, Oct. 1-3. With UW Madison’s Sündüz Keleş among the keynote speakers.

Registration deadline: Oct. 2

Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium, “The Leading Edge of Precision Medicine,” UW-Madison HSLC 1306, HSLC 1345, and atrium, Oct. 8,

8 AM–5 PM.

Advances in Precision Medicine: Frontiers in Human Genetics Conference, Zuckerman Institute, 3227 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York, and through Zoom,

Oct. 10-11.

UW-Madison Epigenetics Symposium, DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building,

Nov. 4.

Keynote seminar by Dr. Mazhar Adli, Northwestern University.

Bio-Tech Talks: Alex Veith, Bradfield Lab, UW-Madison, “Using long-read RNA sequencing to identify unique transcript isoforms”, Dec. 19, 1:30 PM.

Genomics Seminar Series

1:30 PM, first Thursday of the month , hosted by CGSI

Oct. 3: Kyle Gaulton, University of California San Diego, mapping gene regulation of type 1 diabetes and other complex diseases, title pending

Nov. 7: Hee-Sun Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Comparative whole-brain spatial omics: Molecular annotation of neuronal circuitry”

Dec. 5: Brian Davis, Texas A&M University, “Pangenomes in canine and equine, the next evolution of comparative genomics”

Seminars around campus

Sept. 11, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Chris Hittinger, UW-Madison, “The genomic making of metabolic niche breadth in a eukaryotic subphylum”

Sept. 18, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Russ Corbett-Detig, UC Santa Cruz, “Transposable elements drive the evolution of new introns”

Oct. 4, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Daniel Pimentel-Alarcon, UW-Madison, theory and approaches to interpreting sparse and noisy data, title pending

Oct. 9, 11 AM, Cancer Biology Seminar Series: Charles Perou, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, genomics approaches to improve outcomes of breast cancer patients, title pending

Oct. 10, 3:30 PM, Biology Colloquium: Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University, "Genes, jeans, genomes, and the wondrous cycles of polyploidy in plants"

Oct. 11, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Ava Amini, Microsoft Research – Virtual Only, engineering new technologies for precision medicine, title pending

Oct. 18, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Yuan Ji, The University of Chicago, big-data-driven discovery in cancer biology and precision medicine, title pending

Nov. 12, 11 AM, Chemistry Theoretical Seminar: Greg Bowman, University of Pennsylvania, modeling protein structures and predicting the impact of genetic variation on structure and function, title pending

Nov. 13, 11 AM, Cancer Biology Seminar Series: Ping Chi, Cornell University, genetic and epigenetic factors of context-dependent oncogenesis, title pending

Nov. 14, 3:30 PM, Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology: Nkrumah Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, genomics and evolution of pathogenic bacteria, title pending

Nov. 15, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Yaping Liu, Northwestern University, computational and high-throughput methods for understanding regulatory roles of non-coding genetic variants, title pending

Dec. 4, 11 AM, Cancer Biology Seminar Series: Tony Gitter, UW-Madison, machine learning to address biological challenges, title pending

Dec. 4, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Jesse Weber, UW-Madison, genomics and ecology of adaptive evolution, title pending

Dec. 5, 3:30 PM, Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology: Carolyn Ibberson, The University of Oklahoma, genomics and physiology of chronic bacterial infection, title pending

Dec. 10, 4 PM, Department of Neuroscience: Erin O’Shea, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, title pending

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