Alan Attie

Alan Attie

Biochemistry

Molecular genetics of diabetes & insulin resistance; cell biology of lipoprotein assembly and cholesterol trafficking.

David Beebe

David Beebe

Biomedical Engineering

Design, fabrication, and testing of novel micro fabrication techniques; microdevices and microsystems designed to facilitate advances in biology.

Emery Bresnick

Emery Bresnick

Cell & Regenerative Biology

Multidisciplinary approaches to understand stem/progenitor cell function, blood cell development, and vascular biology.

Mark Burkard

Mark Burkard

Medicine, Hematology-Oncology

Identification of genetic alterations in cancer cells; cancer genomics; targeted treatment strategies for breast cancer.

Karl Broman

Karl Broman

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Statistical problems in genetics, genomics and molecular biology.

Jason Cantor

Jason Cantor

Biochemistry; Morgridge Inst. for Research

Studies how environmental factors impact metabolic regulation and requirements with relevance to cancer and immunology

Qiang Chang

Qiang Chang

Genetics; Waisman Center

Integrated analyses of epigenetic regulation of brain functions

Joshua Coon

Joshua Coon

Chemistry

Development and application of new technologies and instrumentation for automated, large-scale whole protein characterization.

Mark Craven

Mark Craven

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development and application of machine-learning methods to inferring models of, and reasoning about, networks of interactions among genes, proteins, clinmical and environmental factors, and phenotypes of interest.

Colin Dewey

Colin Dewey

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Algorithms and statistical models for genomics.

Huy Dinh

Huy Dinh

Oncology; Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Computational biology approaches to understand how the immune tissue microenvironment changes toward finding immunotherapeutic biomarkers and targets

Timothy Donohue

Timothy Donohue

Bacteriology

Studying synthesis and activity of proteins that function in critical energy generating pathways in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

Corinne Engelman

Corinne Engelman

Population Health Sciences

Genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease and Vitamin D deficiency.

Catherine Fox

Catherine Fox

Biomolecular Chemistry

Genomic and computational analyses of chromsome replication in eukaryotes.

Thomas Friedrich

Thomas Friedrich

Pathobiological Sciences

RNA virus evolution, transmission and pathogenetics

Audrey Gasch

Audrey Gasch

Genetics

The genomics of yeast responses to environmental stress and starvation.

Anthony Gitter

Anthony Gitter

Morgridge Inst. for Research; Biostat. & Med. Informatics

Development of computational approaches to reconstruct signally pathways and transcriptional regulatory networks from multiple types of high throughput data.

Jo Handelsman

Jo Handelsman

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Understanding diversity in microbial communities and their role in infectious disease.

Melissa Harrison

Melissa Harrison

Biomolecular Chemistry

Understanding of how information encoded in the genome is differentially interpreted during organismal development.

Chris Hittinger

Chris Hittinger

Genetics

Diversity and evolution of yeast carbon metabolism networks.

Aaron Hoskins

Aaron Hoskins

Biochemistry

Elucidating biochemical mechanisms in eukaryotic RNA metabolism with chemistry, biology, and single molecule analysis

Christina M. Hull

Christina M. Hull

Biomolecular Chemistry

Molecular biology of human fungal pathogens.

Sunduz Keles

Sunduz Keles

Statistics; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Understanding how the genome is regulated: a gateway to understanding developmental and disease mechanisms at a molecular level

Christina Kendziorski

Christina Kendziorski

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development and application of statistical methods for gene mapping and gene expression array studies.

Pamela Kreeger

Pamela Kreeger

Biomedical Engineering

Systems biology, ovarian cancer, endocrine signaling.

Jason Kwan

Jason Kwan

School of Pharmacy

Targeted drug discovery; analysis of complex communities of uncultured microorganisms

Carol Lee

Carol Lee

Integrative Biology; Centert of Rapid Evolution

Analysis of evolutionary responses to catastrophic environmental change.

Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis

Biomolecular Chemistry; WID

Chromatin dynamics influence on gene expression during mammalian development and tumorigenesis.

Megan McClean

Megan McClean

Biomedical Engineering

Biological signal processing: signal specificity; determination of in vivo kinetics; transcription factor regulation; controllability.

