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Immersed in the Ethics of Virtual Reality

The Living Environments Laboratory will host the Ethics in Investigational & Interventional Uses of Virtual Reality (e3iVR) conference beginning with public talks on the afternoon of April 26. More information and registration are at go.wisc.edu/e3iVR.

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SAVE THE DATE! Part 1 of our Productive Failure mini-series! Crossroads of Ideas: How Failure Fuels Innovation. Featuring @sahakris.bsky.social, jon-eckhardt.bsky.social, and Adhira Sunkara. go.wisc.edu/crossroads-of-ideas
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. https://wid.wisc.edu/researchers-at-uw-madison-receive-major-grant-to-study-the-link-between-mental-health-and-the-microbiome/
In collaboration with the Feyza Engin Lab, Khagani Eynullazada, a grad student from WID's Sushmita Roy 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. https://news.wisc.edu/how-disabling-one-gene-protects-mice-against-type-1-diabetes/

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