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2020 News & Events

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  Fettiplace Named Recipient of the 2020 Horwitz Prize

  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 …

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  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 …

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  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 …

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  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 …

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  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 …

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  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 …

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  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!

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  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 …

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  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, …

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  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 …

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  Zhao and Colleagues Published in Genome Research

  Xinyu Zhao, PhD, and Waisman Center colleagues Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD, and research associate Meng Li, published their paper “Identification of FMR1-regulated molecular networks in human neurodevelopment” in the March issue of the journal Genome Research. …

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  Shen Receives 2nd Year Renewal of FRAXA Fellowship

  Congratulations to Dr. Minjie Shen, postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Xinyu Zhao, who received a second year renewal of a highly competitive postdoctoral fellowship from Fragile X Research Foundation (FRAXA). Fragile X is …

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  Chapman Published, Yet Again, in Nature Communications

  Dr. Ed Chapman and colleagues in the Chapman Lab were once again published in Nature Communications. Their new paper, Resolving kinetic intermediates during the regulated assembly and disassembly of fusion pores, discusses findings on key …

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  Moore Published in Cell Stem Cell

  Department of Neuroscience scientists headed by Assistant Professor Dr. Darcie Moore were recently published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The study, Vimentin Coordinates Protein Turnover at the Aggresome during Neural Stem Cell Quiescence Exit, …

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  Emeritus Professor Tom C.T. Yin to Receive Award of Merit

  The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Awards Committee has chosen our very own Dr. Tom C.T. Yin to be next year’s recipient of the Award of Merit. The Association for Research in Otolaryngology is …

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  Sinha Named McPherson ERI’s David and Nancy Walsh Family Professor in Vision Research

  Dr. Raunak Sinha has been named McPherson Eye Research Institute’s David and Nancy Walsh Family Professor in Vision Research for a two-year term. This Professorship provides funding in support of his cutting-edge work on the …

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  Roopra to be Awarded Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award

  Dr. Avtar Roopra will be granted one of the Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards, recognizing research and teaching excellence. Congratulations, Avtar!

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  Vevea to Receive 2nd Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Distinguished Scholars Fellowship

  Jason Vevea, a postdoc in Dr. Ed Chapman’s lab, has been selected as one of 5 awardees of the 2nd annual Warren Alpert Foundation Distinguished Scholars Fellowship. The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars is a program …

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  Rosenberg Selected for Vilas Associates Award

  Dr. Ari Rosenberg has been selected for a Vilas Associates Award. Congratulations, Ari! The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional …

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