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 Student (Neuroscience Training Program, UW–Madison)
    Distinct effects of electrical microstimulation in macaque areas MT and FST on 3D motion perception

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH

  • Michele Salzman, PhD Student (Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Surgical Sciences, UW–Madison)
    Age associations and retinal structure-function relationships in companion dogs
  • Michael Landowski, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher (Medical Genetics, UW–Madison)
    Keeping an Eye on Lipids: Insights into Retinal Lipid Metabolism from Studies on TMEM135

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II
Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients

  • Mason Shipley, PhD Student (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UW–Madison)
    The LAT Enhancer of HSV-1 is Required for Anterograde Transport Gene Expression During Reactivation
  • Praveen Susaimanickam, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher (Waisman Center, UW–Madison)
    Defining the molecular signature of red/green cone photoreceptor precursors using a novel human pluripotent stem cell cone-rod reporter line
  • Serena Wisner, PhD student (Neuroscience Training Program, UW–Madison)
    Role of photoreceptor input for synapse formation across inner retinal neurons

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH

  • Meha Kabra, PhD, Scientist I (Pediatrics, UW–Madison)
    Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy
  • Bilge Mutlu, PhD, Professor (Computer Sciences; Psychology; Industrial Engineering, UW–Madison)
    Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Experience the World through Embodied AI