Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 – 3571 WIMR
- Kushin Mukherjee, Postdoctoral Researcher (Cognitive Tools Lab, Stanford University)
Cognitive Abstractions for Visual Communication - Isabel Villanueva, Graduate Student (Life Sciences Communication, UW–Madison)
The Art of Science Communication: How Visual Art Shapes Public Engagement with Climate and Health Data
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 – 1360 Biotech
- David Barnett, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD Student (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, ICTR Clinical Investigation Graduate Program, UW–Madison)
Metabolic Clues to Retinal Degeneration: Lessons from Pgc1a and Diet in Aging Mice - Akihiro Ikeda, Timothy William Trout Professor in Eye Research (Medical Genetics, UW–Madison)
Mitochondrial Architecture in Rod Photoreceptors: Development, Maintenance, and Functional Role
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 – 3571 WIMR
- Theodore Bucci, PhD Student (Neuroscience, UW–Madison)
Retinal Circuit Function in Response to Delayed Rod Photoreceptor Shutoff - Bikalpa Ghimire, PhD Student (Neuroscience, UW–Madison)
Mechanistic Investigation of Motion-Based Visual Segmentation - Tania Sharmin, PhD Student (Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UW–Madison)
Role of Integrin a4 and a9 in the Development of Elevated IOP and Trabecular Meshwork Damage
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 – 1360 Biotech
- Carter Sifferman, PhD Student (Computer Sciences, UW–Madison)
3D Vision with Single-Photon Cameras - Alex Xie, Postdoctoral Researcher (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Biomedical Engineering, UW–Madison)
Biomaterials for Outer Retinal Therapy