Author: lrrowley

Waisman Biomanufacturing to be part of UW-Madison partnership in $20 million cell-based therapy center

Waisman Biomanufacturing and Waisman affiliate investigators Randolph Ashton and Krishanu Saha will be part of a new engineering research center that will develop transformative tools and technologies for the consistent, scalable and low-cost production of high-quality living therapeutic cells. Such cells could be used in a broad range of life-saving medical therapies now emerging from …

Andrew Alexander, PhD

Mapping White Matter Microstructure in the One Month Human Brain Legend: Matched coronal and axial slices through the of the population averaged diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) parameters (Left). Gestation corrected age relationships of fractional anisotropy (FA), radial diffusivity (RD) and neurite density (νIC) for left hemisphere white …

New faculty focus: Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick

A Q&A with new Waisman Center investigator Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick. How did you get into your field of research? Like many people who pursue social work degrees, I always knew that I wanted to spend my career helping others. Although I first volunteered with children with autism when I was 15, it was not until I took …

WSJ: With autism diagnoses on the rise, parents sort through treatment options

As rates of autism diagnoses rise across the country, children with autism and their parents also have increasing options for therapy and treatments. The Wisconsin State Journal highlights the Waisman Center Autism Treatment Programs, and other options, for children and families with autism. To read the story, please click here.    

Waisman Biomanufacturing has new managing director

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, the primary mission of Waisman Biomanufacturing is to help UW scientists and others efficiently translate scientific discoveries into early-stage clinical …

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD

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 in culture. Phalloidin staining (upper panels) and unbiased computer-driven reconstruction (lower panels) of both WT and AT-1 Tg neurons (A …

Xinyu Zhao, PhD

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 mouse brains express immature neuron marker doublecortin (DCX, green). Middle: A schematic of the experimental design for single-cell transcriptome analysis. Right: Enrichment …

Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD

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 signal above threshold ± S.D. C) Average proportion of field of view traveled by calcium wave. D) Rate of calcium …

Version 26.0.0.151 of Adobe Flash Player

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.

Houri Vorperian, PhD

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.