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Re-inventing Discovery
Expertise at WID
Resilience, Robustness, Adaptability – WID Seminar Series














Resilience in Microbial Communities
Building resilience in systems:
decisions and strategies

Resilience Robustness and Adaptation:
The cornerstones of microbial symbioses
Reasoning about Interventions:
a Statistical Tour

Persistent Change: Lessons from
the growth and spread of viruses
The evolutionary origins of resilience, robustness and adaptability

Inclusive Learning
Through Scientific Teaching
Dealing with Noice in Discrete Optimization


Stories of Discovery
Research, outreach, and initiatives at WID embody the Wisconsin Idea — reaching beyond the walls of the institute and the UW campus and into the lives of citizens across the state, country, and world.
New nanoparticles deliver therapy brain-wide, edit Alzheimer’s gene in mice
Shaoqin "Sarah" Gong and her lab have developed a way to move therapies across the brain’s protective membrane to deliver brain-wide therapy with a range of biological medications and treatments.
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Yin is part of a grant to create and study a “digital twin” of the urinary tract
Yin and collaborating researchers are building the model to investigate how the nervous system and urinary tract are connected.
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Drying process could be key step in the development of life
PhD student Hayley Boigenzahn and professor John Yin can explain how one of the potentially crucial early steps on the path of life could have happened. They published their findings in the Dec. 2022 issue of the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres.
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Discovery Hubs
WID’s hubs act as integrators for the campus community, generating new ideas that nucleate new collaborative research projects. The hubs make use of WID expertise to provide services that assist other researchers in applying specialized tools to a range of problems extending far beyond the scope of WID’s programs. Explore WID’s Hubs:
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