Norman Drinkwater, a UW-Madison professor of oncology, and Jan Greenberg, a UW-Madison professor of social work, have been named associate vice chancellors in the Office of Research and Graduate Education. Greenberg will lead the area of social studies while Drinkwater will lead the biological sciences.
Barbara B. Bendlin, PhD
Title: Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults Legend: Healthy late middle-aged adults with higher insulin resistance (based on fasting glucose and insulin levels) show greater amyloid deposition on [C11]PIB-PET imaging. The …
Questions for Maureen Durkin: Understanding autism’s rise
Waisman Center investigator, Maureen Durkin, PhD, DrPH, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics, was featured by the Simons Foundation Autism Reseach Initiative (SFARI) in a Q&A article about the rising prevalence of autism.
Mei Baker, MD
Title: Sequencing Library Generation Legend: Each probe contains two parts of sequences: one for targeting interested CFTR gene regions, and another for annealing to PCR primers. The DNA templates containing targeted CFTR regions were generated by a …
Vision research month
June is Vision Research Awareness Month and the Waisman Center is home to a comprehensive vision research program led by David Gamm, MD, PhD. Gamm, a Waisman Center investigator, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and Director of the McPherson Eye Research Institute, studies human retinal development and potential therapies for retinal degenerative diseases.
Karla Ausderau, PhD
Title: Sensory subtypes in children with autism using a latent profile transition analysis Legend: Four clinically distinct and homogeneous sensory subtypes were found to characterize children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a large longitudinal …
Anjon Audhya, PhD
Titel: Imaging of TFG, a protein implicated in neurodegenerative disease, across a variety of scales Legend: Staining of TFG (green) and a marker of the endoplasmic reticulum (red) in human epithelial cells (left). The localization …
Jennifer Asmus, PhD
Title: Classroom observations of social interactions between high school students with significant disabilities and their general education peers Legend: The average rate (number) of interactions per hour for focus students with significant disabilities with any general …
2015 Spring Benefit Concert raises more than $25,000
The Friends of the Waisman Center held its 20th annual benefit concert on Friday, May 1. This was a milestone event celebrating not only the 20th concert, but also the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Waisman Center.
Andrew Alexander, PhD
Title: Multiple contrast MRI with retrospective motion correction Legend: Representative example of multiple image contrasts from a new brain imaging technique MPnRAGE developed in the Alexander Lab in the Waisman Brain Imaging Core. The MPnRAGE …