Seminar – Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD – “Understanding Gene x Environment Interactions: The 16p11.2 Neurodevelopmental Mouse Model, Antibiotics, and the Microbiome”

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD Rutgers University Profile About the Speaker: Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD, Professor at the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology from Rutgers University, is a child neurologist who studies basic mechanisms of brain development in rodent …

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD

Waisman Center Day with the Experts: Congenital Heart Defects

Waisman Center
@ 9:00 am - 11:30 am

In-Person and Virtual Saturday, February 7, 2026 Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects, affecting 1% of all babies. Children with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) require heart surgery or other intervention before …

Infant with open heart surgery scar

Seminar – Jonathan Soucy, PhD – “Engineering the Retinal Microenvironment to Enable Retinal Ganglion Cell Transplantation”

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Jonathan Soucy, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison Profile About the Speaker: Jonathan Soucy is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (beginning July 2026), where he leads the Neural Engineering for Restoring Vision …

Jonathan Soucy, PhD

Maravillas del Waisman

Featuring: Tatiana Sarango Gonzalez
@ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
La Movida Radio

Hay muchos factores que pueden afectar el desarrollo del cerebro de manera positiva o negativa. Investigadores en el Waisman Center estudian cómo se desarrolla el cerebro del bebé y cómo factores ambientales afectan este proceso.

La Movida Boy winter snow

Annual Poster Fair

John D. Wiley Conference Center Lounge, 2nd Floor, North Tower, Waisman Center
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

The poster session will highlight the interdisciplinary research carried out at the Waisman Center. Posters prepared for scientific meetings are preferred. Register here by Friday, November 30. Complementary posters are available. Submit your pdf file …

A man and a woman viewing a poster at the Waisman Center poster fair

Family-Led Academic Grand Rounds

@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom Link

Overview: A collaborative initiative between the University of Wisconsin’s UCEDD, the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the Bluebird Way Foundation has created 5 virtual Family-Led Academic Grand Rounds …

Boys in hospital