Katherine McMahon

Katherine McMahon

Bacteriology; Environmental Engineering

Microbial ecology of both natural and engineered systems

Peter Muir

Peter Muir

Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Comparative genomics of dogs and horses, investigating mechanisms that influence site-specific ligament and tendon degeneration, as well as late-onset polyneuropathy

Muhammed Murtaza

Muhammed Murtaza

Surgery

Analysis of circulating and cell-free tumor DNA and RNA for providing insights Into tumor genomes

Michael Newton

Michael Newton

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Developing statistical methods to address problems with the comparison of expression arrays.

Sean Palecek

Sean Palecek

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Cellular engineering, intracellular signal transduction, cell and protein biosensors.

Bret Payseur

Bret Payseur

Genetics

Population genetic processes that determine patterns and levels of variation throughout the genome, including natural selection, recombination, and mutations.

Francisco Pelegri

Francisco Pelegri

Genetics

Analysis of cellular and developmental genetics in early vertebrate embryonic development and determination of the germ line

Caitlin Pepperell

Caitlin Pepperell

Medical Microbiology & Immunology; Medicine

Force that shape evolution of human pahogens; influence of infection diseases on human evolution; effect of environment on population level patterns of infectious disease.

Nicole Perna

Nicole Perna

Genetics

Genome scale comparative analysis to identify the genetic elements that distinguish one complete genome from another.

Brian Pfleger

Brian Pfleger

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology, protein engineering, natural products.

John Pool

John Pool

Genetics

New inference methods for population genomic sequence data; genetic basis of parallel melanic evolution in Drosophila.

Aaron Ragsdale

Aaron Ragsdale

Integrative Biology

Population genetics, applied math, and human history

Srivatsan Raman

Srivatsan Raman

Biochemistry

Systems and synthetic biology approach to understanding and designing biology at multiple scales - proteins, microbial pathways and microbiota.

Parmesh Ramanathan

Parmesh Ramanathan

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Characterization of the temporal dynamics of networks of gene interactions; longer-term goal, creation of a virtual foundry for genomic circuits.

Federico Rey

Federico Rey

Bacteriology

Gut bacterial metabolism and human health; microbial cross-feeding.

Philip Romero

Philip Romero

Bacteriology

Protein engineering, computational biology, high-throughput technology

Sushmita Roy

Sushmita Roy

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Inference of structure and function of regulatory networks; Comparative analysis of expression modules across species.

Kris Saha

Kris Saha

Biomedical Engineering

Use of human stem cells together with emerging engineering methods in material science and synthetic biology to model human disease and advance personalized medicine.

Steven Schrodi

Steven Schrodi

Genetics

Human genomics of inflammatory diseases, statistical genetics, genetic architecture of diseases

David C. Schwartz

David C. Schwartz

GSTP Program Director
Chemistry / Genetics

Chemistry and biology of single molecule systems with applications to genomic sciences.

Eric Shusta

Eric Shusta

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Development of an in vitro model of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB);analysis of membrane proteome of the BBB.

Ahna Skop

Ahna Skop

Genetics

Cytokinesis and cell cycle proteomics.

Lloyd Smith

Lloyd Smith

Chemistry

Development and application of novel methods and approaches for the analysis and manipulation of biomolecules.

Andre Sousa

Andre Sousa

Neuroscience

Development of new algorithms for genomic analysis across species; analysis of human brain development and evolution

Rupa Sridharan

Rupa Sridharan

Cell & Regenerative Biology

Epigenetics of cell fate change.

Garret Suen

Garret Suen

Bacteriology

Rumen microbiology; herbivore-associated microbial ecology; metagenomics; biofuels.

Michael Sussman

Michael Sussman

Biochemistry

Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana.

Ophelia Venturelli

Ophelia Venturelli

Biochemistry

Evolutionary design principles of biomolecular networks and ecologies and engineering of feedback control systems.

Ramya Korlakai Vinayek

Ramya Korlakai Vinayek

Biochemistry

Machine Learning, Statistical Inference, and Crowdsourcing

Donna Werling

Donna Werling

Genetics

Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease

Brian Yandell

Brian Yandell

Statistics

Statistical genomics; theoretical statistics; applications in selected areas of agriculture.

John Yin

John Yin

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Developing experimental and theoretical approaches to study growth, adaptation, and inactivation of viruses.

Daifeng Wang

Daifeng Wang

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Waisman Center

Developmentof machine learning approaches and bioinformatics tools to analyze multimodal data in complex brains and brain disorders

Mostafa Zamanian

Mostafa Zamanian

Pathobiological Sciences

Neglected diseases and pathogens