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