John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital   For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 608.263.5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the …

Laura Ranum, PhD. University of Florida. Topic: The Neurogenetic Basis of Repeat Disorders

Robert Berman, PhD University of California, Davis   For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 608.263.5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the …

Dr. Head received her B.Sc., MA and PhD in neuroscience from the University of Toronto, Canada.  She completed a postdoctoral position at the University of California at Irvine and remained as an assistant professor in residence, where she was the Director of the Brain Tissue Repository and served as Co-Leader of the Alzheimer Disease Center Neuropathology Core. The Head laboratory is dedicated to the understanding of aging and Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome. 

Dr. Warren received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2005 from the University of Miami and is currently an associate professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and special education at Vanderbilt University. He is the executive director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s (VKC) Treatment and Research Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), autism clinical services within the Division of Developmental Medicine at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, and serves as co-PI of the Autism Speaks – Autism Treatment Network at Vanderbilt.

I am a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-based faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at UPenn. The focus of my laboratory concerns the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern the development of the mammalian forebrain. We use mouse genetics, forebrain slice and dissociated culture techniques, as well as mouse and human pluripotent stem cells in cell culture and transplantation experiments to study the fate determination of interneurons of the cerebral cortex.

Jonathan A. Weiss, Ph.D. (York University), is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, and a clinical psychologist. He completed a pre-doctoral internship at Surrey Place Centre (Toronto) and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Dual Diagnosis Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and was a fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the prevention and treatment of mental health problems in people with autism spectrum disorders and/or intellectual disabilities across the lifespan.

Dr. Rivera uses classic behavioral as well as neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate such things as the development of dorsal vs. ventral visual processing, object representation, numerical cognition and affective processing.

John Foxe, PhD, is a translational researcher with a history of research studies on the basic neurophysiology of schizophrenia and autism.

Dr. Gene Yeo is an expert in the areas of RNA, computational biology, genomics and neurological diseases. Yeo obtained a bachelor of science in chemical engineering and a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998) and a master’s degree in business administration from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (2008). Funded by the Lee Kuan Yew Graduate Fellowship from Singapore, Yeo earned a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience (2005) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the joint guidance of Dr. Tomaso Poggio and Dr. Christopher Burge.