• Applications for the American Family Funding Initiative are open until March 3
• Researchers in CGSI affiliate faculty member Muhammed Murtaza’s lab developed new sequencing technologies for cancer diagnosis and screening using liquid biopsies
• CGSI affiliate member Jason Peters and collaborators are investigating bacteria viruses to defeat antibiotic resistance
• An unlikely journey: originally a high school drop out, GSTP postdoc and recent UW PhD graduate Kirstan Gimse shares what led her to pursue her dream of becoming a biomedical researcher
• CGSI faculty member Donna Werling comments on sex bias in autism diagnosis that may be tied to immune cell gene expression
• Supercharging evolution: how CGSI member and Biochemistry faculty Vatsan Raman is using phages to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• CGSI director and Department of Medical Genetics faculty Audrey Gasch shares her story on Propelling Women in Power podcast
• Interdisciplinary team including CGSI affiliate faculty Kris Saha (Department of Biomedical Engineering) and Sushmita Roy (Department of Statistics and Medical Informatics) is exploring gene therapy treatments against human blindness
• 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   

• Feb. 2, Oscar Gonzalez Recio, INIA, "Genomic tools for climate change mitigation and adaption in dairy cattle: The long reads era"

• Mar. 2, Lea Starita, University of Washington, "Understanding the functional effects of genetic variation at scale"

• Apr. 6, Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers, "Deciphering cis-regulatory code for development using interpretable deep learning"

• May 4, Michael Meers, Washington U., "Advanced chromatin profiling methods for understanding development and disease"

• Open to all UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff. Instruction will be over Zoom with in-person helpers at satellite locations at the Health Sciences Learning Center.