Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
MERI-at-a-Glance Schedule Information. Date: Friday, February 23, 2024 Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm Location: DeLuca Forum, WID Talk title and speakers as follows: 1. Asst. Prof. Jennifer Choy (Electrical & Computer Engineering) – Quantum engineering with color centers in diamond 2. Dr. Andrew Haun (Center for Sleep & Consciousness, Psychiatry) – Visibility across the visual field 3. Asst. …
It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our 2023 David G. Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) Award! Made possible by the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Endowment Fund, GSSI provides McPherson ERI members 1-year grants of $12,000 to support the work of a graduate student. This year’s award recipients are Professor Gillian McLellan (Ophthalmology & …
It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our 2023 Distinguished Paper Award. This year, the McPherson ERI honored 5 trainees for their outstanding, published vision research. This year’s winners will be recognized during a short ceremony at our upcoming 2024 MERI-at-a-Glance event (Friday, February 23rd). Further information on them and their papers can be found here.
Freya Mowat Ever wonder what kind of TV shows your dog might choose if they could work the remote control? If so, check out this UW–Madison News article on McPherson ERI Member Freya Mowat’s research on canine vision. Prof. Mowat’s study, which began 2 years ago, focuses on uncovering the factors influencing dogs’ interest in interacting with …
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II FEBRUARY, 2024 There will be no seminar this month so that we can bring you the MERI-at-a-Glance event on Friday, February 23rd 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, …
It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our second Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Awards competition, as well as the recipient of our very first Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Award competition. This year, Prof. Nader Sheibani and Assistant Prof. Ismail Zaitoun have won our two AMD Awards, Prof. Kimberly Stepien has won the RP Award, and Prof. Rob Nickells has won the …
Coat Protein Complex II (COPII) is an enormously important protein that is responsible for transporting approximately one third of all proteins that function in mammalian cells. In a recently published paper in Nature Communication, the Audhya team describes how, using genome editing and live cell imaging, they were able to identify that a single protein called Sec23 …
Research by MERI Director David Gamm’s laboratory has made the list of standout UW–Madison research in 2023! You can find more information about this work on lab-grown retinal cells here and in this article by Ludwig et al. published in Cell Reports.
It is our pleasure to announce that Theo Bucci, Bikalpa Ghimire, Jake Khoussine, Michele Salzman, and Tania Sharmin are our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients! These one-year grants of $7500 each are funded by the Institute’s annual Cycle for Sight event, which raises money to support research in McPherson ERI member labs and programs. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, led by …
Congratulations to McPherson ERI members Ari Rosenberg and Lowell W. Thompson on their recent publication ‘Hierarchical computation of 3D motion across macaque areas MT and FST! This paper, which was published yesterday in Cell Reports, reveals that the macaque middle temporal (MT) area is largely specialized for processing 2D retinal motion and the neighboring fundus of the superior temporal sulcus …