Faculty

Chair

Deneen Wellik

Position title: Professor and Chair

Email: wellik@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 262-5491

Research Interests - Hox genes in mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and their role in development, repair and regeneration

Faculty

Anita Bhattacharyya

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: bhattacharyy@waisman.wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-6142

Research Interests - Altered development of the cerebral cortex in neurodevelopmental disorders

Roméo Blanc

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: rblanc@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-3775

Research Interests - Aging, Epigenetics, Stem Cell Biology, Inflammation, Muscle regeneration

Barak Blum

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: bblum4@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-5211 | Fax: (608) 262-7306

Research Interests - Regulation of terminal differentiation and functional maturation of stem and progenitor cells, regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, diabetes

Grace Boekhoff-Falk

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: boekhofffalk@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 262-1609 | Fax: (608) 262-7306

Research Interests - Development and evolution of neural systems

Marjorie Brand

Position title: Professor

Email: mbrand3@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 262-4676

Research Interests - Gene Regulation; Gene Regulatory Networks; Hematopoiesis; Leukemia; Epigenetics; Genomics; Proteomics

Emery Bresnick

Position title: Gary Felsenfeld Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology; Lowell and Gwendolyn Smythe Endowed Professor; Director, UW-Madison Blood Cancer Research Program

Email: ehbresni@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-6446

Research Interests - Cancer Predisposition Mechanisms; Epigenetics; Hematology; Genomics/Precision Medicine; Stem/Progenitor Cell Biology

Ricki Colman

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: rcolman@primate.wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-3544

Research Interests - Energy regulation and the impact of caloric restriction on aging in nonhuman primates

Jeffrey Dilworth

Position title: Associate Chair of Research; Professor

Email: fdilworth@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-3758

Research Interests - Epigenetic regulation of muscle stem cell-mediated regeneration

Ying Ge

Position title: Professor

Email: ge2@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-9212 | Fax: (608) 265-5512

Research Interests - Cardiovascular Systems Biology through High-resolution Mass Spectrometry-based Comparative Proteomics and Metabolomics

Anne Griep

Position title: Professor

Email: aegriep@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 262-8988

Research Interests - Molecular and genetic regulation of mouse development, in particular ocular development and disease

Timothy J. Kamp

Position title: Professor - Medicine; Co-director - Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

Email: tjk@medicine.wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-1172, (608) 263-1532

Research Interests - Cardiogenesis from embryonic stem cells

Junsu Kang

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: junsu.kang@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 262-8678

Research Interests - Heart regeneration, fin regeneration, regeneration enhancer, gene regulation, genetic mutant, zebrafish

Abhishek Kumar

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: abhishek.kumar@wisc.edu

Bo Liu

Position title: Professor

Email: bliu24@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-5931

Research Interests - Biology of blood vessels, inflammation, intracellular signaling, cell death, cell-cell communications, extracellular matrix protein biology

Valentina Lo Sardo

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: losardo@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-5624

Research Interests - Genetic risk factors in cardiovascular disease and cancer, role in cell fate and state determination, ethnicity-based risk for disease

Jeremy Nance

Position title: Associate Chair for Education and Training; Professor

Email: jfnance@wisc.edu

Research Interests - C. elegans, embryogenesis, cell polarity, gastrulation, organogenesis, epithelial cells, germ cells, cancer, developmental genetics, stem cell biology

Suzanne Ponik

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: ponik@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 265-2398

Research Interests - Breast cancer, cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, and immune modulation in the collagen-dense tumor microenvironment

Kenneth Poss

Position title: Professor; Director of Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute

Email: kposs@morgridge.org

Research Interests - Concepts and mechanisms of tissue regeneration

Igor Slukvin

Position title: Professor - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Email: islukvin@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-0058

Research Interests - Hematopoietic development from pluripotent stem cells; de novo generation of hematopoietic stem cells, modeling leukemia stem cells using reprogramming technologies

Rupa Sridharan

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: rsridharan2@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 316-4422

Research Interests - Epigenetics of cell fate change

Owen Tamplin

Position title: Assistant Professor & DEI Community of Practice Lead

Email: tamplin@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 890-0938

Research Interests - The hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment

Beth Weaver

Position title: Professor

Email: baweaver@wisc.edu

Phone: Phone: (608) 263-5309

Research Interests - Regulation of chromosome segregation during mitosis. Impact of chromosome missegregation on tumors