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 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.

Tutorials are available on line from the The Biochemistry Computational Research Facility (BCRF.)

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.

Previously, Dr. Kristen Malecki was an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Twitter: @uwsmph.) She has a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology and Health Policy and Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her previous 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.