2023 News and Events
Miller Wins Walsh Research Travel Award for 2023
Dr. Andrew Miller, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Raunak Sinha’s lab, will attend the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington, D.C., thanks to the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund. This award provides support …
Zhao Lab Finds that Fragile X Syndrome Begins Before Birth
Dr. Xinyu Zhao, Professor of Neuroscience, and four postdoctoral fellows in her lab – Minjie Shen, Carissa Sirois, Yu (Kristy) Guo, and Meng Li – have found that FMRP, a protein deficient in individuals with …
Hoth Wins at the UW Cardiovascular Research Summit
Annabelle Hoth, an undergraduate mentored by Dr. Lisandra Flores-Aldama in the Robertson lab, won First Prize for Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the 2023 UW Cardiovascular Research Summit! Congratulations, Annabelle!
Robertson Lab Published in PNAS
Congratulations to Margaret B. Jameson, Erick B. Ríos-Pérez, Fang Liu, Catherine A. Eichel, and Gail A. Robertson on a successful publication to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal …
Sousa Receives 2023 Krieg Cortical Kudos Explorer Award
Congratulations to Dr. Andre Sousa for winning the 2023 Krieg Cortical Kudos Explorer Award. The award is presented by the Cajal Club, in recognition of Dr. Sousa’s “outstanding contribution to our understanding of human brain …
Flores-Aldama Receives MOSAIC K99/R00 Award
Dr. Lisandra Flores-Aldama is the recent recipient of a MOSAIC K99/R00 award from NHLBI that will support her postdoc in the Robertson lab and transition to her first faculty position in the future. Congratulations, …
Chapman Reappointed As Ricardo Meledi Prof. of Neuroscience
Congratulations to Dr. Edwin Chapman for his five-year reappointment as the Ricardo Miledi Professor of Neuroscience. This endowed professorship is administered through the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
New Paper for Zhao Lab
The lab of Dr. Xinyu Zhao has put out a new paper in Nature Communications, titled “Elevated levels of FMRP-target MAP1B impair human and mouse neuronal development and mouse social behaviors via autophagy pathway.” Guo, …
X. Huang Receives Research Forward Grant
Dr. Xin Huang (Dept. of Neuroscience) has been selected to receive a Research Forward Grant for a project titled “Record the Activity of Genetically Identified Neurons Using Calcium Imaging.” This is a collaborative effort among …
Sousa to Receive Brain Research Foundation Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Andre Sousa (Dept. of Neuroscience & Waisman Center) for being selected as a recipient of a seed grant from the Brain Research Foundation (BRF). Founded in 1981, BRF’s Seed Grant Program provides …
Zhao Receives 2023 Kellett Mid-Career Award
Dr. Xinyu Zhao (Dept. of Neuroscience & the Waisman Center) was selected to receive a Kellett Mid-Career Award. This prestigious award is named in honor of William R. Kellett, a WARF Trustee and President of …
Ed Chapman featured in SMPH Quarterly Magazine
Dr. Ed Chapman was recently featured in an article by David Tenenbaum in the SMPH Quarterly magazine, Volume 25 No. 1. The article focuses on Chapman’s work with neurotransmitters, his Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) …
Uhlrich Wins 2023 Dean’s Teaching Award
Dr. Dan Uhlrich has been awarded the 2023 Dean’s Teaching Award, which will be presented at the Medical Education Day program on June 1st, 2023. These awards recognize excellence and innovation in medical education. Each …
Jackson Awarded Distinguished Honors Faculty Award
Dr. Meyer Jackson was recently chosen as one of the 2023 Distinguished Honors Faculty Award recipients. Congratulations, Meyer! Each year, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members whom Honors students have valued …
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2022
Ben Meltzer Joins Neuroscience Administration
The Department of Neuroscience would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest administrator, Ben Meltzer. Ben will be our new Grants Manager for pre- and post-award following Sue Krey’s upcoming retirement. Welcome, Ben!
Zhao and Sousa Awarded SFARI Grant
The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) has selected the project of Drs. Xinyu Zhao (Neuroscience), Qiang Chang (Medical Genetics and Neurology), Daifeng Wang (Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Computer Sciences), and Andre Sousa (Neuroscience) as …
Chapman receives HHMI Renewal
Dr. Edwin Chapman, Professor of Neuroscience, received notice that his appointment as a Howard Hughes Investigator has been renewed for a seven-year term. Chapman received an “A” score. Please join us in congratulating him on …
Tom Yin Honored At WMAA Awards Banquet
Emeritus Tom C.T. Yin received a Basic Sciences Emeritus Faculty Award category at the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association banquet. This award is given to a basic scientist who demonstrates long and effective service to the …
Rosenberg Lab’s Lillian Li Receives McPherson ERI-Sponsored Hilldale Undergraduate Award
Congratulations to Lillian Li from Dr. Ari Rosenberg‘s lab in the Department of Neuroscience! Lillian was awarded the 2022 McPherson Eye Research Institute-Sponsored Hilldale Undergraduate Award for her proposal, “Biologically Inspired Convolutional Neural Networks for …
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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 …
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 …
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2021
Chapman and Vevea Published in eLife
Dr. Jason Vevea and Dr. Ed Chapman, along with collaborators, were recently published in eLife on their work with Synaptotagmin 7 (SYT7). This paper, titled “Synaptotagmin 7 is targeted to the axonal plasma membrane through …
Jackson Awarded 2022 Sir Bernard Katz Award
Dr. Meyer Jackson has been chosen as the 2022 Sir Bernard Katz Award for excellence in research on exocytosis and endocytosis! Meyer Jackson, Professor in the Neuroscience department at UW-Madison, has been chosen as the …
Fettiplace Interviewed by WORT
Our very own Dr. Robert Fettiplace was recently interviewed by the radio station WORT (89.9 FM). Joined by host Patrick Sajbel, Dr. Fettiplace discussed the science of the innermost working of ears and how they …
Gomez Published in Nature Communications
Dr. Timothy Gomez and colleagues recently had an article, “RHOA signaling defects result in impaired axon guidance in iPSC-derived neurons from patients with tuberous sclerosis complex,” published in Nature Communications. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is …
Sirois Receives 2021 SCRMC Training Award
Carissa Sirois, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Xinyu Zhao, has been awarded a postdoctoral training award from the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center (SCRMC). The SCRMC Research Training Awards were established in …
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