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  2. Year: 2023
  3. Month: December

Month: December 2023

Gamm lab research featured in UW’s Science stories that stood out on campus in 2023

Posted on December 15, 2023

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.

Posted in Archive, Member-2023, Members News

Congratulations to our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Award Winners!

Posted on December 8, 2023

  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 …

Posted in Archive, Member-2023, Members News

New MERI-funded research just published in Cell Reports

Posted on December 6, 2023

  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 …

Posted in Archive, Member-2023, Members News, Research 2023, Research News

Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition!

Posted on December 1, 2023

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 …

Posted in Archive, Member-2023, Members News

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