Roger and Lynn Van Vreede have been married for 35 years and have also counted 35 years of supporting charitable causes together. Their interests align well—both are lovers of the arts, and passionate gardeners and …
Year: 2024
McPherson ERI Fall 2024 Insights is out!
In the new issue of InSights you can read about Dr. Roomasa Channa’s plan to ensure broader access to diabetic retinopathy care, and learn how Dr. Karen Schloss’s lab helps us make better decisions about …
Daniel M. Albert Lecture Recording Available!
Thank you to speaker David J. Wilson and all those who attended the 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture! If you couldn’t make it to the talk, you can watch the entire presentation here.
2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2024)
Our 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1345 at 4pm on Thursday, November 14th, 2024! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Dr. David Wilson (Paul H Casey Chair of Ophthalmology, Casey …
New research in Nature Communications from the lab of MERI PI Raunak Sinha!
Congratulations to Raunak Sinha, the McPherson ERI’s David and Nancy Walsh Family Professor, for his group’s latest publication in Nature Communications! In their article, Saha et al. show that light adaptation, our visual system’s ability …
16th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2024)
16th Annual Vision Science Symposium Friday, October 25, 2024; HSLC Room 1345 Guest Speaker: Sönke Johnsen, PhD (Biology Department, Duke University) How our cognitive and sensory biases affect our study of vision: three tales from …
Introducing the McPherson ERI Grant Accelerator Program!
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is excited to announce our newest funding opportunity, the Grant Accelerator Program (GAP)! Supported by the Alice McPherson Endowment Fund for the Visual Sciences, the Van Vreede McPherson ERI Greatest …
MERI Member Akihiro Ikeda awarded NIH NEI grant
Prof. Akihiro Ikeda Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research Congratulations to MERI member Prof. Akihiro Ikeda (Dept. of Medical Genetics, SMPH; Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research) on …
2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture (2024)
2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 13th, 2024; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Goldis Malek, PhD, FARVO, FAOPT (Duke Eye Center, Duke University) Potential Therapeutics for Age-Related …
Fall 2024 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jacob Khoussine, PhD student (Cellular and Molecular Biology and Medical Scientist Training Program, UW–Madison) Mechanisms of retinal output dysfunction in congenital stationary night blindness John Zhu, PhD …