Author: lrrowley

James Li awarded the first A.A. Alexander Professorship

James Li, PhD, associate professor of psychology and a Waisman Center investigator, has been awarded the inaugural A.A. Alexander Professorship in recognition of his significant collaborations between the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at UW-Madison.

Krishanu Saha, PhD – Slide of the Week

Biomedical research has been revolutionized by the introduction of many CRISPR-Cas systems that induce programmable edits to nearly any gene in the human genome.

Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week

Title: Toddlers make use of speaker’s genders while listening to words Legend: Toddlers viewed pairs of familiar objects selected to be prototypically male or female. As they listened to words referring to these objects, we tracked their eye gaze. Toddlers were faster to fixate prototypically-gendered objects when they heard a voice from the same gender …

Informe anual: Terapia de grupo del programa de tratamiento del autismo

Un vistazo al nuevo programa de terapia de autismo grupal del Waisman Center Por Emily Leclerc, Escritora Científica, Waisman Center Nota: Lizzie Oster prefiere que se refieran a ella como persona autista en lugar de persona con autismo. El lenguaje de esta pieza refleja esa preferencia. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Oster tenía 16 años cuando fue diagnosticada …

New autism group therapy series changes lives

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Oster was 16 when she was diagnosed with autism. Most autistic people are diagnosed young, typically between the ages of four and five according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and can start treatment and therapy early. For Lizzie, this wasn’t how it went.

Seth Pollak, PhD – Slide of the Week

Learning the value of environmental signals and using that information to guide behavior is critical for survival. Stress in childhood may influence these processes, but how it does so is still unclear.

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week

Endoplasmic reticulum-based Nɛ-lysine acetylation serves as an important protein quality control system for the secretory pathway.

Two Waisman investigators named research professors

Two Waisman investigators were recently awarded a new professor title track at UW-Madison.

Una investigación pionera acerca un paso más un potencial tratamiento contra el Parkinson

English Por: Charlene N. Rivera Bonet, Escritora Científica, Waisman Center Más de dos décadas de investigación fundamental de la enfermedad de Parkinson dirigida por Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD, profesor de neurociencia y neurología en la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison e investigador en Waisman, han culminado en el desarrollo de un tratamiento prometedor basado en células madre. …

Pioneering research brings potential Parkinson’s disease treatment one step closer

Over two decades of fundamental research in Parkinson’s disease led by Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD, professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Waisman investigator, has culminated in the development of a promising stem cell-based treatment for the disease.