Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Kevin Eliceiri, professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, plans to improve the architecture and infrastructure of μManager, an open-source software package for control of automated microscopes. Open-source software is crucial to modern scientific research for advancing biology and medicine while also providing reproducibility and transparency. Yet, even the most …
McPherson ERI’s MERI-at-a-Glance event, which highlighted the breadth of vision research conducted by MERI members, took place at WID on Friday, November 22nd. Eight McPherson ERI members gave short scientific presentations, alongside a pizza lunch and time for networking and discussion. This year’s MERI-at-a-Glance presenters were: Akihiro Ikeda, DVM, PhD (Medical Genetics), Loss of chondroitin …
Thank you to all who attended and to all who displayed posters at the 11th annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Vision Science poster session on October 24th, including the sixteen students/trainees whose posters were considered for awards. The four judges noted the overall excellence of posters in this year’s competition! The “Best Student Presentation …
11th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Thursday Oct 24th, 2019; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Margaret S. Livingstone (Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School) What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among fall semester 2019 applicants: Ryan Donahue, …
McPherson ERI member H. Adam Steinberg, who for many years has offered McPherson ERI members and trainees an annual workshop on effectively presenting and communicating science in posters and presentations, will co-teach an Illuminating Discovery Science Communication Course this fall. The course, which will be held in the Discovery Building and sponsored by WID, aims …
With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in Fall 2019. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI …
Tiny capsules packed with gene-editing tools offer an alternative to viral delivery of gene therapy…. New tools for editing genetic code offer hope for new treatments for inherited diseases, some cancers, and even stubborn viral infections. But the typical method for delivering gene therapies to specific tissues in the body can be complicated and may …
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Ocular Hypertension: Findings from Modeling and Measuring Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – WIMR II conference room 3571 New Imaging Tools: Prospects and Applications Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Mining Patient Datasets: Impact on Healthcare and Clinical Trials Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – …