Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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 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 621Madison, WI 53705 Email: lp1@medicine.wisc.eduPuglielli 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 vivo and in …
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 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, 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 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 …
