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
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 …
Staff Highlight: Leah Escalante – Bringing creative endeavors into bench research
By Victoria Rubinetti Research often benefits from perspectives shaped outside the lab. For Leah Escalante, a senior scientist in the Gasch lab, years spent training dogs and horses helped cultivate a problem-solving mindset grounded in …
Faculty Highlight: Marc Chevrette – Interdisciplinary investigation of bacterial eco-evo dynamics
By Victoria Rubinetti Marc Chevrette, an Assistant Professor in the Plant Pathology Department, has embodied interdisciplinary work throughout his academic career. He began on the east coast, growing up in Coventry, Rhode Island and majoring …
Faculty Highlight: Matt Anderson – exploring genetic diversity and Indigenous relationships
Matt Anderson joins the Laboratory of Genetics and CGSI, bringing expertise in the effects of genetic diversity and fungal pathogens and a strong connection to Indigenous community.
Faculty Highlight: Justin Wolter – Genetics of risk and resilience in neurodevelopment
Dr. Justin Wolter joins the Laboratory of Genetics as an Assistant Professor. His lab studies how genomic variation affects risk and resilience in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Faculty Highlight: Valentina Lo Sardo – Trajectory and genetic risk factor research
A leading researcher in genetic risk factors with a focus in cardiovascular disease, Dr. Lo Sardo shares some of her trajectory and research.
Canine solution: how dog genetics is influencing human medicine
Dr. Peter Muir explains why some dog breeds are more vulnerable to disease and how this knowledge can improve human medicine
Ovarian cancer genomics specialist returns to UW
Having trained at UW-Madison, Dr. Jessica Lang simply couldn’t stay away. She returns as an Assistant Professor with deep expertise in chromatin dysfunction in ovarian and other cancers.
UW welcomes two new genomics experts
The Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine welcomed two new hires working in the field of human genetics. Gaelen Hess and Muhammed Murtaza bring new technologies in high-throughput genotype-phenotype analysis and cancer detection, respectively.