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 23
    Seminar – Anand Swaroop, PhD

    Dr. Anand Swaroop

    John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216

    About the Speaker: Dr. Anand Swaroop obtained his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore–both in India. After completing his postdoctoral training at Yale University in molecular biology and human genetics, he joined the faculty at the University of …

  • Nov 10
    MERI Monthly Seminar Series – November

    Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients

    3571 WIMR II Directions

  • Nov 12
    Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture

    Speaker: David Huang, MD, PhD Director of Research, Casey Eye Institute; World Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmic Imaging; Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University

    HSLC 1325 Event Page

    Reception in the HSLC Atrium, 3-4 pm Talk Title: Seeing Small and Aiming Big: The Development and Clinical Impact of Optical Coherence Tomography  Abstract: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a technology invented in 1991 to image small critical tissue structures with micrometer resolution. It is widely used in eye and coronary heart diseases. I will …

  • Dec 8
    MERI Monthly Seminar Series – December

    1360 Biotech Directions

  • Feb 26
    Annual MERI-at-a-Glance event

    DeLuca Forum, WID

    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 different areas of vision-related research and showcase the most current work of our membership.

  • Mar 13
    Cycle for Sight 2027 Kickoff

    Princeton Club West

  • May 20
    15th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture

    Prof. Bart Leroy, MD, PhD

    HSLC 1325 Event Page

    Our 15th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture will take place in HSLC 1325 at 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 20th, 2027! This year’s lecturer is Prof. Bart Leroy, MD, PhD (Professor of Ophthalmology, Ghent University), who will deliver the following lecture: “Title TBA” Abstract: Pending Prior to the lecture, there will be a catered reception from 3:00 …

Award Opportunities