Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have extensively researched how the brain processes illusion and magic. …
Year: 2015
Dan and Ellie Albert Student Vision Research Awards
Medical students Preshita S. Date and Minh T. Nguyen have each been awarded inaugural Dan and Ellie Albert Student Vision Research Awards, supported by the Dan and Ellie Albert Fund in conjunction with the Shapiro …
Spring 2015 Walsh Research Travel Awards
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from MERI members’ research groups to attend research conferences to present vision-related work. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased …
3rd Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (2015)
3rd Annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Endowed Lecture Monday, May 18, 2015 – Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building Guest Speaker: Sheila Nirenberg, PhD A Prosthetic Eye to Treat Blindness
Winter 2015 Walsh Research Travel Awards
Brian Allen and Caitlin MacNair, graduate students from McPherson ERI members’ research groups, have been chosen from an excellent and diverse field of applicants to receive McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards. These awards …
Spring 2015 Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A Harnessing Light for Diagnosis and Therapy Jeremy Rogers, PhD (Biomedical Engineering) Turning noise into signal: quantification of optical properties of tissue using scattered light Mahsa Ranji, …