Presented by the Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Spring 2024
The MERFISH system purchased by the Waisman Center will significantly boost campus functional genomics capability with spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics.
Margaret Thairu shares her unusual academic trajectory and how it led her to research studying microbial community function.
Margaret Thairu shares her unusual academic trajectory and how it led her to research studying microbial community function.
A team of researchers, including UW-Madison’s Dr. Matt Anderson, will spearhead a Tribal Data Repository for health data and projects focused on Tribal citizens.

News from Around Campus
  • Save the date: the third annual CGSI Genomics Retreat is scheduled for June 11, 2024.
  • John Pool and colleagues investigate 200-year-old fruit fly DNA.
  • Hasan Khatib and colleagues research the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance effects of diet in sheep.
  • Armed with two new grants, Jason Peters continues his quest to find new targets for the hardest-to-treat bacterial infections.
  • Vatsan Raman earned a 2023 NSF CAREER Award for his work studying bacteriophages as antibiotics.
  • Tony Gitter named the inaugural Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in Virology.
  • Calling all science volunteers! The Family Science Nights program is looking for volunteers to lead hands-on science activities at schools and community centers this spring. Volunteer here.
  • The Initiative in Social Genomics and LaFollette School of Public Affairs are inviting paper proposals for The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) to be held live June 5-7. Papers should be submitted by March 15. For more information, click here.
Pub Corner: recent UW genomics publications
 
News and Events
Genomics Seminars
CGSI Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 pm first Thursday of the month

  • Feb. 1, Kranthi Varala, Purdue University, "Network inference from public datasets: A cheap and efficient approach to find novel transcriptional regulators"
  • Mar. 7, Mike Love, UNC Chapel Hill, "Modeling isoform and allele expression from (short) RNA-sequencing reads"
  • Apr. 4, Kieran Samuk, UC Riverside, "The evolution and consequences of recombination rate variation"
  • May 2, Katie Pollard, UCSF/Gladstone Institutes, "Decoding the Evolutionary Histories and Functions of Human Accelerated Regions"
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Events
Feb. 7-8, Data Science Hub Research Bazaar. Register by Jan. 30

R/Python Programming Workshops
  • Open to all UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff
Methods for Biological Data workshop series:
  • Feb. 7, 2 PM: Kris Sankaran, UW-Madison Department of Statistics -- "Simulation in Omics"
UWBC Bio-Tech Talks:
  • Feb. 15, 1:30 PM: Logan Silber, Illumina, Sequencing Sales Specialist -- "X Marks the Spot: Unearthing New Insights with the NovaSeq X at the UW-Biotech Center"
UWBC Bioinformatics Workshops:
  • Mar. 18: Linux Essentials
  • Mar. 25: Intro to NGS Data Analysis
  • Apr. 1: mRNA-Seq (Tuxedo Suite 1)
  • New: Apr. 15: mRNA-Seq (Tuxedo Suite 2)
Initiative in Social Genomics weekly meetings moved to Fridays at 9 am

Apr. 5-7, UW Science Expedition

Oct. 8, Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium 2024
Seminars around campus
Feb. 7, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: John Murray, University of Pennsylvania, "Spatiotemporal decoding of embryonic development"

Feb. 14, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Joseph Heitman, Duke University, "RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antimicrobial drug resistance"

Feb. 16, 12 PM, John D. Wiley Seminar Series: Justin Wolter, UW-Madison, "Exploring mechanisms underlying the effect of common genetic variation on neurodevelopmental traits in genetically diverse cell lines"

Feb. 19, 12 PM, Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Veronica Rodriguez-Bravo, Mayo Clinic, "Dissecting genome organization and stability dysregulation in metastatic prostate cancer"

Feb. 23, 12 PM, John D. Wiley Seminar Series: Christina Gurnett, Washington University in St. Louis, “The brain gene registry: An IDDRC resource for rare disease research”

Mar. 6, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Catherine Tcheandjieu, Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, "Why genetic ancestry/similarity matter in gene mapping and genetic discovery: Example for Coronary Artery Diseases"

Mar. 8, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: Sihai Dave Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, computational genomics, title pending

Mar. 8, 12 PM, John D. Wiley Seminar Series: Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, University of California-Los Angeles, “Mechanisms of neurogenesis in the developing human neocortex”

Mar. 12, 12 PM, Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Adrian V. Lee, Institute for Precision Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, genomics and precision medicine, title pending

Mar. 20, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Mete Civelek, University of Virginia, systems genomics and disease pathways, title pending

Apr. 3, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Sohini Ramachandran, Brown University, human population genomics, title pending

Apr. 4, 3:30 PM, Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology: Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, University of Florida, "From genes to mechanisms: Unveiling functional mysteries in sequenced genomes"

Apr. 5, 12 PM, John D. Wiley Seminar Series: Eric Marsh, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, “Understanding developmental and epileptic disorders: From gene to circuit to patient”

Apr. 12, 12 PM, John D. Wiley Seminar Series: Jason Stein, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Pharmacogenomics and Gene X Environment interactions in a dish”

Apr. 15, 12 PM, Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Sana Syed, University of Virginia, precision medicine, title pending

Apr. 19, 12 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar: Bo Wang, University of Toronto, machine learning and integrative genomics, title pending

May 1, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Tim van Opijnen, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, microbial genomics, title pending

May 16, 10 AM, Morgridge Metabolism Colloquium: Joshua Rabinowitz, Princeton University, mass spec. metabolomics, title pending
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