This year’s event kicked off on Saturday, March 14th. 2026 is our fifteenth year of Cycle for Sight! Our kickoff event was on Saturday, March 14th, at the Princeton Club West, where teams and individuals cycled in …
MERI-at-a-Glance (2026)
MERI-at-a-Glance 2026 Friday, February 13th, 2026; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building Guest Speakers Kevin Eliceiri (Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; CQCI) “The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis” David Herzfeld (Neuroscience) “The cerebellar circuit …
MERI Member Donna Neumann Awarded NIH R01 to Advance HSV-1 Vision Research
MERI member Prof. Donna Neumann (DOVS) has been awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support her project, “A chromatin loop controls the …
McPherson Eye Research Institute Member Randy Bartels Featured in New Article on Quantum Imaging
We are pleased to share a newly published online article highlighting the work of McPherson Eye Research Institute member Randy Bartels. The article explores recent advances in quantum imaging and how this emerging approach could open a powerful …
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 …
McPherson ERI Fall 2025 InSights is out!
The latest issue of InSights features articles on a groundbreaking stem cell clinical trial, MERI’s Outreach accomplishments, and the establishment of the Alice R. McPherson Archives! Download the PDF Here
MERI members nominated for 2025 WARF Innovation Award!
Big news! A groundbreaking eye therapy developed by MERI trainee Celia Bisbach and MERI Director David Gamm has been nominated for a 2025 WARF Innovation Award! Designed to treat retinal diseases, this new approach targets …
Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, winner of a Dean’s Research Staff Award!
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dean’s Research Staff Awards honor outstanding contributions by research staff working in research laboratories. In 2025, the inaugural year of the awards, the award recipients …
Vision Science Symposium Lecture Recording Now Available
Thank you to everyone who attended our 17th Annual Vision Science Symposium, as well as our lecturer for the event, Dr. Allison Sekuler. If you missed the lecture, titled “Vision and the Brain: Towards Predictive …
3rd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2025)
3rd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2025; HSLC 1345 Guest Speaker: M. Roy Wilson, MD (President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University) Why Do Some People Go Blind from Glaucoma and …