Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Brian Allen and Caitlin MacNair, graduate students from McPherson ERI members’ research groups, have been chosen from an excellent and diverse field of applicants to receive McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards. These awards provide funds to attend research conferences, in order to present vision-related work and advance educational and professional development opportunities. Congratulations …
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A Harnessing Light for Diagnosis and Therapy Tuesday, February 10, 2015- Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2014 Tuesday, March 10, 2015- WIMR conference room 7001A Genomics and Biology of Myopia Tuesday, April 14, 2015- Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Methods for Studying Visual Function Tuesday, …
Two McPherson ERI members from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences were the recent recipients of $25,000 grant awards from the James Christensen Estate Macular Degeneration Research Fund. The fund, established by a generous estate gift, was created to support research on age-related macular degeneration on campus. Year-long funding will advance AMD research by …
6th Annual Vision Science Poster Session – Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 Distinguished Guest Lecturer: Hany Farid (Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College) Photo Forensics
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2013-2014 Tuesday, October 14, 2014 – WIMR conference room 7001A Approaches to Meeting Blind and Low Vision Needs Tuesday, November 11, 2014 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Microscopy for Medical Applications Tuesday, December 9, 2014 – WIMR conference room 7001A Teaching and …
The spring 2014 McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards, which provide funds for graduate students to attend research conferences in order to present vision-related work, have been announced; recipients will also speak in the McPherson ERI seminar series in spring 2015.
5th Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session September 26th, 2013; Health Science Learning Center room 1325 Guest Speaker: Thomas Cronin (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland-Baltimore County) Incredible Eyes: The Visual World of Mantis Shrimps
1st Annual MERI Endowed Lecture April 22, 2013; Ebling Symposium Center Room 1220 Guest Speaker: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD; Professor of the Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Scientist, Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Gene Therapy for LCA (Leber Congenital Amaurosis: …
3rd Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session October 18, 2011; Health Sciences Learning Center room 1306 Guest Speaker: Gordon Gund History and Progress of the Foundation Fighting Blindness
2nd Annual Vision Science & Visual Art Poster and Gallery Session Tuesday, September 28th, 2010; Health Sciences Learning Center room 1335 Guest speaker: Dr. Michael Marmor, Stanford University The Artist’s Eyes: Vision and the History of Art