Past Event Category: John D. Wiley Seminar Series
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Apr 17Seminar – Bryn Webb, MD, FACMG – “N=1 Discovery: Diagnosing Rare Disease Through Single-Patient Investigation”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Bryn Webb, MD, FACMG University of Wisconsin–Madison Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Bryn Webb is associate professor in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism and the UW Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine and Director of the Undiagnosed Disease Program. In addition, Webb serves as attending physician with clinical genetics privileges in the University of …
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Apr 10Seminar – Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD – “From Brain Oscillations to Intervention: Understanding and Modulating Verbal Short-term Memory”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin Profile About the Speaker: Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a biomedical engineer and a cognitive neuroscientist by training. Her work focuses on optimizing neurorehabilitation approaches for the treatment of cognitive disorders in acquired and …
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Mar 20Seminar – Chun-Li Zhang, PhD – “In Vivo Glia Reprogramming for Neural Repair”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Chun-Li Zhang, PhD UT-Southwestern Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Chun-Li Zhang received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from UT Southwestern, where he studied under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Olson on transcriptional control of muscle development and heart disease. Upon graduation in 2003, he conducted postdoctoral research as a HHMI Fellow of the Life Sciences Research …
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Mar 13CANCELED: Seminar – Scott Soderling, PhD – “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Proximity as a Driver of Synaptic Signaling in Health and Disease”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Scott Soderling, PhD Duke University Profile About the Speaker: Scott Soderling, Ph.D., is a George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an expert in molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell biology and dysfunction linked to human brain disorders. His lab has …
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Feb 27Seminar – Kartik Pattabiraman, MD, PhD – “Making the Right Connection: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Cognitive Circuit Assembly”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 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 Francisco, where he studied genetic mechanisms of cortical development in the laboratory of Dr. John Rubenstein. Afterwards, he completed his …
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Feb 20Seminar – 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 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 models as well as cell culture systems. His work has focused on signals that regulate precursor proliferation, cell cycle exit, …
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Feb 13Seminar – 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 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 MD-PhD in 2007. Her research focuses on the development of social motivation in infants and young children, including developing measures …
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Feb 6Seminar – Jonathan Soucy, PhD – “Engineering the Retinal Microenvironment to Enable Retinal Ganglion Cell Transplantation”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 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 (NERV) Lab. His research focuses on engineering the tissue microenvironment to enable retinal ganglion cell (RGC) transplantation and neural circuit …
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Jan 30Seminar – Oleksandr Shcheglovitov, PhD – “Single Rosette Organoids as a Model of Development and Disease”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 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 of Physiology. He did his postdoctoral training with Dr. Ed Perez-Reyes at the University of Virginia and Dr. Ricardo Dolmetsch …
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Dec 19Seminar – Verónica Martínez Cerdeño , PhD – “GABAergic Interneurons in Autism Spectrum Disorders”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 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. After completing her doctorate in Neuroanatomy, Dr. Martinez Cerdeño did her postdoctoral training in brain development at Columbia University in …