Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
MERI-at-a-Glance 2025 Friday, February 21st, 2025; Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Guest Speakers: Mohit Gupta (Computer Sciences) “Computer Vision, One Photon at a Time” Roomasa Channa (Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) “Leveraging AI to decrease disparities in diabetic eye disease ” Pallavi Tiwari (Radiology) “Artificial Intelligence and Computational Imaging: Opportunities for Precision Medicine” Elizabeth Liedhegner (Biomedical Sciences, …
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – 3571 WIMR II February, 2025 There will be no seminar this month so that we can bring you the MERI-at-a-Glance event on Friday, February 21st from Noon-2pm. More information on this event, including a list of speakers, talk titles, and a form to RSVP, can be found here:https://vision.wisc.edu/MERI-at-a-Glance/ Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 – …
Our 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture will take place in HSLC 1345 at 4pm on Thursday, November 14th, 2024! This year’s Albert Lecturer is Dr. David Wilson (Paul H Casey Chair of Ophthalmology, Casey Eye Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, OHSU), who will deliver the following lecture: “Pathological Surgery” Prior to the lecture, there …
16th Annual Vision Science Symposium Friday, October 25, 2024; HSLC Room 1345 Guest Speaker: Sönke Johnsen, PhD (Biology Department, Duke University) How our cognitive and sensory biases affect our study of vision: three tales from the sea
2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 13th, 2024; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Goldis Malek, PhD, FARVO, FAOPT (Duke Eye Center, Duke University) Potential Therapeutics for Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Nuclear Option
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Special Seminar: Three 15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipients TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2024 – 1360 BIOTECH
12th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, June 6th, 2024; Health Science Learning Center room 1306 Guest Speaker: Michael Dyer, PhD (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) Retinoblastoma: From Developmental Origins to Molecular Targeted Therapy
The new issue of InSights includes an extended piece on iPSC-derived retinal cell therapeutics and their road to clinical trials; a look at a MERI member’s work to develop new methods to assess vision in dogs; a snapshot of four MERI awardees in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences who are researching Retinitis Pigmentosa, Age-related Macular …
The McPherson ERI and the UW–Madison Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) are in the process of hiring a faculty member with a research program in AMD! The position lists PhD, MD, or MD/PhD as qualifications and at least 50% of their effort must be related to AMD research. The tenure home would be in DOVS. …