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Presented by the Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Spring 2025
The “Problems in Precision Medicine and Genomics” discussion sessions will bridge clinicians and campus researchers by focusing on specific challenges and genomic solutions.
New Faculty Tianyuan Lu combines statistical and population genomics to advance clinical genomics.
New Faculty Tianyuan Lu combines statistical and population genomics to advance clinical genomics.
Athena Golfinos-Owens looks back on her PhD research using multi-omics to study immuno-oncology.
 

News from Around Campus

  • Muhammed Murtaza, Director of the Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine and affiliate of CGSI, was awarded a WARF Innovation Award for his work on an at-home cancer screening test.
  • Professor Kris Saha was highlighted by STAT News as one of the Top Ten researchers developing gene editing technologies.
  • CGSI member Qiongshi Lu and lab studied the perils of AI applied to human genetic data.  
  • UW-Madison faculty participated in a program innovating in statistical genomics. 
  • The Wisconsin Innocence Project received a grant to leverage recent advances in DNA testing technology. 
  • The Office of the Vice Chancellor announced a new distinguished postdoctoral fellow program for research related to RISE themes.
Full list of recent UW genomics publications
Events & Seminars
Events
UWBC Bioinformatics workshops:
  • Mar. 21: Linux Essentials 
  • Apr. 4: Microbiome analysis using QIIME2 
  • Apr. 11: Analysis of QIIME2 microbiome results
  • Apr. 18: Intro to Next Gen Sequence Analysis
  • May 2: mRNA-Seq Data Analysis
The Data Science Research Bazaar will be held March 19-20 in the Discovery Building.

Data Science Institute workshops and classes can be found here.

The Collaborative Genomics Conference will meet bi-monthly starting Jan. 28th at 1:00 – 2:00 PM, 465 Henry Mall HMS-228, and virtually.

The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series will be held in Madison on May 14-16, 2025.

BioTech Talks:
  • Feb, 20: Molly Zeller, UWBC DNA Sequencing Core Facility, “Is it Me You're Looking For? A Multi-Platform and Cross-Site Evaluation of Technologies and Methods Used for DNA Methylation and Profiling (ABRF-DSRG 2023 Study)”
  • Mar. 20: Guest Speaker from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, title pending
  • Apr. 17: Sean Schoville, Professor, Department of Entomology, “The Role of Genomics in Studying and Managing Pest Evolution”
  • May 15: Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly, UW Health Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, title pending
Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 PM, first Thursday of the month, hosted by CGSI

Feb. 6: Brian Strahl, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, “Chromatin mechanisms and genome maintenance functions of histone code writers”

Mar. 6: Anthony Gitter, UW-Madison Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, “Protein language models: Teaching old sequences new tricks”

Apr. 3: Abbas Rizvi, University of Wisconsin - Madison, “Identifying hidden states in the central nervous system” 

May 1: Jean Fan, Johns Hopkins University, “Multi-sample comparative spatial omics data analysis”
Seminars around campus
Jan. 29, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Nathan Clark, University of Pittsburgh, evolutionary histories of genomic elements, “History Repeats Itself: Genetic changes underlying convergent phenotypic traits are revealed through comparative genomics”

Jan. 31, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Jiyang Yu, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Spotiphy (Spot imager with pseudo single-cell resolution histology), a novel computational toolkit that transforms sequencing-based spacial transcriptomic data 

Feb. 3, 12:00 PM, Precision Medicine Interest Group Seminar: Justin Wolter, UW-Madison, “Genetics in a dish: leveraging induced pluripotent stem cells to identify genetic modifiers of rare diseases”

Feb. 7, 12:00 PM, John Wiley Seminar Series: Donna Werling, UW-Madison, “Gene expression in brain as a tool for identifying sex-differential risk mechanisms for autism” 

Feb. 11, 3:30 PM, Plant Pathology Seminar: Dahlia Nielsen, NC State University, “Cross-species gene x environment interactions using a plant-parasite model” 

Feb. 12, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Bret Payseur, UW-Madison, genomics to understand mechanisms of evolution, title pending 

Feb. 18, 3:30 PM, Plant Pathology Seminar: Kris Sankaran, UW-Madison, “Enhancing Microbiome Analysis with Semisynthetic Data”

Mar. 5, 3:30 PM, Genetics Colloquium: Charlie Boone, University of Toronto, global mapping of genetic and chemical-genetic interaction networks, title pending 

Mar. 13, 12:10 PM, Molecular virology seminar series: Daniel Blanco-Melo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, “From hundreds to million years: multiomic characterization of past viral infections”

Mar. 21, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Leng Han, Indiana University, computational biology, RNA biology, and systems biology to identify novel prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers, title pending 

Apr. 10, 3:30 PM, Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology: Andrew Doxey, University of Waterloo, development and application of computational methods to predict novel molecular functions, title pending 

Apr. 11, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Wenjin Jim Zheng, UT-Houston, novel methods for modeling, visualization, and mining of genome information for translational medicine, title pending 

Apr. 21, 3:00 PM, Biochemistry Colloquium: Mustafa Mir, University of Pennsylvania, advanced imaging and biophysical modeling of dynamics of nuclear organization and gene expression during cell-fate determination, title pending 

Apr. 25, 12:00 PM, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar: Zhiyong Lu, National Institutes of Health, artificial intelligence and machine leaning approaches to biomedical text and image processing, and information retrieval, title pending
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