University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Announcement

Data Science Initiative supports faculty research

Siahpirani paper earns top 10 at RECOMB/ISCB 2017

Congratulations to Alireza Siahpirani! His paper A prior-based integrative framework for functional transcriptional regulatory network inference earned a top 10 rating at RECOMB/ISCB November 19-21, 2017 in New York City, NY. ISCB is the leading professional society for computational biology and bioinformatics.

Sushmita Roy and Jean-Michel Ané win DOE grant

The $7 million grant will study how to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers.

Brittany Baur and Junha Shin join Roy Lab

Welcome to Brittany Baur and Jun Ha Shin. Junha is a postdoc who earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Yonsei University in South Korea he is interested in bioinformatic Brittany is a postdoc who earned her Ph.D. in Computational Sciences from Marquette University. She is interested in predicting long-range enhancer-promoter interactions.

Sushmita Roy Co-Chairs Great Lakes Bioinformatic Conference

The conference was recently held atthe University of Illinois at Chicago from May 15 – 17, 2017. More information on GLBio.

Integrating Transcriptomic & Proteomic Data with predictive networks is in Top 10 reading list

Our paper integrating Transcriptomic and proteomic data to study host response to influenza in host and mammalian systems is in the top 10 reading list Congrats Debbie Chasman!

New grant to pursue research in regulatory network robustness and predictive power

We just received a “Studying complex systems” award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

Sushmita Roy gives an invited talk at Network inference workshop at ECCB2016

A multi-task graph-clustering approach for chromosome conformation capture data sets identifies conserved modules of chromosomal interactions

New publication in Genome Biology/Biomedcentral. Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani, Ferhat Ay, Sushmita Roy

Ali, Christopher and Sushmita head to the first Cold Spring Harbor Probabilistic Genomics Meeting. Ali gives a talk, Christopher presents a poster.

Ali, Christopher and Sushmita head to the first Cold Spring Harbor Probabilistic Genomics Meeting. Ali gives a talk, Christopher presents a poster.