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Tyler Ulland, PhD, MS
Tyler Ulland, PhD, MS
Vilas Early-Career Investigator
Education
Cornell College, BA
University of Iowa, MS
University of Iowa, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Professional Activities
Tyler Ulland, PhD, MS, is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Within the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), Ulland serves as one of the Neuropathology Core (Core D) Co-leaders and as a Core Content Leader for Basic Science and Neuropathology in the Research Education Component (REC). Nationally, Ulland serves as a member of the Executive Council for the Autumn Immunology Conference and as a regular member of the Clinical Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Study Section at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Research Interests
The primary goal of the Ulland lab is to better understand the function of both microglia in neurodegenerative disease. Recently, our focus has been on the role of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Current work in the lab includes but is not limited to examining the microglial response to bacterial infection, changes in the gut microbiome, the presence of sterile stimuli like AD-associated pathology, and changes in systemic metabolism. The Ulland lab uses model systems and tools that span a wide range of scales, from basic molecular and cellular work, to using multiple different animal models of neurodegeneration, to working with human data and performing small-scale clinical studies.
