Month: November 2020

8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (2020)

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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 California, Berkley; Vice Chair, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA; Vice Chair, Fighting Blindness, Ireland) Engineering “gene-independent” therapies for blindness

New McPherson ERI Expanding Our Vision (EOV) grant recipients announced

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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 imaging techniques for the visual system, computer sciences, and/or bioinformatics. Research in these areas is essential for understanding the intricacies …