Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
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. Their findings, based on the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, are critical to understanding sensory perception and curing various neural …
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 Summer Research Program. Date will work with Drs. Barbara Blodi and Amitha Domalpally on a project involving Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence …
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 to announce two outstanding award recipients. Congratulations to both award recipients, who will be invited to speak in the McPherson …
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
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 provide funds to attend research conferences, in order to present vision-related work and advance educational and professional development opportunities. Congratulations …
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A Harnessing Light for Diagnosis and Therapy Tuesday, February 10, 2015- Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2014 Tuesday, March 10, 2015- WIMR conference room 7001A Genomics and Biology of Myopia Tuesday, April 14, 2015- Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Methods for Studying Visual Function Tuesday, …