WID researchers work on soil science problems as diverse as understanding microbial communities and using models to assist in management of natural resources. Soil science provides a window into the breadth of inquiry at WID and the interdisciplinary teams required to solve real-world problems.
From On Wisconsin Magazine: UW-Madison students are joining the hunt for new antibiotics in their introductory biology coursework and becoming part of the Tiny Earth network, based at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: At a recent training event, teachers from Milwaukee Public Schools were joined by a teacher from New York Public Schools, a middle school teacher from Oak Creek, and even a researcher planning to bring the program back to his home university in India.
Tiny Earth’s 2018 symposium will feature experts on the front lines of the antimicrobial resistance crisis.
WID Director
Genetic and biochemical processes underlying interactions within plant and human microbiomes.
Instructors from schools across the state are getting their hands dirty in the search for antibiotics by joining the Small World Initiative.
Instructors from eight UW System schools and more than a dozen other colleges and universities are taking a week out of their January break to meet in Madison in search of a crucial discovery — antibiotics.
Sam Rikkers was born and raised in south central Wisconsin but has managed to make his mark in far-flung places. A graduate of Columbia University with a Master of International Affairs, he has served the Peace Corps in Zambia, earned a Law Degree from the University of Wisconsin and served …
Relationship between microbiome and depression. Small World Initiative.
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.
Genetic determinants of bacterial community stability and invasion
Assistant Scientist
Building optimization models that help untangle issues of environmental sustainability.
Instructor, Tiny Earth
Interdisciplinary undergraduate science education with an emphasis on experimental biology.
Effects of antibiotic exposure on invasion, robustness and interactions in microbial communities
Postdoctoral Associate, Handelsman Lab
Investigating the link between the microbiome and clinical depression.
The Multi-Omics Hub will focus on the use of big data about the genes, microorganisms, and metabolites to understand biological systems. WID’s expertise makes it an ideal home for the Epigenetics Initiative for the large campus community that studies the epigenome, and as such WID will organize meetings, seminars, mutli-PI …
Handelsman is one of 34 faculty honored with Vilas professorships supported by the estate of professor, Senator, and Regent William F. Vilas.
Develop software solutions to facilitate modeling and analysis of a diverse set of complex problems.
Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, explores the importance of soil at the Crossroads of Ideas lecture series.
Systems Biology researchers explore the importance of community history and assembly when considering microbial communities in a paper in Nature Communications.
Kalin Vetsigian’s paper published today in Nature sheds light on how antibiotic production and degradation contribute to diversity in microbial communities.
Students wrestle with the sustainability challenges of making real-world decisions about biofuel agriculture while playing an educational video game developed by WID researchers.
