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January 2025: Data Science Research Bazaar, Cores Leadership and Management Course

Contents

  • Data Science Research Bazaar
  • Course on Leadership and Management in Core Facilities
  • Core Highlight
  • Question of the Month
  • Shout-outs

 

Present Your Work at the Data Science Research Bazaar

Showcase your work at the Data Science Research Bazaar, March 19-20 at the Discovery Building! The Research Bazaar welcomes submissions for lightning talks, posters, workshops, and interactive discussions. This year’s theme is AI and ML in Research: Navigating Opportunities and Boundaries. While AI and machine learning will be a key focus, submissions from all areas of data science and computational work are encouraged. Learn more and apply by January 15.

 

Course on Leadership and Management in Core Facilities 

How to meet the unique challenges of operating in a university setting

Running a core facility successfully requires both a strong set of business management skills and deep insights into the nuances of leadership in a university setting. This four-day executive learning experience focuses specifically on helping you enhance your business and management skills and developing the leadership capacity to run your operation more effectively.

In this hands-on program, you’ll expand your knowledge and learn new approaches to leadership as you practice applying them to a challenge in your own organization. You’ll develop a team orientation that will enable you to engage your teams more effectively. You’ll leave this program with a deep understanding of your individual strengths and how to leverage them to meet difficult challenges and seize new opportunities.

 

Core Highlight

Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Tissue Culture Laboratory

The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Tissue Culture Laboratory produces seed stock for approximately 90% of the publicly available varieties of seed potato growers in Wisconsin. The potato tissue culture laboratory is part of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and housed in the UW-Madison Biotron building.

Each year, thousands of tissue culture plantlets derived from potato tubers are sent to the Lelah Stark Elite Foundation Seed Potato Farm. The plantlets are placed into potting mix or a hydroponic system to grow minitubers. The following year, these tubers are multiplied in the field and then sold to Wisconsin seed potato growers.

The purpose of the potato tissue culture laboratory is to:

  • Provide healthy planting stocks to the Lelah Starks Farm, potato farmers, and researchers.
  • Maintain and revive a comprehensive collection of commercial potato varieties in tissue culture.
  • Perform pathogen testing on grower samples to help them stay in compliance with state, national, and international seed potato certification standards.
  • Perform research focused on improving potato tissue culture growth to benefit the WSPCP.
  • Perform outreach activities such as lab tours, training, and presentations on current research.

Visit the Research Core Directory page for more information including resources and services offered.

 

Question of the Month!

We need your feedback!  Please fill out the 1 question survey below: “What system(s) do you use for data storage and what challenges do you face?”

 

Shout-outs

The Center for Biomedical Swine Research & Innovation would like to recognize its Research Specialists, Paige Munns and Ashley Nelson for outstanding work! Paige and Ashley have both gone above and beyond in their roles, taking initiatives on projects, increasing efficiency and fostering productive relationships with the researchers we serve. They have received commendations from several of our clients and we’re lucky to have them staffing our procedure team!

Want to thank or recognize a core staff member who went above and beyond to support your research or the research of a core user? Email Sarah Brodnick (skkorinek@wisc.edu) with the individual’s name and a sentence or two about why they deserve a shout-out. Shout-outs will also be posted at https://research.wisc.edu/research-cores/research-resources-reporter/.

 

Research Resources Reporter is the email newsletter of the Office of Campus Research Cores in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education.