UW-Madison Genetics

Congratulations to Dr Jake Brunkard for winning the CALS Alfred Toepfer Faculty Fellow Award!

"Genetic Symphonies: The Building Hox of Life", the interactive exhibit created by graduate students Katharine Hubert and Sharon Tang was highlighted in InsideUW and WID News.

Read more about the exhibit and the artists behind it at

Genetic Symphonies: The Building Hox of Life The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows are proud to announce the opening of the “Genetic Symphonies: The Building Hox of Life” exhibit, currently located at the UW–Madison Genetics Department. Graduate…

Graduate students Katharine Hubert and Sharon Tang created a new interactive exhibit on Hox genes!

The exhibit is currently displayed at the Genetics Atrium and invites viewers to engage with the installation through a control podium by using buttons to activate music and lights simultaneously. When the buttons are pressed in the correct order it will simulate the activation of the corresponding Hox gene group on the display panel. Press all 13 buttons correctly, and an elegant symphony will play and reveal a silhouetted human figure in the panel.

Read more at https://genetics.wisc.edu/2023/09/08/interactive-exhibit-on-hox-genes-displayed-at-the-atrium/