Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
In a report in the August 5th, 2019 issue of Nature, Assistant Professor Andreas Velten and his colleagues describe recent advances in the ability to capture images around barriers – a long-term goal brought closer by their recent work.
The McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Research and Leadership Committees are pleased to announce that Michael Landowski, PhD, and Kazuya Oikawa, BVSc, are the 2019 recipients of the Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Trainee Grants. Michael Landowski, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Aki Ikeda’s lab group in the Department of Medical Genetics. He will pursue a project …
Vision at the Vet School: How Dogs See Saturday, June 1st, 2019; Renk Learning Center, School of Veterinary Medicine Guest Speakers: Ellison Bentley, DVM (Clinical Professor, Comparative Ophthalmology) Uchenna Nledbedum, DVM, MS (COPLOW Fellow, Pathobiological Sciences)
The Morgridge Institute for Research recently highlighted a collaboration between two McPherson ERI vision scientists, Melissa Skala at UW–Madison and Joseph Carroll at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Read more about both scientists in McPherson ERI’s Insights: Melissa Skala from Summer 2017, Joseph Carroll from Spring 2019.
7th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture May 6, 2019; Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Guest Speaker: Charles Zuker, PhD (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) From Receptors to Behavior