Spencer Halberg of Sushmita Roy’s lab is co-first author on a paper titled “A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen” that was published in Nucleic …
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AI News: Christina Kendziorski’s lab reports new multi-agent LLM for cell annotation
BMI Professor Christina Kendziorski and her lab report CASSIA, a new multi-agent large language model for automated and interpretable cell annotation in Nature Communications. Large-language models have potential to improve cell annotation, but face challenges, …
Former BMI Chair, Paul Rathouz, Passed Away
This post bears the sad news that Paul Rathouz, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, surrounded by family. Paul served as BMI …
D. Wang and T. Lu – New Algorithm to Advance Neurodevelopmental Research
Drs. Daifeng Wang and Tianyuan Lu, and their students, along with Wang Lab alumnus Jerome Choi, PhD, developed a new machine learning algorithm called COSIME, which was published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The manuscript is …
Sushmita Roy Helping Understand Genomes Fit into a Cell Nucleus
Professor Sushmita Roy and Da-Inn Lee developed a computational method called Tree-Guided Integrated Factorization (TGIF), a new mathematical model of DNA folding. Learn more about it: https://research.wisc.edu/uncategorized/2025/09/04/research-news-roundup-2/
Daifeng Wang awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Daifeng for receiving an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, a major campus honor awarded in recognition of Daifeng’s outstanding academic accomplishments. This award includes a $60,000 flexible research fund to support his research efforts. …
Kwangmoon Park wins 2025 ICSA Student Travel Award
Congratulations to Kwangmoon Park (advised by Sunduz Keles) on winning a 2025 International Chinese Statistical Association Student Travel Award for his paper titled “Systematic Background Selection for Enhanced Contrastive Dimension Reduction.” Kwangmoon will present the …
Andreas Velten Startup Named First Round Draft Pick by TitletownTech
Congratulations to Andreas Velten and CEO Sebastian Bauer (former BMI postdoc with Andreas) for the recognition of Ubicept’s, a startup focused on computer vision, contributions by TitletownTech. TitletownTech is a collaboration between the Green Bay …
Special Seminar with Bryan Plummer
Reproducibility Training Initiatives Seminar – Tuesday, Feb 18
The Stanford CTSA Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR) will host a discussion on Reproducibility Training Initiatives on Tuesday, Feb 18, at 11 am central time. Reproducibility Rounds Flyer) Registration Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/xJPujcCSRr2mOULoWBd5yg#/registration.