Columbia University will award the 2020 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists, including our very own Dr. Robert Fettiplace. Fettiplace, along with Dr. A James Hudspeth (HHMI/Rockefeller University) and Dr. Christine Petit (Collège de …
Year: 2020
Postdoc and Graduate Student Awards Recognition
2020 may be a year of new challenges and virtual study, but it is also a year of achievement. We wish to acknowledge the successes of the following members of the department: Margaret Jameson, graduate …
Robertson Named President of the Biophysical Society
Congratulations to our own Gail Robertson! The Biophysical Society members elected Gail Robertson, University of Wisconsin – Madison, to the office of President-Elect in this year’s elections. She will assume that office during the Biophysical …
Zhao Receives Research Core Revitalization Program Funding for Rodent Behavioral Testing Service
The Waisman Center Rodent Behavioral Testing Service (BTS) is the only rodent behavioral testing core on UW-Madison campus. The overarching goal of the BTS is to provide a set of tools to UW-Madison investigators for …
Moore Named 2020 Vallee Scholar
Dr. Darcie Moore has been named one of six 2020 Vallee Scholars from the Vallee Foundation for her research on regulation and movement of proteins during the earliest steps of Adult neurogenesis, when neural stem cells …
Gao & Zhao Published in Cell Reports
Research has shown voluntary running is an activity most commonly associated with the reversal of negative impacts of aging and neurodegeneration, but little is understood about why that is. A new study led by Waisman …
Schoeller Receives Undergraduate Student Award
Keegan Schoeller (UW Biology senior, Zhao Lab) was awarded the prestigious Waisman Center Intellectual Development and Disability Research 2020 Undergraduate Student Award. Congratulations, Keegan!
Morrow and Porter of the Moore Lab Named Winners of Cool Science Image Contest 2020
Congratulations to Neuroscience graduate students Chris Morrow and Tiaira Porter of the Moore lab! Their project, a video capturing the movement of neural stem cells switching from dormancy to activity, was one of twelve projects …
Remembering Dr. Donata Oertel
We are saddened to share that Donata Oertel, PhD, Mary Herman and Lucien Rubinstein Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience, passed away on April 22, 2020. She was a member of the faculty for more than 38 years, …
Chapman Lab Research Featured as Lead Article on HHMI Homepage
Neuroscience Professor and HHMI Investigator Ed Chapman and MD/PhD student Mazdak Bradberry were recently highlighted on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute website for their investigation of Syt1-associated neurodevelopmental disorder – a rare condition that can …