The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients! Made possible by the David G. Walsh endowment, these travel awards provide support for MERI trainees to attend and present vision-related research at a professional conference or symposium. This semester, the MERI Research and Leadership Committees have selected the following two trainees to receive this $1500 award:
David Barnett, Postdoctoral Researcher
(Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UW-Madison; Freya Mowat, mentor)
David will attend the ARVO 2024 annual meeting in Seattle, WA in May of 2024. David’s presentation will be entitled “Pgc1a haploinsufficiency causes functional retinal deficits in aged mice.”
Carter Sifferman, Graduate Student
(Computer Sciences, UW-Madison
Michael Gleicher & Mohit Gupta, mentor)
Carter will attend The 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan in May 2024. Carter’s presentation will be entitled “Unlocking the Performance of Proximity Sensors by Utilizing Transient Histograms.”