Scientific Symposium
September 21 @ 8:30 am - September 22 @ 1:30 pm
50th Anniversary Scientific Symposium
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Event Details
September 21 | 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM
September 22 | 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
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| When: | September 21 & 22, 2023 9:00 PM –5:00 PM |
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| Where: | Waisman Center Friends of the Waisman Center Auditorium 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 |
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| About: | Hear about latest advances in autism, Down syndrome, functional genomics, and imaging research plus promising Waisman translational research in the areas of autism (Leann DaWalt), degenerative eye disease (David Gamm), Parkinson’s disease (Su-Chun Zhang). | |
| Registration: | Coming Soon | |
| Sponsor This Event: | Download the Scientific Symposium Sponsorship Form | |
Schedule & Program
Thursday, September 21
| 8:30 am |
— Breakfast — |
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Introduction to the Waisman Center Qiang Chang, PhD, Director |
| 9:15 am | Theme: Functional Genomics Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD Univ. of California San Francisco |
| 10:15 am | Waisman Research Spotlight Daifeng Wang, PhD James Li, PhD Andre Sousa, PhD |
| 11:00 am |
— Break —
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| 11:15 am | Theme: Imaging Cynthia Rogers, MD Washington University St. Louis |
| 12:15 pm | — Lunch — |
| 1:00 pm | Waisman Research Spotlight Doug Dean, PhD Audra Sterling, PhD Ruth Litovsky, PhD |
| 1:45 pm | — Break — |
| 2:00 pm |
Waisman Research Spotlight
Xinyu Zhao, PhD Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT Katie Hustad, PhD |
| 3:00 pm | Theme: Autism Catherine Lord, PhD Univ. of California Los Angeles |
| 4:00 pm | Waisman Research Spotlight Maureen Durkin, PhD Brittany Travers, PhD Andy Alexander, PhD |
| 4:45 pm | Waisman Training Spotlight |
| 5:00 pm | — Poster Session — |
Friday, September 22
| 8:30 am |
— Breakfast —
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| 9:00 am | Theme: Down Syndrome Mara Dierssen, PhD Centre for Genomic Regulation |
| 10:00 am | Waisman Research Spotlight Sigan Hartley, PhD Brad Christian, PhD Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD Qiang Chang, PhD |
| 11:00 am | — Lunch — |
| 12:00 pm | Promising Waisman Translational Research Leann DaWalt, PhD David Gamm, MD, PhD Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD |
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