Waisman Center @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Learn about advances in research and clinical services and hear from a panel of experts—individuals with Down syndrome and family members.
Past Events
Seminar – Kartik Pattabiraman, MD, PhD – “Making the Right Connection: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Cognitive Circuit Assembly”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Kartik Pattabiraman, MD, PhD Yale University Lab Website About the Speaker: Kartik Pattabiraman, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Yale Child Study Center. He completed his MD and PhD at University of California-San …
Maravillas del Waisman
@ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
La Movida Radio
Fecha: 26 de febrero Título: Invitados: Promo: Un espacio creado por el Waisman Center, Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison para hablar con científicos y proveedores de salud acerca de discapacidades de desarrollo como autismo y síndrome de Down, …
Seminar – Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD – “Understanding Gene x Environment Interactions: The 16p11.2 Neurodevelopmental Mouse Model, Antibiotics, and the Microbiome”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD Rutgers University Profile About the Speaker: Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD, Professor at the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology from Rutgers University, is a child neurologist who studies basic mechanisms of brain development in rodent …
Seminar – Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD – “Evidence for the Contribution of Disrupted Social Motivation to the Emergence of Autism Spectrum Disorder”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Profile About the Speaker: Natasha Marrus is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at the Washington University in St. Louis, where she also received her …
Waisman Center Day with the Experts: Congenital Heart Defects
Waisman Center @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
In-Person and Virtual Saturday, February 7, 2026 Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects, affecting 1% of all babies. Children with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) require heart surgery or other intervention before …
Seminar – Jonathan Soucy, PhD – “Engineering the Retinal Microenvironment to Enable Retinal Ganglion Cell Transplantation”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Jonathan Soucy, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison Profile About the Speaker: Jonathan Soucy is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (beginning July 2026), where he leads the Neural Engineering for Restoring Vision …
Seminar – Oleksandr Shcheglovitov, PhD – “Single Rosette Organoids as a Model of Development and Disease”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Oleksandr Shcheglovitov, PhD University of Utah Profile About the Speaker: Oleksandr “Alex” Shcheglovitov, PhD is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology from the University of Utah. He obtained his Ph.D. in biophysics from the Bogomolets Institute …
Maravillas del Waisman
Featuring: Tatiana Sarango Gonzalez
@ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
La Movida Radio
Hay muchos factores que pueden afectar el desarrollo del cerebro de manera positiva o negativa. Investigadores en el Waisman Center estudian cómo se desarrolla el cerebro del bebé y cómo factores ambientales afectan este proceso.
Seminar – Verónica Martínez Cerdeño , PhD – “GABAergic Interneurons in Autism Spectrum Disorders”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Verónica Martínez Cerdeño , PhD University of California-Davis Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Verónica Martínez Cerdeño received a B.S. in 1998, from Complutense University, Spain. In 2002, received her Ph.D. from Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain. …
