Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 – 3571 WIMR February, 2026 There will be no seminar this month so that we can bring you the MERI-at-a-Glance event on Friday, February 13th from noon- 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 – 3571 WIMR Special Seminar: Three ~15-minute research talks by our Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Award recipients. Tuesday, …
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 computations underlying smooth pursuit eye movements” Abhishek Kumar (Cell and Regenerative Biology; CQCI) “Visible Hyperspectral Microscopy for Retinal Imaging” Rosa …
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 – 3571 WIMR Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 – 1360 Biotech Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 – 3571 WIMR Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 – 1360 Biotech
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 Others Do Not? Rethinking the Role of Race
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 A Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor, UT & McMaster) Vision and the Brain: Towards Predictive Neuroscience for Precision Aging
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 AREDS2
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 and included a Q&A session where members of the public could ask any questions they had on vision research and …
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 of Florida) Optimizing viral gene delivery for the treatment of X-linked retinoschisis
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 – …