Year: 2021
New Research Grants: Mezu-Ndubuisi & Gamm Labs
We’d like to note two substantial new research grants recently received by McPherson ERI member PIs. Congratulations to Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD, OD, who was recently awarded a five-year K08 Career Development Award from NIH/NEI in …
9th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture (2021)
9th Annual McPherson Endowed Lecture December 9th, 2021; Virtual Guest Speaker: Kapil Bharti, PhD (Senior Investigator, Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research Section; Adjunct Group Leader, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Eye Institute, …
UW News profiles the Velten Lab’s video-around-corners project
13th Annual Vision Science Symposium (Fall Trainee Symposium) (2021)
Fall Trainee Symposium Thursday, November 4th, 2021; Zoom Introduction from David Gamm and Adam Steinberg Guest Speakers: Michael Landowski (Medical Genetics; UW-Madison) Deciphering the Role of Aging in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Heather Heitkotter (Cell Biology, …
Shawn Green’s lab shows that action game play leads to quicker learners
Ahna Skop among judges for 2021 Cool Science Images Contest
Finding Clarity: Fellowship supports Ben Sajdak’s career path
For some people, career paths are well-defined tracks laid out early on. Ben Sajdak But for Ben Sajdak, who completed his Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellowship in September, a career path wasn’t initially apparent. However, two important …
Fall 2021 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 , 2021 Ralph W. Nelson (2020 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant Recipient; Mason Lab, Kinesiology, UW–Madison) The effects of dual‐task interference and visual attention in autistic and non‐ autistic youth Yin Li …