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Summer 2025
With the retirement of founding director David Schwartz, Qiongshi Lu takes the helm.
With the retirement of founding director David Schwartz, Qiongshi Lu takes the helm.
 
Dr. Peters’ lab explores the relation-ship of bacterial genes in antibiotic resistance and bioproduct creation.
Dr. Peters’ lab explores the relationship
of bacterial genes in antibiotic resistance and bioproduct creation.
PhD Student Siyuan Feng studies biological regulation associated with nervous system adaptation to cold climates.
PhD Student Siyuan Feng studies bio-logical regulation associated with nervous system adaptation to cold climates.
 
  • CGSI Affiliate Qiongshi Lu’s research was highlighted in The Scientist.
  • Success stories of the UW-Madison Undiagnosed Disease Program were highlighted in the Wisconsin State Journal. 
  • CGSI affiliate Lingjun Li and colleagues explore proteomic changes in rat brains responding to cocaine in an effort to understand addition.
 
Publication Highlights
  • Lihe Liu and Francisco Peñagaricano developed EnrichKit, a tool that integrates public biological databases and statistical algorithms to streamline comprehensive omics data analysis for livestock.
  • Lee and Roy develop a new approach to study dynamic changes in higher-order chromatin structure across Hi-C datasets.
  • A collaborative team involving the Lu, Rosa, and Muir labs used comparative animal and human genomics to study ACL rupture.
  • Collaborative work in the Anantharaman and Raman labs presents a new method called Meta-SIFT to test bacteriophage mutants with novel host specificities.
  • Work from Melissa Harrison’s lab and colleagues used genomic approaches to study pioneer transcription factors in Drosophila development.
Full list of recent UW genomics publications
 

Thank you for your support during Day of the Badger!
CGSI joined the Day of the Badger for the second time! All the money raised will be used to train the next generation of genomics leaders in the Summer Research Opportunity Program in Genomic Data Science. 
You can still give to support students!
 
Awards and Congratulations
Congratulations to colleagues on their awards:

  • CGSI member Chris Hittinger and affiliate Jean Michel Ane were inducted into the American Academy of Microbiology.
  • CGSI affiliates Dr. Muhammed Murtaza and Wei Xu were honored with Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Awards.
  • CGSI member Lloyd Smith and affiliates Lingjun Li and Ying Ge are named on the Analytical Scientist Power List 2024.
  • UWBC/CGSI Associate Director Chuck Konsitzke received a Robert and Carroll Heideman Award for Excellence in Public Service and Outreach.
  • Postdoc Linda Horianopoulos of the Hittinger Lab and graduate student Katie Klimpel in the Brunkard Lab were recognized for Mentoring Undergraduates In Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities.
Congratulations to CGSI lab undergraduates on recent awards: 

  • Biochemistry Undergraduate Summer Research Award: Emma Mayhew (Gasch Lab)
  • Hilldale awardees from CGSI labs: Evelyn Browning (Schrodi Lab); Luisa Lee (Peters Lab); Sophia Melnyk (Li Lab); Claire Schleicher (Raman Lab) 
  • Hilldale Sophomore awardees from CGSI labs: Giulia Scimonelli (Saha Lab); Sananda Shyamkumar (Dinh Lab); Iris Xu (Ong Lab) 
Upcoming Events
The UW Biotechnology Center will be hosting the following Summer sessions:

Next Gen Sequencing
  • Linux Essentials: June 13 – 9:30am to 4:30pm
  • Intro to NGS Data Analysis: June 16 – 9:30 am to 4:30 pm 
  • mRNA-Seq (Tuxedo Suite 2): June 23 – 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Single Cell mRNA-Seq (spans 2 days): June 25 & 27 – 9:30am – 5:00pm 

New Microbiota Workshop
  • Microbial Shotgun Metagenomics: Taxonomy and Function: June 30, 9:30am to 4:30pm
  • Analysis of Shotgun metagenomics data using R: July 07, 9:30am to 4:30pm
Human Proteomics Program (HPP) Frontiers in Proteomics Seminar
- June 9 at 11 am (HSLC 1335)
  • Speaker will be Yu-Ju Chen, PhD, Institute of Chemistry Academia Sinica
Mycological Society of America conference in Madison, Wisconsin
- June 29-July 2, 2025

6th Annual North American Mass Spectrometry Summer School in Madison - July 21-24, 2025  
  • Registration closes on May 31, 2025 or when capacity is reached 
Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting - Aug 04-08, 2025
 
Genomics Seminar Series
1:30 PM, first Thursday of the month, hosted by CGSI

Sep. 4: Brian Davis, Texas A&M University - Title TBD 
Oct. 2: Luca Pinello, Harvard University - Title TBD 
Nov. 6: Qiongshi Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Title TBD
Dec. 4: Patrick Murphy, University of Rochester - Title TBD
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, Instructor TBD  

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

BME 780 – Methods in Quantitative Biology, Megan McClean

CHEM 923 – Genomic Sciences Program Seminar, Qiongshi Lu
Full Genomic Course List
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