• CGSI and Genetics faculty Chris Hittinger led a landmark study on genome evolution, offering a possible answer to one of the oldest questions in the field: why some species are generalists and others specialists.
• Yury Bukhman and colleagues in the group of Ron Stewart at the Morgridge Institute published the reference genomes for the blue whale and the Etruscan shrew. 
• CGSI and Biochemistry faculty Vatsan Raman and colleagues bring insight into the evolutionary rules of genetic regulation with protein ruggedness.  
• Brad Schwab, from CGSI affiliate John Yin's lab, used computational models to predict viral fitness. 
• A Research Forward grant that includes CGSI affiliate Jason Peters in the School of Pharmacy will incorporate transposon and CRISPR screening to investigate infectious disease therapies.  

• Katsumura et al. (in CGSI affiliate faculty Emery Bresnick's lab) in PNAS describes how genetic variation in GATA2 creates a predisposition to bone marrow failure, which often precedes leukemia.
• Gelman et al. (with CGSI affiliate Anthony Gitter's and Phil Romero's labs) proposes a new machine learning method for protein engineering that integrates biophysical modeling.
• Gibson et al. (in CGSI affiliate Melissa Harrison's lab) in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology describes new insights on regulation of pioneer factor binding and function.

Thank you for your support during Day of the Badger!

• CGSI member Sündüz Keleş, Departments of Statistics & Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, received the 2023 SMPH Group of Women in Medicine and Science Impact award.
• CGSI member Christina Kendziorski, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, was named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
• CGSI director Audrey Gasch, Laboratory of Genetics, was awarded a UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award. 
• CGSI affiliate Jean Michel-Ané, Departments of Bacteriology & Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, was elected into AAAS.
• CGSI affiliates Jean-Michel Ané, Departments of Bacteriology & Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, and Guilherme Rosa, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, were awarded the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship.
• CGSI affiliate Jake Brunkard, Laboratory of Genetics, received a Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award.
• Tyler Gibson from the Harrison Lab, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, received a 2023 Raymond L. Erikson Exceptional Thesis Award.

• Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship: Katarina Aranguiz (Hittinger Lab), Sydney Olson (Lang Lab), Anna Sabel (Lo Sardo Lab), David Givand (Saha Lab), and Nikhil Chandra (Saha Lab). 
• Sophomore Research Fellowship: Elizaveta Korolev (Hittinger Lab), Claire Schleicher (Raman Lab), and Meghan Basil (Suen Lab). 

• Sep. 5, Barak Cohen, Washington University in St. Louis, "Integration of cis-regulatory information in the genome" 
• 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"

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• Presenter registration deadline: Sep. 10
• Non-presenting participants registration deadline: Oct. 2