WiSER CONFERENCE 2025 at UW-LA CROSSE

November 14-15, 2025

Registration now open!

Register Here

All trainee scientists = Free to attend!

Faculty & other non-trainees = $100 (until 9/5/2025; $150 thereafter)

Registration includes all meals

*Please note: Registration is a two-step process. The above link will lead you to a Qualtrics survey to collect information for each attendee. After submitting the survey you will receive an email directing you to a payment page. Everyone must complete the payment step, however trainees will select a $0 ticket.

Free lodging will be provided to students attending from outside the La Crosse area. This may become a limited resource and priority will be given to those who submit an abstract and present (either oral talk or poster), however every effort will be made to support all student attendees.

Got questions? or want to support our efforts? email us at:

wiserconsort@gmail.com

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Keynote Address

Dr. Kenneth Poss was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in Minnesota and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in 2001, Dr. Poss made the groundbreaking discovery that zebrafish had a remarkable ability to regenerate their hearts, a phenomenon off which he has built his career starting with his first and long-term faculty appointment at Duke University. In 2024, Dr. Poss was recruited back to Wisconsin where he serves as the Director of Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute and is a Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology at UW-Madison.

Over the course of his more than twenty-year independent career, Dr. Poss has made significant contributions to our understanding of how tissues, including the heart, fin, and spinal cord regenerate. His lab’s discoveries extend from the non-coding genome to the contribution of individual genes to the roles different cell types play in regeneration process. Along the way, his lab has been instrumental in establishing the zebrafish a pivotal model system for scientific research through genetic engineering and tool development. Throughout his career, Dr. Poss has been honored by many prestigious awards, including Pew Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Award, and multiple awards from the American Heart Assocation.