Gene editing ethics, featured "WIDites", and more

News from WID

WID’s Krishanu Saha and colleagues J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Sheila Jasanoff write for Scientific American about germ line editing and the need for more scientific and moral clarity.

Meet our Featured "WIDites"

Throughout the year, we will introduce you to some of the people behind WID's discoveries as part of our celebration of ten years of discovery. Follow along on Twitter and at wid.wisc.edu/10. Here, we introduce you to our featured WIDites from the month of January:

Amanda Hurley

Postdoctoral Associate, Handelsman Lab

"I'm discovering unique interactions within a microbiome that influence microbial community function. We see behavior in microbial communities that cannot be predicted from pairwise interactions — time to find those community-specific genes!"

Randolph Ashton

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

"I study neural tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. We are developing novel methods to generate various cells of the central nervous system and meld this with biomaterials to engineering brain and spinal cord tissue morphogenesis in vitro."

Lauren Michael

Research Computing Facilitator, CHTC

"My research interests are very broad, from my formal degrees in Biology, Chemistry, and Biophysics, to a PhD minor and professional experience in science communication, to my current position supporting research computing and leading national projects around the professionalization of research computing career paths."

Karen Schloss

Assistant Professor, Psychology

"My research is in visual reasoning, which is at the interface of perception and cognition in Psychology... We have been building an understanding of how people infer meaning from visual features (e.g., colors)."

Join Us at Events Celebrating
Ten Years of Discovery

February 12:

Illuminating Connections

Join us for a celebration of WID’s hubs with an open house to learn how the hubs can serve campus and the state. The event runs from 3:00 until 6:30 and features a Hub Expo and talks from creative and collaborative scientists. All are welcome.

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March 11:

Speed Science-ing

Join us for a lively evening of science topics for entertainment writers. Three scientists will be your science speed-dates as we explore science topics for the stage, screen, page, and more!

Learn more here.