Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Guest Lecturers Bring Neuromagic to the HSLC McPherson ERI’s annual event showcasing vision-related research was held on Tuesday, November 3rd, drawing more than 100 participants to the atrium of the Health Sciences Learning Center. Following the poster session, Drs. Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik (Professors at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City and …
The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two award recipients—one graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher— from among a strong and diverse field of fall semester 2015 applicants: Mitra Farnoodian, graduate student (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, SMPH; Nader Sheibani, mentor), will attend the April 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego, CA. Her …
Dr. Alice McPherson was presented with UW–Madison’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor given by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, at the Chancellor’s Luncheon on Thursday, October 15th. In announcing the award, the WAA cited Dr. McPherson’s establishment of the Retina Research Foundation, along with her “impressive” support for the University of Wisconsin (including her critical …
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2014 – 2015 Tuesday, October 13, 2015 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Visualizing Virtual Reality Tuesday, November 10, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A Imaging and Retinal Vascular Function Tuesday, December 8, 2015 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Christianson Macular Degeneration Research …
Nader Sheibani, Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and holder of the Retina Research Foundation Alice R. McPherson Research Chair, focuses on developing strategies to counter the abnormal growth of blood vessels that is at the heart of AMD (age-related macular degeneration) and diabetic retinopathy – two of the leading causes of …
In recognition of their extraordinary support for the McPherson ERI, the 9th floor conference room in WIMR (within the Mandelbaum & Albert Family Vision Gallery) has been named in honor of Sandra and Monroe Trout. Dr. and Mrs. Trout are distinguished patrons of the arts and sciences who have endowed faculty positions within the McPherson …
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have extensively researched how the brain processes illusion and magic. Their findings, based on the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, are critical to understanding sensory perception and curing various neural …
Medical students Preshita S. Date and Minh T. Nguyen have each been awarded inaugural Dan and Ellie Albert Student Vision Research Awards, supported by the Dan and Ellie Albert Fund in conjunction with the Shapiro Summer Research Program. Date will work with Drs. Barbara Blodi and Amitha Domalpally on a project involving Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from MERI members’ research groups to attend research conferences to present vision-related work. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two outstanding award recipients. Congratulations to both award recipients, who will be invited to speak in the McPherson …
3rd Annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Endowed Lecture Monday, May 18, 2015 – Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences Building Guest Speaker: Sheila Nirenberg, PhD A Prosthetic Eye to Treat Blindness