Deep in the Weeds
Xuehua Zhong’s close study of an ordinary plant’s cellular mechanisms could lead to big advances in agriculture and medicine. Zhong is featured in Grow magazine.
Tag: -omics
-Omics research includes fields such as proteomics, genomics, epigenomics, and metabolomics and refers to the totality of a subject: all constituent parts considered collectively.
WID researchers are working to manage and utilize the massive amounts of data associated with -omics research to understand and inform gene regulation, cellular reprogramming, precision medicine, and complex biological systems.
WID is home to the Multi-Omics Hub.
Claudia Solís-Lemus
Assistant Professor
My research involves the development of statistical models to answer biological questions.
Uncovering a Connection Between Regulators and Genes During Early Neurodevelopment
WID researchers used a collaborative combination of computational and wet lab experimental techniques to find a connection between a transcription factor and a neurodevelopment gene.
Ryan Herringa
Associate Professor
Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of stress and mental illness in youth
Logan Wright
A proteomics approach to gut microbial interactions that drive epigenetic changes in human metabolism
WID Seeks Machine Learning and “Fluxomics” Hires
WID seeks to add to its roster of excellent faculty with two new hires in emerging cutting-edge fields.
WID Hubs Launch at Illuminating Connections Event
WID’s new hubs—Data Science, Multi-Omics, and Illuminating Discovery—represent a new path forward for collaborative research projects and fields.
Tour WID’s New ‘Hubs’ Designed to Spur Campus Collaborations Dec. 12
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery will launch a suite of hubs designed to bring together researchers from across campus and provide access to specialized tools and resources.
Erika Da-Inn Lee
Developing computational tools to learn the principles of genome organization
Sarah Stevens
Data Science Hub Facilitator
Facilitating connections and training researchers in data science.
Data Science Initiative Supports Faculty Research at UW–Madison
Ten highly innovative projects have been chosen to receive University of Wisconsin–Madison Data Science Initiative funding, including two led by Wisconsin Institute for Discovery investigators.
Brian Yandell
Professor
Co-lead of Data Science Hub (hub.datascience.wisc.edu). Research on systems genetics.
WID Researchers Looking to the Future with UW2020 Awards
Investigators from WID are among the recipients of the latest round of UW2020 awards.
Ahna Skop
Professor
Mechanisms that underlie cell division and using scientific art to engage the public
Stefan Pietrzak
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms regulating cellular differentiation and reprogramming
Sean Palecek
Professor
Engineering platforms to regulate human pluripotent stem cell differentiation
Weaning Crops from Nitrogen Fertilizers: Examining Evolution’s Innovations
WID researcher Sushmita Roy and collaborators at UW–Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study how some plants partner with bacteria to create usable nitrogen and to transfer this ability to the bioenergy crop poplar.
Sailendharan Sudakaran
Madison Microbiome Hub Manager / Multi Omics Hub Coordinat
Campus resource to support researchers interested in tackling a broad spectrum of microbiome research
Eric Armstrong
Comparative metabolomics; Epigenetics of therapy-resistant prostate cancer
Alexis Lawton
Understanding the mechanisms and biological functions of reversible protein acetylation.