Winner

Honorable Mentions

Aindrila Saha

Graduate Student, Neuroscience, SMPH Mentor: Raunak Sinha

Poster presented: “Functional development of cone photoreceptors in the primate retina and retinal organoids”

Celia Bisbach

Postdoctoral Researcher, Waisman Center, VCRGE Mentor: David Gamm

Poster presented: “Modeling Usher Syndrome using Human Stem Cell-derived Retinal Organoids”

Kushin Mukherjee

Graduate Student, Psychology, L&S Mentor: Karen Schloss

Poster presented: “Estimating human color-concept associations from multimodal language models”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Jacob Khoussine

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Mrinalini Hoon

Poster presented: “Retinal output dysfunction in a model of congenital stationary night blindness.”

Michele Salzman

Graduate Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, SVM Mentor: Freya Mowat

Poster presented: “Age-associated changes in a measure of visual function in companion dogs”

Anoushka Kuckreja

Middleton HS Student, Research Intern, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Bikash Pattnaik

Poster presented: “Reducing the fidelity of specific tRNA to bridge the translation gap”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Zikang ‘John’ Zhu

Graduate Student, Neuroscience, SMPH Mentor: Ari Rosenberg

Poster presented: “Differential Clustering of Visual, Choice-, and Saccade-Related Activity in Macaque V3A and CIP.”

Michael Landowski

Postdoctoral Student, Medical Genetics, SMPH Mentor: Aki Ikeda

Poster presented: “A Novel Function of Transmembrane Protein 135 in Peroxisomal Homeostasis”

Clementine Zimnicki

Graduate Student, Psychology, College of L&S Mentor: Karen Schloss

Poster presented: “Squares vs. Maps: effects of configuration on the dark-is-more bias?”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Sarah Rempel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuroscience, SMPH Mentor: Timothy Gomez

Poster presented: “Human stem cell-derived photoreceptors switch from cell autonomous neurite growth to non-autonomous process stretching with retinal organoid age.”

Ryan Niemeier

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, SMPH Mentor: Jeremy Rogers

Poster presented: “LINK: A unified imaging platform with multiscale potential”

Abhilash Sawant

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Mrinalini Hoon

Poster presented: “Mixed GABA-Glycine inhibitory synapses mediate postsynaptic inhibition on mouse ON alpha retinal ganglion cells”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Allison Ludwig

Graduate Student, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, SMPH Mentor: David Gamm

Poster presented: “Comprehensive in vivo assessment of human pluripotent stem cell-derived photoreceptor survival & differentiation potential in the S334ter rat model of retinal degeneration.”

Kazuya Oikawa

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Gillian McLellan

Poster presented: “Association between aqueous humor (AH) transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and intraocular pressure in a spontaneous glaucoma model”

Abhilash Sawant

Graduate Student, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentors: Mrinalini Hoon & Raunak Sinha

Poster presented: “Mixed GABA-Glycine synapses on mouse retinal ON alpha ganglion cell dendrites”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Divya Sinha

Postdoctoral Researcher, Waisman Center; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Dave Gamm

Poster presented: “Modulations of mitochondrial respiration in hPSC-RPE.”

Erica Macke

Graduate Student, Medical Genetics, SMPH Mentor: Aki Ikeda

Poster presented: “Age-dependent retinal abnormalities and neurodegeneration in the small kinky tail mutant”

Chris Racey

Graduate Student, Psychology, College of L&S Mentor: Karen Schloss

Poster presented: “Color naming fluency does not explain color preference when chroma is controlled”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Heather Schmitt

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Rob Nickells

Poster presented: “Targeting HDAC3 activity prevents retinal ganglion cell nuclear atrophy and apoptosis after optic nerve injury”

Brad Gundlach

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Mentor: Mikhail Kats

Poster presented: “Enhancing human color vision by breaking binocular redundancy”

Erica Macke

Graduate Student, Medical Genetics, SMPH Mentor: Aki Ikeda

Poster presented: “Age-related retinal abnormalities and neurodegeneration in the Small Kinky Tail mutant”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Maggie Maes

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Rob Nickells

Poster presented: “BAX oligomerization kinetics and its role in retinal ganglion cell death.”

