About the authors
Jean-Yves Sgro, a senior scientist with years of experience in using and teaching computer programs, creates, organizes and teaches hands on workshops.
Jean-Yves Sgro, a senior scientist with years of experience in using and teaching computer programs, creates, organizes and teaches the workshops.
Jean-Yves has been at UW since 1986 after a Master in Physiology and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, and researched at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where he already used large computers for sequence analysis.
In Madison, at the Institute for Molecular Virology (IMV) he continued developing computer expertise in addition to his wet-lab research – 3D molecular visualization (virusworld), RNA-folding predictions, sequence and data analysis…
In 1996 he joined the UW Biotechnology Center to better help Campus biologists analyze and visualize their data while continuing research at IMV until 2014 when this part-time position was transferred to the Biochemistry Department where he organizes and teaches hands-on tutorials on molecular graphics, data analysis as a support to the department personnel.
Hist tutorials are available on line from the The Biochemistry Computational Research Facility (BCRF.)
Jean-Yves also volunteers as an instructor for the Carpentries global community data science workshops.
Summary: Kristen Malecki is Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences58 and Director and PI of Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)59
Her research interests are: Environmental health, epidemiology, survey research methods, metabolic health and immune function, epigenetics, microbiome and applied public health practice.
Bio:
In June 2022 Dr. Kristen Malecki has joined the University of Chicago School of Public Health (Twitter: @uicpublichealth) as the new director of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
Her current bio at UIC:
Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), School of Public Health, where she also serves as the EOHS Division Director. She has a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology and Health Policy and Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was recently appointed to the National Academies of Sciences standing committee on the “Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions.” She uses a multi-omic approach to examine combined chemical (air pollution, water pollution), physical and social stressors, and their influence on adult chronic disease, aging and health disparities.) As a member of the Molecular Environmental Toxicology Center, her transdisciplinary work uses epigenetics, transcriptomics in both human and animals studies of the gut microbiome and to identify interim biomarkers of exposure and response to improve understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying persistent health disparities.
She also serves as the Principal Investigator for a number of community-academic partnerships and is committed to advancing urban and rural health equity. She also maintains longstanding partnerships with colleagues at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services which has facilitated a breadth of applied public health initiatives. Before becoming an academic, she served as the lead epidemiologist for the State of Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. In these roles she gained extensive experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in development of new approaches to addressing environmental and occupational health challenges.
Previously, Dr. Kristen Malecki was an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Twitter: @uwsmph.)
Her previous UW-Madison bio stated*:
Dr. Malecki serves as the co-director for the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), overseeing survey implementation efforts and ancillary study development. She has been a leader in the development and evaluation of indicators for environmental health risk assessment and policy. Dr. Malecki also works to bridge applied public health practice with academic research focusing on environmental health and health disparities using a social determinants of health model. She recently served as Principal Investigator for the Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council project addressing vulnerability among private well owners in Wisconsin. Her current research is also focused on developing models to examine combined chemical (air pollution, water pollution), physical and social stressors and influence on adult chronic disease, childhood development and obesity. She is a member of the University of Wisconsin National Institute for Environmental Health Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (coordinating center). Her transdisciplinary work includes identification of biomarkers of expression and response using epigenetics and transcriptomics. She also serves as the Principal Investigator for a number of SHOW ancillary studies involving community-academic partnerships.
Before coming to the UW she served as the lead epidemiologist for the state Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. In these roles she has gained extensive experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in development of environmental health surveillance and epidemiologic data for addressing chronic diseases and disparities in the State of Wisconsin and the nation.
Her teaching interests and experience spans from environmental health to survey research methods and applied public health practice.