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Stories about discoveries, advancements, and forward-thinking ideas from WID’s research areas, hubs, and key collaborators.

Mass Spectrometry Brings Epigenetics into Focus at UW
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Mass Spectrometry Brings Epigenetics into Focus at UW

March 31, 2016 July 22, 2021  -omics, cancer, epigenetics, microbiome, precision medicine

The Epigenetics theme at WID is putting mass spectrometry to use in new ways with specialized workflows designed to uncover the mysteries of chromatin.

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Finding Meaning in Big Data
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Finding Meaning in Big Data

March 24, 2016 March 9, 2020  big data, machine learning

Discovery fellows Rebecca Willett and Rob Nowak are creating algorithms to make sense of big data and help machines learn.

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NEOS Optimizes Itself: New Solvers and Authentication Services Added
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NEOS Optimizes Itself: New Solvers and Authentication Services Added

March 10, 2016 September 5, 2017  optimization, software

Within the past year NEOS has made its services more resilient, sophisticated and diverse.

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Siftr: Web tool for citizen science, ethnography, teaching
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Siftr: Web tool for citizen science, ethnography, teaching

February 25, 2016 August 10, 2020  education, games, outreach

Siftr from the Field Day Lab creates a clearinghouse for the creation of citizen science projects.

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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs
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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs

February 20, 2016 August 30, 2017  big data, modeling, optimization

Professor Thomas Rutherford, WID Optimization, and colleagues used numerical models to examine whether the threat of carbon tariffs might lower the cost of reductions in world carbon emissions in a paper published in the February issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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Professor Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng:  Advancing Microcellular Polymers
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Professor Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng: Advancing Microcellular Polymers

February 18, 2016 December 18, 2018  nanotechnology, tissue engineering

Thanks to the research of Professor Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng, plastics can have applications in products ranging from eyeglass lenses to engineered tissues.

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LEL and CAVE Featured on Big Ten Network Video Profile

February 17, 2016 August 28, 2017  virtual reality

Patti Brennan and Kevin Ponto illuminate the CAVE for a B1G television audience.

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Educational Innovation: ISyE junior design course uses blended learning and lego kits to teach fundamental skills of design
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Educational Innovation: ISyE junior design course uses blended learning and lego kits to teach fundamental skills of design

January 28, 2016 January 29, 2020  education, visualization

Discovery Fellow Rob Radwin uses blended learning and LEGO kits to solve real world problems.

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Epigenetics Research at UW-Madison Ready for the Next Step
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Epigenetics Research at UW-Madison Ready for the Next Step

January 21, 2016 July 22, 2021  -omics, epigenetics, precision medicine

John Denu, Epigenetics Theme leader, keeps UW-Madison on top of research in epigenetics.

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High-Content Analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Edited Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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High-Content Analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Edited Human Embryonic Stem Cells

January 19, 2016 October 3, 2019  big data, gene editing, tissue engineering

Kris Saha and colleagues from the BIONATES Theme detail a new approach that can refine gene editing in this month’s issue of Stem Cell Reports.

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Systems Biology Researchers Study Co-infections of Viable and Defective Viruses
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Systems Biology Researchers Study Co-infections of Viable and Defective Viruses

December 8, 2015 April 11, 2022  complex biological systems

The paper, titled ‘High-throughput single-cell kinetics of virus infections in the presence of defective interfering particles’, was published in the current issue of the Journal of Virology.

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Imagining a Healthier Future
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Imagining a Healthier Future

December 3, 2015 September 5, 2017  creativity, health care

Patricia Flatley Brennan seeks to utilize imagination to optimize patient healthcare outcomes.

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The Science of Funny: Active Machine Learning & Cartoons
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The Science of Funny: Active Machine Learning & Cartoons

November 24, 2015 September 1, 2021  machine learning, optimization, psychology, software

The New Yorker is using a machine learning system developed by WID Optimization researchers to sort through captions for their weekly cartoon caption contest.

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Origins of Life… and John Yin
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Origins of Life… and John Yin

November 19, 2015 July 22, 2021  complex biological systems, creativity

John Yin, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Systems Biology theme leader at WID, is beginning an interdisciplinary initiative to examine the origins of life with new methods, approaches, and perspectives.

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DECIPHER: harnessing local sequence context to improve protein multiple sequence alignment
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DECIPHER: harnessing local sequence context to improve protein multiple sequence alignment

October 22, 2015 September 5, 2017  -omics, complex biological systems

Researchers at WID are continually publishing premier research in top publications. Here, we feature some of the most important and transformative scientific publications from our community.

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The Algebraic Revolution: Solving for Chocolate
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The Algebraic Revolution: Solving for Chocolate

September 17, 2015 July 22, 2021  creativity, modeling, optimization

UW-Madison and WID are on the front lines of the applied algebra movement, changing the way scientists in a wide range of disciplines solve problems.

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Digging into a Biological Tool Patent
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Digging into a Biological Tool Patent

August 27, 2015 October 5, 2018  big data, complex biological systems

Patent secured by the Systems Biology Theme members enhances single cell research.

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Peter Lewis Explores the Epigenetic Pathways of Disease
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Peter Lewis Explores the Epigenetic Pathways of Disease

August 20, 2015 January 29, 2020  cancer, epigenetics, modeling

Short circuiting tumors via Epigenetics drives Lewis Lab’s research.

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Beyond genetics: Ideas from a flowering plant
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Beyond genetics: Ideas from a flowering plant

August 6, 2015 January 29, 2020  cancer, education, epigenetics, outreach

Xuehua Zhong, Assistant Professor in WID’s Epigenetics Theme studies the epigenetic connections mammals share with plants.

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CSI: Discovery
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CSI: Discovery

July 16, 2015 July 22, 2021  health care, outreach, virtual reality

An emerging collaboration between the Living Environments Lab at WID and the Dane County Sheriff’s office is bringing crime scene investigation into the 21st century with 3D scanning technology.

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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes
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Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes

June 4, 2015 February 24, 2020  big data, health care, machine learning, modeling, precision medicine

David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.

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Microbial Diversity: Waging War for Coexistence
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Microbial Diversity: Waging War for Coexistence

May 20, 2015 July 22, 2021  complex biological systems, microbiome, modeling, soil science

Kalin Vetsigian’s paper published today in Nature sheds light on how antibiotic production and degradation contribute to diversity in microbial communities.

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Cracking the (Zip)code of Neural Cells
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Cracking the (Zip)code of Neural Cells

April 2, 2015 September 5, 2017  epigenetics, modeling, tissue engineering

Published today in Stem Cell Reports, researchers led by Randolph Ashton and Ethan Lippmann present a unifying protocol to create neural stem cells from diverse regions of the hindbrain and spinal cord.

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With New Tools, Researchers Aim to Broaden Understanding of Toxins’ Effect on the Body
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With New Tools, Researchers Aim to Broaden Understanding of Toxins’ Effect on the Body

March 25, 2015 September 5, 2017  cancer, complex biological systems, tissue engineering

Through an Environmental Protection Agency initiative, WID researchers are playing a key role in learning how toxins impact human health and the environment.

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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative
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UW-Madison Researchers Sift and Winnow Data Faster with Advanced Computing Initiative

March 19, 2015 May 17, 2022  big data, complex biological systems, outreach, software

The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.

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