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  2. Year: 2017
  3. Month: August

Month: August 2017

Waisman Biomanufacturing has new managing director

Posted on August 31, 2017

Carl Ross has been selected to serve as managing director of Waisman Biomanufacturing. His appointment started July 1, following more than a year as its interim director. Located at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Waisman Center, …

Posted in 2017, Awards and Honors, News, Waisman Biomanufacturing, YearTagged Carl Ross, Waisman Biomanufacturing

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD

Posted on August 28, 2017

Increased expression of AT-1/SLC33A1 causes an autistic-like phenotype in mice by affecting dendritic branching and spine formation Legend: AT-1 Tg animals display changes in neuronal morphology and imbalanced synaptic plasticity. (A-D)  Morphological assessment of hippocampal neurons …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Luigi Puglielli, Slide of the Week

Xinyu Zhao, PhD

Posted on August 21, 2017

Integrative Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal Molecular Networks Defining Neuronal Maturation during Postnatal Neurogenesis Legend: Left: An illustration of coronal section of Nissl-stained adult mouse brain; Confocal images showing that most of DsRed+ (red) cells in DCX-dsRed …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Slide of the Week, Stem Cells, Xinyu Zhao

Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD

Posted on August 14, 2017

Alexander disease patient astrocytes have impaired calcium wave propagation Legend: A) Still images over time from mechanical stimulation of 6-month astrocytes loaded with Fluor-4AM and accompanying post-experiment GFAP stains. B) Average duration of increased calcium …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Alexander disease, GFAP, Slide of the Week, Su-Chun Zhang

Version 26.0.0.151 of Adobe Flash Player

Posted on August 10, 2017

Version 26.0.0.151 of Adobe Flash Player is being rolled out to Waisman PCs today. Ask us or ask Adobe which version you are using.

Posted in IT News

Houri Vorperian, PhD

Posted on August 7, 2017

We present a registration-based semi-automatic mandible segmentation (SAMS) pipeline designed to process a large number of computed tomography studies to segment three dimensional (3D) mandibles.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Houri Vorperian, Slide of the Week

The chatter within our cells

Posted on August 3, 2017

Waisman Center investigator Luigi Puglielli had trouble with only one class in medical school: biochemistry. Yet today he uses biochemical approaches to study some of the vital molecular mechanisms that regulate brain physiology and pathology …

Posted in 2017, Alzheimer’s Disease, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Neurodegenerative, News, Research, YearTagged Acetylation, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, Luigi Puglielli, Spastic paraplegia

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