Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A
MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2015 – 2016
- Maggie Maes, graduate student (Nickells Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Best Student Presentation Award, Fall 2015; Walsh Research Travel Award, Spring 2016
Investigating longitudinal and kinetic profiles of BAX recruitment in mouse retinal ganglion cells - Mitra Farnoodian, graduate student (Sheibani Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Walsh Research Travel Award, Fall 2015
Diabetes and dysfunction of RPE cells
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Color Perception
- Karen Schloss, PhD (Psychology; Living Environments Laboratory, WID)
Communicating through color - Mikhail Kats, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Enhancing human color vision by breaking binocular redundancy
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A
Tissue Engineering Methodology
- Kristyn Masters, PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
Creation of 3D models of the retinal microenvironment in age-‐related macular degeneration - Eric Nguyen, PhD (Sheibani Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Enhanced‐throughput platforms to model retinal and neural vasculature on synthetic hydrogels
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology room 1360
Options for Children with Congenital Blindness
- Melanie Schmitt, MD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Leber congenital amaurosis: A clinical perspective - Bikash Pattnaik, PhD (Pediatrics)
Leber congenital amaurosis: Beyond clinics
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