Pawan Shahi

Graduate Student, Pediatrics, SMPH Mentor: Bikash Pattnaik

Poster presented: “Read-through therapy for blindness using iPS-RPE cells”

Li Xuan Tan

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Aparna Lakkaraju

Poster presented: “FDA-approved sphingomyelinase inhibitors stimulate cellular clearance and reduce inflammation in the retinal pigment epithelium”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Patrick Barney

Undergraduate Student, Waisman Center; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Joe Phillips, Gamm Lab

Poster presented: “Biological and synthetic membranes for human induced pluripotent stem cell-based transplantation therapy.”

Daniel Albers Safir

Graduate Student, Computer Sciences, College of L&S Mentor: Michael Gleicher

Poster presented: “Lightness Constancy in Surface Visualization”

Maggie Maes

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Rob Nickells

Poster presented: “BAX oligomerization kinetics and its role in retinal ganglion cell death.”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Caitlin Mac Nair

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Rob Nickells

Poster presented: “ATP signalling pathways trigger glial activation in the mouse retina.”

Ennio Perez

Undergraduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Dave Gamm

Poster presented: “Investigating the role of VSx2 (CHX10) in human retinogenesis using iPS cells”

Karissa Tilbury

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Mentor: Paul Campagnola

Poster presented: “Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy and multiphoton fabrication”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Patrick Halbach

Graduate Student, Pediatrics, SMPH Mentor: Pattnaik & Pillers

Poster presented: “Oxytocin regulation of retinal epithelium cell function.”

Chi-Chieh Huang

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Mentor: Hongrui Jiang

Poster presented: “A bio-inspired cylindrical lens based on reflection from an array of micro-mirrors fabricated on a cylindrical flexible substrate”

Caitlin Mac Nair

Graduate Student Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Rob Nickells

Poster presented: “Attenuated glial activation after optic nerve crush in BAX-deficient mice”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Michelle Wilson

Graduate Student Surgical Sciences, SVM Mentors: Christopher Murphy and Paul Nealey

Poster presented: “Hydrogels with well-defined peptide-hydrogel spacing and concentration: Impact on epithelial cell behavior”

Bader Aldalali

Graduate Student Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Mentors: Li Zhang and Hongrui Jiang

Poster presented: “A micro camera utilizing a microlens array for multiple viewpoint imaging”

Erica Rosenbaum

Graduate Student, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH Mentor: Nansi Colley

Poster presented: “XPORT, an eye-specific chaperone for Rhodopsin and TRP, is essential for photoreceptor cell survival”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Brandon Smith

Graduate Student, Computer Sciences, L&S Mentor: Li Zhang

Poster presented: “Light field video stabilization”

Joel Shires

Graduate Student, Neuroscience, SMPH Mentor: Michele Basso

Poster presented: “Basal ganglia play a key role in spatial memory for eye movements”

Ryan Liegel

Graduate Student, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy at Medical College of Wisconsin Mentor: D.J. Sidjanin, MCW

Poster presented: “Blind sterile locus 2 (bs2) is a hypomorphic mutation in Agps”

Winner

Honorable Mentions

Greg Cipriano

Graduate Student, Computer Sciences, L&S Mentor: Michael Gleicher

Poster presented: “Molecular surface abstraction”

Xuefeng Zeng

Graduate Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Mentor: Hongrui Jiang

Poster presented: “An endoscope utilizing tunable-focus microlenses actuated through infrared light”

Feng Liu and Yuzhen Niu

Graduate Students, Computer Sciences, L&S Mentor: Michael Gleicher

Poster presented: “Exploring perceptual plausibility for vision and graphics applications”