McPherson Eye Research Institute
Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision

Calendar

Below you’ll find a calendar of MERI events (left), as well as a calendar listing important dates regarding our Award Opportunities (right).

If you’d like a calendar invite for a given event, award release, or award deadline, just click on that event’s title. You’ll be taken to a page where you can click a ‘Download event’ button to receive the calendar invite. Once downloaded, just right click the invite file and select the calendar into which you’d like to import the invite (e.g., Microsoft outlook, icalendar, etc.)

If you’d like more details about the event or award opportunity, click the hypertext ‘Click here for…’ within that calendar entry.

For convenience, all award opportunity entries use color-coded text to indicate which of our membership are eligible to apply (e.g., trainees, UW faculty/permanent PIs, UW staff, non-UW faculty, etc.).

Upcoming Events

  • Oct
    17

    Deadline to register to attend or present at the Vision Sciences Symposium Poster session HSLC Atrium
    Vision Sciences Symposium webpage

    If you would like to attend our 16th Annual Vision Sciences Symposium Poster Session and Lecture (Oct 25th in HSLC), or would like to both attend AND present a poster at the symposium, then please …

  • Oct
    25

    16th Annual Vision Science Symposium - Poster Session & Distinguished Lecture Lecturer: Dr. Sönke Johnsen (Dept of Biology, Duke University) @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm HSLC Atrium (Poster Session) & HSLC 1345 (Lecture)

    Our 16th Annual Vision Science Symposium Poster Session and Distinguished Lecture will take place on Friday, October 25th, 2024. The Poster Session and reception will occur from 1:30pm-4:00pm in the HSLC Atrium. At 4:00pm, Distinguished …

  • Nov
    12

    MERI Monthly Seminar Series - November Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients

    Speaker: Mason Shipley, PhD student
    Talk title: The LAT Enhancer of HSV-1 is Required for Anterograde Transport Gene Expression During Reactivation

    Speaker: Praveen Susaimanickam, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
    Talk title: Defining the molecular signature of red/green cone photoreceptor precursors using a novel human pluripotent stem cell cone-rod reporter line

    Speaker: Serena Wisner, PhD student
    Talk title: Role of photoreceptor input for synapse formation across inner retinal neurons

    RSVP Here     @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II
    Directions
    https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/

  • Nov
    14

    Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Our 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4pm on Thursday, November 14th, 2024! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Dr. David Wilson (Paul H Casey Chair of Ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, OHSU) .

    Prior to the lecture, there will be a catered reception from 3:00 - 4:00pm in the HSLC Atrium.     @ 4:00 pm HSLC 1345
    Event Page

  • Dec
    10

    MERI Monthly Seminar Series - December Speaker: Meha Kabra, OD, Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Chief of the Vision Rehabilitation Clinic
    Talk title: Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy

    Speaker: Bilge Mutlu, PhD, Professor
    Talk title: Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Experience the World through Embodied AI

    RSVP Here     @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 1360 Biotech
    Directions
    https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/

  • Jan
    10

    Vision Gallery Fall Exhibition Closing Date - 2024 Cool Science Images Contest Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, 9th Floor, 1111 Highland Avenue 53705
    Vision Gallery webpage

    Last day to see our 2024 Cool Science Image Contest exhibition. A panel of experienced artists, scientists and science communicators chose 12 winning images based on the aesthetic, creative and scientific qualities that distinguished them …

Award Opportunities