MERI-at-a-Glance 2026 Friday, February 13th, 2026; DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building Guest Speakers Kevin Eliceiri (Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; CQCI) “The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis” David Herzfeld (Neuroscience) “The cerebellar circuit …
Seminars
Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 – 3571 WIMR Kushin Mukherjee, Postdoctoral Researcher (Cognitive Tools Lab, Stanford University) Cognitive Abstractions for Visual Communication Isabel Villanueva, Graduate Student (Life Sciences Communication, UW-Madison) The Art of Science Communication: How …
3rd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2025)
3rd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2025; HSLC 1345 Guest Speaker: M. Roy Wilson, MD (President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University) Why Do Some People Go Blind from Glaucoma and …
17th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2025)
17th Annual Vision Science Symposium Thursday, Oct. 9th, 2025; HSLC room 1345 Guest Speaker: Allison Sekuler (President & Chief Scientist, CABHI and Baycrest Academy for Research and Education at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care; Sandra …
3rd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture (2025)
3rd Annual Sandra Lemke Trout Lecture and Hybrid Grand Rounds Friday, September 12th, 2025; HSLC room 1345 and Zoom Guest Speaker: Emily Chew, MD (National Eye Institute) Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Update of AREDS and …
Vision Research Update 2025
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 …
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 …
2nd Annual Daniel M. Albert Lecture (2024)
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 …