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
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Jan31
MERI Outreach Training Session @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 9th Floor, WIMR II (1111 Highland Ave, Madison, WI, 53705) MERI Outreach page
This event will train Outreach volunteers (i) how to use our 5 Exploration Station kits (for use at various outreach events both on- and off-campus) and (ii) how to deliver our “In the dark and …
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Feb21
Annual MERI-at-a-Glance event @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm DeLuca Forum, WID https://vision.wisc.edu/meri-at-a-glance/
MERI-at-a-Glance is an annual pizza luncheon that gives our members, their graduate students/trainees, and lab associates the opportunity to hear brief research talks (~10 minutes in length) from other McPherson ERI members. These talks span widely …
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Mar11
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - March Speaker: Joel Miesfeld, PhD, Assistant Professor
Talk title: Mechanistic assessment of retinal ganglion cell genesis and survival.
Speaker: Miranda Scalabrino, PhD, Assistant Professor
Talk title: ON bipolar cell rewiring during photoreceptor degeneration.
RSVP Here @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II
Directions https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/ -
Apr08
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - April Speaker: Celia Bisbach, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Talk title: Can we help our own retinal cells remove disease-causing proteins?
Speaker: Miral Abdalaziz, PhD Candidate
Talk title: Brain rhythms modulate memories.
Speaker: Lauren Sarko, PhD Candidate
Talk title: Using Our Immune System to Fight Alzheimer's Disease
Speaker: Purnima Gogoi, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Talk title: Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Key to maintaining healthy retinal function.
Speaker: Lauren Kresser, PhD Candidate
Talk title: Practice makes perfect: understanding the interaction between vision and movement.
RSVP Here @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 1360 Biotech
Directions https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/ -
May13
MERI Monthly Seminar Series - May Speaker: Virginia Mathu, Research Assistant
Talk title: Probing the relationship between glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease in mouse models of comorbid disease
Speaker: Gillian McLellan, BVMS, PhD, DECVO, DACVO, Professor
Talk title: Intraocular pressure, neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in glaucoma
RSVP Here @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 3571 WIMR II
Directions https://vision.wisc.edu/current-seminar-series/ -
May29
Reception for 13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm HSLC Atrium (outside rm 1345, HSLC)
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May29
13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture (Dr. Shannon Boye, Univ. of Florida) Dr. Shannon Boye, Univ. of Florida @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Rm 1345, Health Sciences Learning Center