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

  • Apr
    08

    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/

  • May
    13

    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/

  • May
    29

    Reception for 13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm HSLC Atrium (outside rm 1345, HSLC)

  • May
    29

    13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Dr. Shannon Boye, Univ. of Florida @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Rm 1345, Health Sciences Learning Center

    Speaker: Dr. Shannon Boye, Ph.D Talk title: Development of a laterally spreading AAV capsid for safe and effective treatment of X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) Abstract: Mutations in RS1 are associated with X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS), a common cause of …

  • Jul
    09

    2025 StoryForm Course @ 1:00 pm - @ 4:00 pm https://storyformscience.com/summercourse

    Scientists’ ability to secure funding, work with collaborators, influence policy and educate both their peers and the public depends on their ability to communicate their work in ways that are both effective and engaging. This …

Award Opportunities

There are no upcoming events.