2025 News and Events
Dr. Xin Huang and Trainee Bikalpa Ghimire receive McPherson Eye Research Institute GSSI award
The McPherson Eye Research Institute has awarded Associate Professor, Dr. Xin Huang, and graduate student, Bikalpa Ghimire, the 5th annual David G. Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) award. Funded by David G. Walsh Research …
Roopra Lab Discovers Arthritis Drug Provides Effective Epilepsy Treatment in Mice
Postdoctoral researcher, Olivia Hoffman, Ph.D., and Professor, Avtar Roopra, Ph.D., found that brief treatment with a drug typically prescribed for arthritis enduringly halts seizures in epileptic mice long after treatment is stopped. The drug, called …
Wang Zheng Joins Neuroscience Faculty
The Department of Neuroscience would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty member, Dr. Wang Zheng. Zheng received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Alberta. He then was a post-doctoral …
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2024
Holiday Party 2024
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Jon Levine’s Leadership and Legacy
This interview was conducted by Jordana Lenon, retired Communications and Outreach Program Manager at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. To read the original article, click here. Dr. Jon Levine, Department of Neuroscience Professor, stepped …
Dent and X. Huang Receive UW-Madison Fall Research Competition Award
Associate Professor Xin Huang, and Professor and Department Vice Chair Erik Dent, received awards from the Fall 2024 Research Competition. This competition plays an important role in supporting graduate student training and providing funding to …
Sinha Awarded RPB Career Advancement Award
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is pleased to announce that Raunak Sinha, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health has been granted a $150,000 RPB Career Advancement Award to support …
Dent One of 10 Winners in UW-Madison Cool Science Image Contest
Dr. Erik Dent was one of ten winners in UW-Madison’s 14th Annual Cool Science Image Contest. A panel that included artists, science communicators, and scientists chose images based on the aesthetic, creative, and scientific qualities …
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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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2023
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 …
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