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Researchers at UW–Madison Receive Major Grant to Study the Link Between Mental Health and the Microbiome
Long before science caught up, Vincent Van Gogh sensed a connection between melancholy and microbes. Now, 135 years later, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the Center for Healthy Minds, PRECISE, and MIT have launched a project that investigates the microbiome’s central role in human well-being and the power of interdisciplinary research. Combining genomics, data science, behavioral health, and international collaboration, the research project is advancing a global understanding of how microbes shape the mind.
How disabling one gene protects mice against Type 1 diabetes
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.
Tiny Earth Combating Antibiotic Resistance Featured on NBC15 Madison
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.
New faculty profile: Marc Chevrette explores bacterial conversations happening within host-associated microbiomes
Marc Chevrette joined the UW–Madison faculty and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in August 2025 as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology. His position is part of RISE-EARTH, the sustainability-themed focus area of the university’s Wisconsin RISE Initiative strategic hiring effort to solve grand challenges.
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