Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
McPherson ERI’s MERI-at-a-Glance event, which highlighted the breadth of vision research conducted by MERI members, took place at WID on Friday, November 22nd. Eight McPherson ERI members gave short scientific presentations, alongside a pizza lunch and time for networking and discussion. This year’s MERI-at-a-Glance presenters were: Akihiro Ikeda, DVM, PhD (Medical Genetics), Loss of chondroitin …
11th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Thursday Oct 24th, 2019; Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Margaret S. Livingstone (Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School) What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Ocular Hypertension: Findings from Modeling and Measuring Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – WIMR II conference room 3571 New Imaging Tools: Prospects and Applications Tuesday, November 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Mining Patient Datasets: Impact on Healthcare and Clinical Trials Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – …
Vision at the Vet School: How Dogs See Saturday, June 1st, 2019; Renk Learning Center, School of Veterinary Medicine Guest Speakers: Ellison Bentley, DVM (Clinical Professor, Comparative Ophthalmology) Uchenna Nledbedum, DVM, MS (COPLOW Fellow, Pathobiological Sciences)
7th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture May 6, 2019; Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Guest Speaker: Charles Zuker, PhD (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) From Receptors to Behavior
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Attentional Control of Human Visual Working Memory Tuesday, March 12, 2019 – WIMR II conference room 3571 One Health/One Vision: A Comparative Approach to Understanding Glaucoma Pathophysiology Tuesday, April 9, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Communicating Your Science Beyond Your Field – In Lay Language! …