Past Event Category: John D. Wiley Seminar Series
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Sep 13Seminar – Rebecca Alper, PhD, CCC-SLP – “Where Should We Begin? Caregiver Strengths and Support Needs in Early Language Interaction”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Rebecca Alper, PhD, CCC-SLP University of Wisconsin–Madison Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Alper is an ASHA-certified, licensed, speech-language pathologist (WI, PA, and NJ) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Alper is also a Waisman Center Investigator and director of the Language Literacy, and …
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Apr 26Harry Waisman Memorial Lecture – Ted Abel, PhD – “Corticostriatal Circuits Underlying Neurodevelopmental Disorders”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Ted Abel, PhD University of Iowa Lab Website About the Speaker: Ted Abel, Ph.D., is the Director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience, and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. A member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of …
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Apr 19Seminar – Inge-Marie Eigsti, PhD – “Neural Underpinnings of Long-Term Behavioral Change in Autism Spectrum Disorder”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Inge-Marie Eigsti, PhD University of Connecticut Lab Website About the Speaker: Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti is interested in finding links between social communication difficulties in autism spectrum disorder, and mechanistic processes in the brain, by examining low-level cognitive processes such as working memory and auditory processing that can be linked to genetic, neurophysiological or neuroanatomical domains. …
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Apr 12Seminar – Jason Stein, PhD – “Pharmacogenomics and Gene X Environment Interactions in a Dish”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Jason Stein, PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Lab Website About the Speaker: Jason Stein is an associate professor in the Department of Genetics and the Neuroscience Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a BA from Northwestern University in the Integrated Science Program and then pursued post-baccalaureate work at …
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Apr 5Seminar – Eric Marsh, MD, PhD – “Understanding Developmental and Epileptic Disorders: From Gene to Circuit to Patient”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Eric Marsh, MD, PhD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Eric Marsh received his Medical Degree at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, as well as PhD in physiology and neuroscience at NYU Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He completed his Internship and pediatric residency at NYU and …
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Mar 22The Mayor Paul Lecture – Matthew Mosconi, PhD – “Sensorimotor and Neurocognitive Traits Useful for Understanding Familial Mechanisms of Autism”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Matthew Mosconi, PhD University of Kansas Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Matthew Mosconi is the Director of the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training, Associate Director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies (Life Span Institute), and Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on understanding structural and …
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Mar 8Seminar – Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD – “Mechanisms of Neurogenesis in the Developing Human Neocortex”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Luis de la Torre-Ubieta University of California-Los Angeles Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Luis de la Torre-Ubieta earned a doctorate degree in Neurobiology from Harvard University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and UCLA before joining the Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Semel Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center …
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Mar 1Seminar – Clare Harrop, PhD – “Accelerating Our Understanding of Females on the Autism Spectrum”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Clare Harrop, PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Profile About the Speaker: Clare Harrop, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and investigator with both the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Dr. Harrop is a developmental psychologist who …
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Feb 23Dolan Memorial Lecture – Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD – “The Brain Gene Registry: An IDDRC Resource for Rare Disease Research”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Profile About the Speaker: Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD, is the A Ernest and Jane G Stein Professor of Neurology and the head of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University in St Louis, and the Chief of Neurology at St Louis Children’s Hospital. She …
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Feb 16Seminar – Justin Wolter, PhD – “Exploring Mechanisms Underlying the Effect of Common Genetic Variation on Neurodevelopmental Traits in Genetically Diverse Cell Lines”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 Waisman Center
Justin Wolter, PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison Profile About the Speaker: Justin Wolter pursued his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology in the lab of Marco Mangone at Arizona State University. The Mangone lab used C. elegans as a model to understand how post-transcriptional gene regulation affects development processes. During this time Justin learned to love …