Sustainable Organic Aerogels for Insulation
Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong, Alireza Javadi, Zhiyong Cai, Ronald Sabo, and Qifeng Zheng have developed hybrid organic aerogels with desirable insulation properties.
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Tools for Discovery: Erik Wright
Tools for Discovery is a regular profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.
Gut bugs affect DNA expression
The podcast “Is DNA the Basis for all Life in the Universe?” produced by The Naked Scientists, an affiliate of the BBC at Cambridge University features John Denu speaking of his recent findings on how the gut microbiome affects DNA expression.
Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks
Systems Biology researcher Sushmita Roy is leading an effort putting computational methods to work characterizing the gene regulatory networks responsible for cell differentiation.
UW-Madison Researchers Study Plant Aging To Improve Yields
Xuehua Zhong speaks to Hope Kirwan of Wisconsin Public Radio about leaf senescence.
Inspiring Innovations in Moving Pictures
Systems Biology Theme Leader, John Yin, Optimization Fellow, Rebecca Willett, LEL alumna, Carrie Roy, and new LEL Principal Investigator, Karen Schloss explain their innovative research. Sit back, relax and massage your brain with WID science.
Summer lab in China: Cultural enrichment for CBE students
For the past three summers, John Yin has led a delegation of UW–Madison Chemical and Biological engineering students to Hangzhou, China, affording both an academic and culturally enriching experience.
Jo Handelsman Named Director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) will have a new director: Jo Handelsman, a Yale professor and official of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Gut’s Microbial Community Shown to Influence Host Gene Expression
The upshot of the study from researchers in the Epigenetics theme at WID is another indictment of the so-called Western diet, high in saturated fats, sugar, and red meat.
Aging Leaves: How Epigenetic Regulation Gives Rise to the Signature Colors of Fall
Xuehua Zhong describes an epigenetic mechanism behind plant aging for the first time in a ground-breaking new paper in eLife.
Tools for Discovery: Hallah Ghanem
Tools for Discovery is a profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries. This special installment follows a unique career trajectory taken by one of our staff.
Can Artery ‘Banks’ Transform Vascular Medicine?
BIONATES Lih-Sheng “Tom” Turng works in tandem with Morgridge Institute for Research scientist James Thomson to create scaffolds for small diameter arteries.
Smart Cancer Therapies: Teaching the Body’s Own T-cells to Attack Tumors
Kris Saha with colleagues David Beebe and Christian Capitini aim to develop improved methods for making CAR T-Cells with a two-year grant from the NSF.
Barry named UW-Madison’s Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art
Associate Professor Lynda Barry, an award-winning author and cartoonist with the School of Education’s Art Department, has been chosen as UW-Madison’s first recipient of the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art.
Postcards from WID: What We Did on Our Summer ‘Vacation’
WID researchers share their summer exploits.
Seminars Showcase the Best of WID’s Collaborative Environment
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery’s SILO and Qbio Seminars pull researchers from across campus for engaging interdisciplinary talks in mathematics and quantitative biology.
New Biodegradable Integrated Circuits Signal the Future of E-Waste Management
Zhenqiang Ma, Yei Hwan Jung, Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong, and Tzu-Hsuan Chang have developed substantially biodegradable microwave integrated circuits and methods for their manufacture.
Learning Like Humans, Machines Extend the Reach of Research
WID Optimization researchers have partnered with faculty across campus to work on ways to use computers to make better use of human brain power.
Olvi Mangasarian reflects on pioneering career in optimization
Singing the praises of and reflecting upon a career rooted in optimization.
Understanding the Immune System with Machine Learning
Systems Biology researchers Deborah Chasman and Sushmita Roy are using machine learning to identify virus and pathogenicity-specific regulatory networks which may guide the design of effective therapeutics for infectious diseases. The work is described in a recent paper in PLOS Computational Biology.