The IGB Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) is organizing a monthly working group to facilitate the matching of biological problems to quantitative methods. A preliminary non-exhaustive list of biological topics that we have been planning to discuss is:

- Single-cell and Spatial transcriptomics"
- Biomolecular networks in space and time explored using single-cell biophysics
- Microbiome dynamics and methods for control
- Cancer genomics

The IGB Computational Genomics would like to announce the Spatial Omics Initiative, to bring together researchers from different disciplines across the University of Illinois to enable breakthroughs in genomic biology by developing new ways to embed omics data in space.