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Presented by the Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Fall 2025
Joe Lalli looks at how including newly sequenced genome regions can improve insights into human genetics.
Director Stephanie McGregor discusses human biospecimen resources for genomics researchers.

News from Around Campus


  • Lloyd Smith highlighted by News Medical as a thought leader in proteomics  
  • CGSI affiliate Valentina Lo Sardo and graduate student Elsa Salido find hidden clues in underlying genetic variation in cardiovascular disease.  
  • CGSI affiliate Karthik Anantharaman and colleagues were recognized for their analysis of dynamic fresh-water microbe and viral genomes.  
  • An interview with CGSI affiliate Jean-Michel Ane on his work helping farmers produce crops with less fertilizer.  
  • CGSI affiliate Lingjun Li and colleagues develop new mass-spec imaging methods.  
  • Professor Jake Brunkard was highlighted for his lab’s work on plant genomics and environmental responses. 
  • A partnership involving UW-Madison is expanding newborn genomic testing across Wisconsin.

Publication Highlights


  • Vu Tran and colleagues in the Bresnick lab study genome activation in response to inflammation. Science Advances. May 2025 
  • Gaelen Hess’ lab optimizes base editing systems using mutational scanning. Nucleic Acids Research. June 2025
  • New method ARTEMIS developed by  Sayali Alatkar and Daifeng Wang integrates data from single-cell data to infer dynamic expression and population changes from time series data. Bioinformatics. July 2025
  • Work led by Mehmet Kizilaslan and colleagues in Hasan Khatib’s lab studies the genomics of transgenerational inheritance in sheep. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. July 2025
  • Machine learning methods dissect the genetic basis for fungal phenotypes across nearly 300 fungal genomes in work led by the Hittinger lab and colleagues. Nature Communications. July 2025
  • Lloyd Smith and Emery Bresnick labs study lncRNA-protein interactions using hybridization capture and mass spectrometry. Journal of Proteome Research. Aug 2025

Full list of recent UW genomics publications
Awards and Congratulations
Congratulations to CGSI affiliates:

  • Alan Attie named the Henry and Annrita Lardy Professor of Biochemistry 
  • Rupa Sridharan, Associate Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Daifeng Wang, Associated Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, were named H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellows 
  • Lingjun Li was awarded a Kellett Mid-Career Award.
For the full list of award recipients, click here.
Events and Seminars
Events
Cells in Context: Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Symposium - Sept 10-12

Epigenetics Symposium - October 6, 2025
  • Abstracts are due September 17th. Register here!
UWBC Bioinformatics workshop dates and registration.

Data Science Institute workshops.

UWBC BioTech Talks.
Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium - October 7th, 2025
  • To learn more and to register, visit the Center for Precision Medicine website.
Bioinformatics Café @ CHTC
  • September 10, 2025: Getting Started with CHTC
  • October 8, 2025: Genomics using CHTC
  • November 12, 2025: Microbiome Analysis on CHTC
  • December 10, 2025: TBD
Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 PM, first Thursday of the month, hosted by CGSI

Oct. 2: Qiongshi Lu, UW-Madison, “The Blurred Line Between Genes and Environments: Insights from GWAS of Family Members’ Phenotypes”

Nov. 6: Gene Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain: Lessons from the Honey Bee” 

Dec. 4: Patrick Murphy, University of Rochester, “Transcriptional Priming of Young Endogenous Transposons is Regulated by ANP32E”
Seminars around campus
Oct. 1, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Liza Loza, Matt Anderson Lab

Oct. 6, 3:o0 PM, Biochemistry Colloquium: Brian Hile, Stanford University, “Evolutionary design from molecular to genome scale”

Oct. 20, 2:30 PM, Hirschfelder Prize/Physical Seminar: Frank Noe, Microsoft, deep learning methods to understand molecular systems, title pending 

Oct. 21, 11:00 AM, Hirschfelder Prize/Physical Seminar: Frank Noe, Microsoft, deep learning methods to understand molecular systems, title pending 

Oct. 22, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Eliana Torres Zelada, Harrison Lab

Oct. 24, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Quefeng Li, UNC-Chapel Hill, high dimensional analysis of omics data, title pending

Oct. 29, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Liz Noeul, Werling Lab, and Phil Bergman, Alisch Lab

Nov. 5, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Myron Child, Pool Lab

Nov. 7, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Yang Lu, UW-Madison, machine learning and statistical methods for genomics and proteomic analysis, title pending

Nov. 12, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Ryan Martinez and Erin Alberts, Brunkard lab

Nov. 20, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Mark Gerstein, Yale University, AI-driven tools to analyze genomic and biomedical data, title pending

Dec. 1st, 12:00 PM, Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics Sessions: Audrey Gasch, UW-Madison, “Adding dimensions: how to analyze genomic screens done across many genetic backgrounds?”

Dec. 2, 3:30 PM, Chemical Biology Seminar: Yang Hai, UC Santa Barbara, genomic discovery of biosynthetic enzymes, title pending  

Dec. 3, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Grace Boyum, Hess Lab, and Becca Back, Raman lab
Fall Genomic Courses
GENETICS 335 – Genomes in a Modern World, Carin Loewen and Nicholas Zumwalde

AN SCI 366 – Concepts in Genomics, Francisco Peñagaricano  

GENETICS 375 – Quantitative Methods in Genetics, Steve Schrodi

GENETICS 548 – The Genomic Revolution, Nicole Perna and Bret Payseur 

GENETICS 565 – Human Genetics, Donna Werling and Steven Schrodi    

CRB 630 – Proteomics Approaches for Biologists, Instructor TBD

BIOCHEM/GENETICS 631 – Plant Genetics and Development,  Patrick Masson and Jake Brunkard 

ONC 675 – Mining Genomics Data, Huy Dinh  

BMI/ COMP SCI 775 – Computational Network Biology, Sushmita Roy and Anthony Gitter  

BME 780 – Methods in Quantitative Biology, Megan McClean

ZOOLOGY 957 – Genome Architecture Evolution, Carol Lee 
Full Genomic Course List
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