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2024

  • Holiday Party 2024

    See the photo gallery here.

  • 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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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 …

  • Xinyu Zhao

    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!

  • Gail Robertson - Photo credit: Bobbie Harte, 2019.

    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 …

  • Dr. Andre MM Sousa Headshot

    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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