Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Biography PhD, Harvard University Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Avenue Room 715A Madison, WI 53705 ahrizvi@wisc.edu Lab Website: Coming Soon Research Statement My research group focuses on studying how patterns of gene regulation, at the level of single cells and spatially resolved, mediate homeostatic function within the central nervous system. We compare these results …
Biography PhD, University of Chicago Contact Information 1111 Highland Avenue Room 5505 WIMR-II Madison, WI 53705 (608) 265-5782 ari.rosenberg@wisc.edu Rosenberg Lab Research Statement We study the neural computations underlying 3D vision, multisensory integration, and the neural basis of autism. 3D vision How do we perceive the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the world when our eyes …
Biography PhD, University of Rochester Contact Information Waisman Center Room 538A 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608.263.5792 jenny.saffran@wisc.edu Infant Learning Lab Research Statement How do babies learn language? We approach this question through lab-based experiments designed to reveal the learning abilities that infants bring to this challenging task. Research foci include statistical learning, or …
Biography PhD, University of California-Berkeley Contact Information Wisconsin Institute for Discovery 330 North Orchard Street Room 4164 Madison, WI 53715 608.316.4313 ksaha@wisc.edu Saha Lab Research Statement Cellular reprogramming allows for the generation of a self-renewing and patient-specific cell source for drug discovery, cell therapies, and regenerative medicine through the generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells …
Biography PhD, Harvard University Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave Room 538B Madison, WI 53705 608.265.8949 kshutts@wisc.edu Lab Website: Social Kids Lab Research Statement I study how infants and children apprehend their social world. I am particularly interested in the development of social categories and inter-group bias in childhood. When do children come to …
Biography PhD, Northeastern University Postdoctoral Fellow, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave Room 651 Madison, WI 53705 email: jsoucy@wisc.edu Neural Engineering for Restoring Vision (NERV) Lab https://nervlab.bio/ Research Statement The visual system assembles remarkably precise neural circuits during development, yet it has …
Biography PhD, University of Porto, Portugal Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave Room T509 Madison, WI 53706 andre.sousa@wisc.edu Sousa Lab Research Statement The development of the human brain is a long and complex process that is precisely choreographed through tightly regulated transcriptional programs. Proper regulation of these programs is necessary for developing the numerous …
Biography PhD, University of Kansas Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave Room 481 Madison, WI 53705 608.265.6901 asterling@waisman.wisc.edu Website: Research in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Language Lab (RIDDLL) Research Statement My work focuses on the cognitive and language development of individuals with developmental disabilities. In particular I am interested in children with fragile X syndrome, autism, …
Biography DVM, Veterinary Medicine, The Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery, Japan PhD, Veterinary Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan Contact Information 4124 Vet Med 2015 Linden Dr Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608.262.4264 masatoshi.suzuki@wisc.edu Suzuki Lab Research Statement Our long-term objective is to apply stem cell technology to expand integrative sciences in both basic and translational research. …
Biography PhD, Vanderbilt University Director, IDD Models Core Contact Information Waisman Center Room 659 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608-263-4246 jpsvaren@wisc.edu Lab Website: Svaren Lab Home Page School of Veterinary Medicine Research Statement Our laboratory is devoted to research on transcriptional and epigenomic regulation of myelination and pathogenesis/treatment of peripheral neuropathies. The myelin sheath …
