McPherson ERI’s MERI-at-a-Glance event, which highlighted the breadth of vision research conducted by MERI members, took place at WID on Friday, November 22nd. Eight McPherson ERI members gave short scientific presentations, alongside a pizza lunch …
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11th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2019)
11th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Thursday Oct 24th, 2019; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Margaret S. Livingstone (Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School) What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain
Fall 2019 Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Ocular Hypertension: Findings from Modeling and Measuring Colleen McDowell, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Identification and characterization of a new mouse model of ocular hypertension and …
Vision at the Vet School (2019)
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 …
7th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (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 …
Spring 2019 Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Attentional Control of Human Visual Working Memory Brad Postle, PhD (Psychology; Psychiatry) Attentional control of visual perception Qing Yu, PhD, Research Scientist (Postle Lab) Prioritizing the …
MERI-at-a-Glance on November 30th
On Friday, November 30th, McPherson ERI members, their trainees and lab associates gathered at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) for MERI-at-a-Glance — eight short research presentations (10 minutes each) sharing vision-related findings and interests. The …
10th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2018)
10th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Tuesday October 16th, 2018; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Jeremy M. Wolfe (Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Visual Attention Lab, Brigham & Women’s Hospital) OMG, I did …
Fall 2018 Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571 McPherson Eye Research Institute: Looking Ahead David Gamm, MD, PhD, Institute Director (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Seeding Grant Success: The MERI Grant Summit Program Kevin …
Spring 2018 Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Ground Squirrel as a Model for Human Vision Dana Merriman, PhD (Biology, UW-Oshkosh) A ground squirrel primer Benjamin Sajdak, Doctoral Student & trainee member …