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  2. Year: 2024
  3. Month: January

Month: January 2024

Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 Distinguished Paper Award!

Posted on January 22, 2024

  It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our 2023 Distinguished Paper Award. This year, the McPherson ERI honored 5 trainees for their outstanding, published vision research. This year’s winners will be recognized during …

Posted in Archive, Member-2024, Members News

Dr. Freya Mowat’s research featured in UW News

Posted on January 18, 2024

Freya Mowat Ever wonder what kind of TV shows your dog might choose if they could work the remote control? If so, check out this UW-Madison News article on McPherson ERI Member Freya Mowat’s research on canine …

Posted in Archive, Member-2024, Members News

Spring 2024 Seminar Series

Posted on January 9, 2024

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jenna Nagy, PhD student (2022 Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipient; Neuroscience / Cellular & Molecular Training Program, UW–Madison) Presynaptic inhibition shapes retinal circuit output Raunak Sinha, PhD, Associate …

Posted in 2024, Archive, Seminar Series, Seminars

Congratulations to the recipients of our 2023 AMD, RP, and Glaucoma & Optic Neuropathies Awards!

Posted on January 4, 2024

  It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our second Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Awards competition, as well as the recipient of our very first Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Award competition. This year, Prof. …

Posted in Archive, Member-2024, Members News

UW News features new research by MERI member Anjon Audhya and his team

Posted on January 4, 2024

Sites (red) in a mammalian cell where COPII facilitates the packaging of various proteins. Coat Protein Complex II (COPII) is an enormously important protein that is responsible for transporting approximately one third of all proteins …

Posted in Archive, Member-2024, Members News

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