University of Wisconsin–Madison

2016-2017 awards and recognition

2017

  • Madilyn Williams, a student hourly working in WNPRC Administrative Services, is one of AMP’s newest Hayre fellows.
  • Two WNPRC graduate students were among six student presenters at UW-Madison’s Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Program Symposium June 15 at the Fluno Center. James Garcia in Ei Terasawa’s lab presented, “The role of kisspeptin and neurokinin B signaling in the pubertal increase in GhRH release in male rhesus monkeys.” Sydney Nguyen in Ted Golos’s lab addressed “Ferumoxytol imaging at the maternal-fetal interface.”
  • UW-Madison Junior Lyndsey Waite, mentored by Joe Kemnitz, professor and vice-chair, Cell and Regenerative Biology, and Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, was part of UW-Madison’s home page article April 17 on the Undergraduate Symposium.
  • Congratulations to Forward-under-40″ 2017 award recipient Matthew Aliota, WNPRC scientific affiliate on the Zika Experimental Science Team.

2016

  • Ari Rosenberg is one of three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors named to Sloan Research Fellowships — prestigious and competitive awards given to promising young researchers in the early stages of their careers. An assistant professor of neuroscience, Rosenberg is a new WNPRC research affiliate, studying neural computations underlying 3D vision, multisensory integration, and the neural basis of autism.
  • Henry Resnikoff, an undergraduate student in Marina Emborg’s Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program, was awarded a Parkinson’s disease Foundation Summer Fellowship 2016 to study the “Impact of Inflammation on Alpha-synuclein Expression in the Colonic Enteric Nervous System”
  • Mary Ann Croft, distinguished researcher in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, working with Paul Kaufman, received the 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research as an Independent Investigator.
  • Marissa Kraynak, a Ph.D. candidate in the Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology program and a teaching assistant in the Department of Zoology, who conducts research in David Abbott’s lab, received UW-Madison’s annual Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities.
  • Sylvia Frazier, who is majoring in biology, and gender and women’s studies, won a 2016 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, studying in the labs of David Abbott (her advisor) and Jon Levine.
  • Bryce Wolfe, a graduate student in the School of Medicine & Public Health’s Cellular and Molecular Pathology Ph.D. program, conducting research with Ted Golos, received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator Travel Award to attend the International Federation of Placenta Associations annual conference in Portland, Oregon in September. There, she received the Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Award for best oral presentation. Her presentation was titled, “First trimester infection with Listeria monocytogenes is characterized by decidual and placental inflammation in pregnant cynomolgus macaques.”