By Emily White Dr. Elena Kandror, a Postdoc in Abbas Rizvi’s Lab in the Department of Neuroscience, enjoys many things in life—learning languages, helping students, and studying different contributions to metabolic dysfunction. Kandror was born …
Emily
Student Highlight: Charles Opara — Genetic Variation in Transcript Isoforms
By Emily White Following a long-time interest in biology and metabolic function, Charles Ikechukwu Opara works hard as a graduate student in the UW-Madison Genetics PhD Program and Alan Attie’s lab. His interest began back …
2026 SING Workshop: Training Students and the Community on Genetics Research Among Indigenous Communities
The Center for Genomic Science Innovation (CGSI) hosted the Summer internship for INdigenous People in Genomics (SING) genomics workshop that is co-directed by Rene Begay MS, MPH and Matthew Anderson, PhD. This week-long workshop provides …
Faculty Highlight: Yang Lu — The Intersection of RISE AI, Statistics, and Biology
By Emily White Dr. Yang Lu, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, joined UW-Madison recently as part of the RISE AI initiative, aimed at seeding collaborative opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and data science. Dr. Lu was …
Faculty Highlight: Dhananjay Bhaskar — Geometric Deep Learning for Biological Discovery
By Emily White Dr. Dhananjay Bhaskar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is another new arrival to campus in the RISE AI initiative. Originally from Kanpur, India, Bhaskar grew up in an academic …