2026 News and Events
Lisa Goldsby Retires January 2026
With a combination of sadness for us, and happiness on her end, we say a farewell to Lisa Goldsby on a well-deserved retirement. Lisa served the Department of Neuroscience for over 14 years, contributing to …
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2025
Rosenberg Awarded Edwin & Dorothy Gamewell Professorship
Department of Neuroscience Professor, Dr. Ari Rosenberg, recently received the Retina Research Foundation Edwin & Dorothy Gamewell Professorship. This professorship is awarded annually to an outstanding member of the UW-Madison McPherson Eye Institute, sponsored by …
Moore Awarded Alzheimer’s Association Grant
Dr. Darcie Moore, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, has been awarded a research grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to perform in vivo live imaging of reactive astrocytes during Alzheimer’s progression in a mouse line. With this …
RISE-THRIVE Research Fellow Morgen VanderGiessen Joins Moore Lab
The Department would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Morgen VanderGiessen, one of eleven UW-Madison distinguished research fellows participating in the RISE-THRIVE program. She will be participating in research with Dr. Darcie Moore, …
David Herzfeld Joins Neuroscience Faculty
The Department of Neuroscience would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty member, Dr. David Herzfeld. Herzfeld received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He then served as a …
Cregg Awarded Parkinson’s Foundation Junior Faculty Award
Jared Cregg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, recently won the Parkinson’s Foundation Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award. The award enables early-career investigators to accelerate their Parkinson’s research programs and build …
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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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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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