Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Vision Research Update! The talk, which was given by Dr. David Gamm, covered the Institute’s recent work on inherited retinal disease and age-related macular degeneration …
Seminars
13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture (2025)
13th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture Thursday, May 29th; HSLC Room 1345 Guest Speaker: Shannon E. Boye, PhD (George H. Kitzman Professor of Genetics; Chief, Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, University …
MERI-at-a-Glance (2025)
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 …
Spring 2025 Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – 3571 WIMR II Kimberly Edwards, Graduate Research Assistant (Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Waisman Center) Robust generation of photoreceptor-dominant retinal organoids from porcine induced pluripotent stem cells Andrew Miller, PhD, Postdoctoral …
2024 2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture
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 …
16th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2024)
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 …
2nd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture (2024)
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 …
Fall 2024 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jacob Khoussine, PhD student (Cellular and Molecular Biology and Medical Scientist Training Program, UW–Madison) Mechanisms of retinal output dysfunction in congenital stationary night blindness John Zhu, PhD …
12th Annual Alice R. McPherson Lecture (2024)
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
MERI-at-a-Glance 2024
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 …