Department News

2019 Holiday Party and Dr. Kalil’s Retirement

The Department of Neuroscience wrapped up a fantastic year on December 12th by celebrating our departmental accomplishments, as well as wishing Dr. Kate Kalil the best in her retirement. Thank you to all who attended! …

Moore Profiled as Rising Star in Neuroscience by The Scientist

Assistant Professor Dr. Darcie Moore was recently published in the eBook, “Rising Stars in Neuroscience: Profiles of eight up-and-coming scientists looking to push boundaries and tread new paths in neuroscience research,” by The Scientist.  Dr. …

Chapman Published Again in Nature Communications

Ed Chapman and colleagues were recently published in Nature Communications for their work on message transfer regulation between mammal neurons. Specifically, Chapman describes a key component of the system — the “clamp” — that prevents …

Chapman Published in Nature Communications

Ed Chapman, professor of Neuroscience and HHMI investigator, and colleagues recently published in Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Article number: 3532 (2019), their work on synaptotagmin 17 (syt-17). Synaptotagmins (syt) are generally thought to regulate exocytosis …

Zhao Receives FRAXA Research Grant

FRAXA Research Foundation has awarded a $90,000 research grant to principal investigator Dr. Xinyu Zhao and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Minjie Shen at the University of Wisconsin. They are investigating whether drugs that boost mitochondria could …

Cynthia Czajkowski Named UW–Madison’s Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Biological Sciences

Holiday Party 2017

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iPS Stem Cells: Research Discoveries One Decade After Breakthrough

In his UW-Madison lab, Su-Chun Zhang discovered a likely cause of ALS, the deadly neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after turning skin cells from ALS patients into stem cells. The research is …

Graduate Student Nadia Khan Receives D-SPAN Award

Roopra Lab graduate student, Nadia Khan, receives NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award. Nadia Khan, a Ph.D. candidate in cellular and molecular biology and member of the Roopra Lab, …

Former Graduate Student Named Hanna Grey Fellow

Former Chapman Lab graduate student, Chantell Evans, named Hanna Grey Fellow Chantell Evans, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and former member of the Chapman Lab, …

Fettiplace Awarded the 2019 Passano Prize

Dr. Robert Fettiplace has been awarded the 2019 Passano Prize. Since 1945 the Passano Foundation has annually given an award for “endeavors with clinical applications” through Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical …

Gail Robertson to Receive 2019 Kenneth S. Cole Award

Dr. Gail A. Robertson will receive the 2019 Kenneth S. Cole Award from the Biophysical Society. The selection committee writes that “Gail embodies the spirit and intent of the Cole Award, and is recognized for …

Donata Oertel Elected as AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected Dr. Donata Oertel from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Oertel, Neuroscience Professor and Mary Herman and Lucien Rubinstein Distinguished Chair of …

Moore Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Darcie Moore is the recipient of an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for High-Risk, High-Reward Research. Her project is titled “The Mechanisms and Functional Role of the Asymmetric Segregation of Cellular Cargoes in Stem Cells.” …

Chapman Wins Pew Innovation Fund Award

The Pew Charitable Trust announced that Dr. Ed Chapman, Professor of Neuroscience in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of a dozen leading “Innovation Fund” researchers who will collaborate …