Please report upcoming events to: rowley@waisman.wisc.edu • Also See: | Community Training Calendar | Children's Theatre |
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Upcoming Events:

September 18, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Jenny Saffran, PhD, “Beyond Nature Versus Nurture: Changing Views of Infant Language Acquisition”

September 25, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Craig Berridge, PhD, "The Pharmacology of ADHD and Cognitive Enhancement:  Psychostimulants and the Prefrontal Cortex"

October 2, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Nancy Ratner, PhD, "Timing and Tumorigenesis in Neurofibromatosis"

October 16, 2009
Mayor Paul Memorial Lecture—Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD, “Exploring the Role of White Matter in Thinking and Language Skills: Studies of Children Born Prematurely”

October 23, 2009
Terrence R. Dolan Lecture—Ralph Adolphs, PhD, “The Social Neuroscience of Face Perception”

October 30, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Isaac Pessah, PhD, "Gene x Environment Interactions contributing to Autism:  Lessons Learned from the UC Davis Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention."

November 6, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Shan Ping Yu, MD, PhD, "Combination Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy for Ischemic Stroke"

November 13, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Ellen Carpenter, PhD, "Some Like It Hox: Transcription Factors and Spinal Cord Patterning"

December 4, 2009
Wiley Seminar Series—Adam Gamoran, PhD Topic:  Studying social capital and the educational process

January 29, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Katherine Magnuson, PhD, Topic: Effects of poverty and socioeconomic status on children and family well-being

February 5, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Jeff Golden, MD, "Deciphering One Pathway to Intellectual Disabilities"

February 12, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Martha Alibali, PhD, "Gestures, Languages, and Mathematical Reasoning in Children"

February 19, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Mark H. Lewis, PhD Topic:  Restricted, Repetitive Behavior in Autism

March 5, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Eric Klann, PhD Topic: Molecular mechanisms of learning and memory.

April 9, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Bruce Baker, PhD, Topic: Findings from the Collaborative Family Study: Behavior Problems and Developmental Disabilities

April 16, 2010
Harry A. Waisman Memorial Lecture—Nathan Fox, PhD, "Thinking about the effects of early experience on brain and behavior: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project"

April 23, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Carolyn B. Mervis, PhD, Topic: Language and cognitive development of children with Williams syndrome

May 7, 2010
Wiley Seminar Series—Yang Shi, PhD, Topic: Epigenetic regulation and its role in human diseases

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