Year: 2020
8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (2020)
8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture November 12th, 2020; Virtual Guest Speaker: John Gerard Flannery, PhD (Neurobiology division, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, The School of Optometry, University of …
New McPherson ERI Expanding Our Vision (EOV) grant recipients announced
The Expanding Our Vision (EOV) grant program was started this year to provide awards of up to $10,000 to researchers performing vision-related research in visual communication, visual cognition, visual perception/performance, data visualization, development of novel …
Skala Lab tracks role of microphages in cancer spread
12th Annual Vision Science Symposium (Fall Trainee Symposium) (2020)
Fall Trainee Symposium Thursday, October 15th, 2020; Zoom Guest Speakers: Ben Sajdak (Morgridge Institute) Playing with Scattered Light to Improve Retinal Structure Contrast Aishwarya Iyer Bhasker (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) What Awakens a Sleeping Virus? …
OnLume Surgical, co-founded by Eliceiri, Velten & others, receives Wisconsin Innovation Award
McPherson ERI Fall 2020 Trainee Symposium, October 15th
Please join us for the McPherson ERI Fall 2020 Trainee Symposium, to be held online in lieu of our annual in-person poster session. McPherson ERI trainees will give 3-minute “flash talks” on their current research …
Fall 2020 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 – VIA ZOOM Yuyuan Wang, PhD (Sarah Gong Lab, Biomedical Engineering) Multifunctional nanocarriers for CRISPR gene-editing tool delivery Allison Ludwig, PhD Trainee (David Gamm Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Preclinical progress …
A New Approach to a Rare, Incurable Form of Blindness
A collaboration among four McPherson ERI member labs has resulted in a proof-of-concept method to correct an inherited form of macular degeneration that causes blindness, and that is currently untreatable. The research, which focused on …