Research by MERI Director David Gamm’s laboratory has made the list of standout UW-Madison research in 2023! You can find more information about this work on lab-grown retinal cells here and in this article by Ludwig et al. published in Cell Reports.
Year: 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Award Winners!
It is our pleasure to announce that Theo Bucci, Bikalpa Ghimire, Jake Khoussine, Michele Salzman, and Tania Sharmin are our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients! These one-year grants of $7500 each are funded by the Institute’s annual Cycle for Sight event, which …
New MERI-funded research just published in Cell Reports
Congratulations to McPherson ERI members Ari Rosenberg and Lowell W. Thompson on their recent publication ‘Hierarchical computation of 3D motion across macaque areas MT and FST! This paper, which was published yesterday in Cell Reports, reveals that the macaque …
Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition!
Graduate student Jake Khoussine won this year’s Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition with his poster “Retinal output dysfunction in a model of congenital stationary night blindness”. Graduate student Michele Salzman and Research intern Anoushka Kuckreja …
15th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2023)
15th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Thursday, November 9th, 2023; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Mary Peterson (University of Arizona) Visual Ambiguity: Is it really rare?
McPherson ERI Fall 2023 InSights is out!
The new issue of InSights includes an extended look at the MERI-centric gene editing collaboration that recently received a $29 million NIH grant to launch the CRISPR Vision Program; a look at the work of three MERI …
1st Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2023)
Our Inaugural Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4pm on Thursday, October 26th, 2023! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Prof. David Gamm (RRF Emmett A Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye …
1st Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2023)
1st Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Oct 26th, 2023; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: David Gamm, MD, PhD (Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; RRF Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director, McPherson Eye …
Notice of Award Opportunity for MERI Members: AMD/RP Awards
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce this Fall semester’s application opportunity for our AMD/RP Awards! Supported by the generosity of Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and by the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration …
Notice of *NEW* Award Opportunity for MERI Members: Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Award
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce an exciting new funding opportunity: The Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Research Award! Made possible by an anonymous donor’s generous gift, this competitive award provides $50,000 to advance …