Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Biography PhD, University of Massachusetts – Amherst Academic Associate Dean, Natural / Biological / Mathematical Sciences College of Letters & Science Oros Family Chair, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Professor with Joint appointment in Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Program Faculty, Neuroscience Training Program Contact …
Biography PhD, Brandeis University Vaughan Bascom and Elizabeth M. Boggs Professor Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 marsha.mailick@wisc.edu Lifespan Family Research Research Statement Marsha R. Mailick is emeritus vice chancellor for research and graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison), and continues her research at the Waisman Center in the …
Biography VMD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus, Comparative Biosciences Contact Information Waisman Center, Room 713B 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608-263-9191 amessing@wisc.edu Alexander Disease Research Requests for materials Research Statement Research in my laboratory is directed at understanding developmental and pathologic aspects of glial cell biology in the nervous system of the mouse, …
Biography PhD, University of Miami Contact Information 1111 Highland Avenue Room 5505 WIMR-II Madison, WI 53705 (608) 265-7836 darcie.moore@wisc.edu Moore Lab Website Research Statement There is limited regenerative capacity in the adult mammalian central nervous system (CNS). My lab studies this loss of regeneration in two different contexts: Adult neurogenesis, where neural stem cells (NSCs) …
Biography PhD, University of Washington, Seattle Contact Information email: newton@stat.wisc.edu Lab page: https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~newton/ Research Statement Dr. Newton does research in data science for basic and translational biomedicine. His contributions span applications in cancer biology, immunology, genomics, methodologies for high-dimensional biostatistical inference, and theory for computational statistics. Dr. Newton leads an inclusive and cutting-edge research group, …
Biography PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders Contact Information: Waisman Center 1500 Highland Avenue Room 485 Madison, WI 53705 608-890-0192 cniziolek@wisc.edu Brain, Language, & Acoustic Behavior (BLAB) Lab Research Statement I study the neural control of speaking: how the brain coordinates auditory and motor signals to achieve communicative goals. My …
Biography PhD, University of Southern California Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Avenue Room 489 Madison, WI 53705 bparrell@wisc.edu Speech Motor Action + Control Research Statement I study speech production, focusing the relationship between the abstract, cognitive system (language), speech motor behavior, and brain function. Speech production is perhaps …
Biography MD, PhD – University of Virginia-Charlottesville Contact Information University of Wisconsin (608) 263-0208 rapearce@wisc.edu Pearce Lab Research Statement Research in my laboratory is focused on understanding how anesthetics and other drugs that target GABA receptors control memory formation and consciousness. Using expressed recombinant receptors, hippocampal brain slice preparations, and multichannel in vivo recordings from …
Biography PhD, University of Rochester Contact Information Waisman Center Room 391 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608.890.2525 childemotion@waisman.wisc.edu Lab Website: Child Emotion Laboratory Research Statement Research projects in our lab are focused upon children’s emotional development and the relationship between early emotional experience and child psychopathology. We are particularly interested in understanding two related …
Biography MD, PhD, Catholic University of Rome (Italy) Contact Information Waisman Address: 1500 Highland Ave Room 621 Madison, WI 53705 Email: lp1@medicine.wisc.edu Puglielli Lab Research Statement Our broad research interests are focused on molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. Our laboratory employs a combination of biochemical, cellular, molecular, and genetic approaches in in vitro, ex …
