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In collaboration with the Feyza Lab, Khagani Eynullazada, a grad student from Sushmita Roy’s lab identified gene regulatory networks capturing shared and perturbation-specific stress pathways in Type 1 diabetes using GRN inference tools on scRNA-seq data from in vivo mouse models.

Students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical Collage (NWTC) are looking for ways to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria as part of an eight-year project with Tiny Earth, a worldwide initiative headquartered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, College of Letters & Science faculty, including Discovery Fellow, Bilge Mutlu, are tackling a red-hot research topic.

WID Discovery Fellow, Jim Luedtke created a course to build on students’ basic knowledge of optimization, teach them to apply more advanced modeling techniques and introduce them to real-world considerations like prioritizing computational efficiency. This course bridges the gap between introductory topics and real world applications.

Speaking to the Global Health Institute at UW–Madison, Saha notes, "Both locally and abroad, my sense is there are unknown questions we’re asking, and there’s a mutual interest in being able to solve them for advancing healthcare. The role of a public university is to try to answer those questions for public benefit and, yes, to help make a company that can produce it in a sustainable and safe way – to get that impact and employ people in the process."