Category: Seminars

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 , 2021 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2021

Join us for Virtual MERI-at-a-Glance Talks, Friday, February 26th at Noon

2020 Virtual MERI-at-a-Glance, Friday, February 26th  MERI-at-a-Glance is an annual event (on Zoom this year due to the pandemic) that highlights the breadth of vision research conducted by McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison and other campuses.  Speakers give a brief overview of the type of research performed in their lab. These quick talks offer an …

Spring 2021 Seminar Series

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2021 – VIA ZOOM Walsh Research Travel Award Recipients TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 – VIA ZOOM

8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture (2020)

8th Annual MERI Endowed Lecture November 12th, 2020; Virtual Guest Speaker: John Gerard Flannery, PhD (Neurobiology Division, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, The School of Optometry, University of California, Berkley; Vice Chair, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA; Vice Chair, Fighting Blindness, Ireland) Engineering “gene-independent” therapies for blindness

12th Annual Vision Science Symposium (Fall Trainee Symposium) (2020)

Fall Trainee Symposium Thursday, October 15th, 2020; Zoom Guest Speakers:

Fall 2020 Seminar Series

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020 – VIA ZOOM Walsh Research Travel Award Recipients, Spring 2019 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 – VIA ZOOM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2020 – VIA ZOOM *Sponsored by EyeKor, Inc. and Ocular Services on Demand (OSOD), LLC, partnering with industry to accelerate the development of new …

Spring 2020 Seminar Series

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Strategies to model and prevent age-related macular degeneration across the life span Tuesday, February 11, 2020 – WIMR II conference room 3571 The Joy of Learning . . . and Sharing Tuesday, March 10, 2020 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Autism Spectrum Disorders – Bridging behavioral …

MERI-at-a-Glance 2019

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 Symposium (2019)

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

Fall 2019 Seminar Series

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 – …