Mission
Solving the biological problems of the 21st century through genomic technologies combined with information sciences.
Lloyd M. Smith, Director
In 1998 the Genome Center of Wisconsin (GCW) was established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Genome Center, located at 425 Henry Mall, is a research center existing within the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center.
The Genome Center's 42 faculty members represent over 17 departments and six schools within the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Genome Center fosters integrative and highly collaborative research that bridges multiple, diverse disciplines. Faculty members are involved in genomic research, graduate and undergraduate teaching, and pre- and post-doctoral training.
In September 2004, GCW faculty and members moved into state-of-the-art laboratories and office space designed to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations working to create solutions to biological problems raised by genome data. There are four main divisions of study under genomics, which are Genome Sequencing, Functional Genomics, Comparative Genomics, and Bioinformatics.
Current News:
November 19, 2009 - Genome Center Member, David Schwartz, one of more than 100 authors to be part of a pulication in Science revealing the genetic instructions inside corn.
November 13, 2009 - Josh Coon from the department of Chemistry accepts Full Membership to the Genome Center of Wisconsin.
October 14 , 2009 - Corinne Engelman from the department of Population Health Sciences accepts Affiliate Membership to the Genome Center of Wisconsin.
October 7 , 2009 - Genome Center Member, Jamie Thomson, one of 18 teams of research scientists is awarded a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for Stem Cell Research
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2009/nhlbi-07.html
September 28, 2009 - The Genome Center of Wisconsin Director, Lloyd Smith, and Michael Olivier, from the Medical College of Wisconsin, to co-direct a three-year Centers of Excellence in the Genomic Sciences grant.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/mcow-wco092809.php
August 30,2009 - Genome Center member, Nicole Perna, is awarded a USDA grant with Robin Buell of Michigan State University, Improving the value of plant pathogen genome sequences through uniform, updated and value-added annotation.
June 22, 2009 - Genome Center member, Nicole Perna, is awarded an NSF Assembling the Tree of Life grant, which includes Genome Center member, Colin Dewey, entitled Assembling a taxonomically balanced genome-scale reconstruction of the evolutionary history of Enterobacteriaceae.
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0936214