Category: Seminars

Fall 2017 Seminar Series

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Extracellular Environment and Glaucoma Tuesday, October 10, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 MERI Trainee Award Recipients, Fall 2016 Tuesday, November 14, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Novel Imaging Capabilities Tuesday, December 12, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 From Looking to Seeing: …

5th Annual Endowed Lecture

5th Annual Endowed Lecture – Thursday, April 27, 2017 Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1335 José-Alain Sahel, MD, PhD Shooting in the Dark: Maintaining cone function in retinal degenerations

Spring 2017 Seminar Series

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 – WIMR conference room 7001A Visual Cognitive Disorders Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Ocular Biology/Pathology in the Lens and Cornea Tuesday, March 14, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Mitochondrial Dynamics Tuesday, April 11, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Canine Spontaneous Ocular Disorders and Parallel …

8th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2016)

8th Annual Vision Science Poster Session Tuesday, October 4th, 2016; HLSC 1335 Guest Speaker: Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility; Professor of Media Arts & Technology and Music, University of California, Santa Barbara Harnessing Sight and Sound to Explore Complex Information

Fall 2016 Seminar Series

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2015 – 2016   Tuesday, October 11, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Color Perception   Tuesday, November 8, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A Tissue Engineering Methodology   Tuesday, December 13, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology room 1360 Options for Children with Congenital …

4th Annual Endowed Lecture (2016)

4th Annual Endowed Lecture – Thursday, April 28, 2016 DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Building, Room 1211

MERI-at-a-Glance Highlights the Range of McPherson ERI Research Interests

MERI-at-a-Glance successfully took place on February 19th at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (WID), where eight short research talks were presented. Vision-related findings and interests were shared from cataracts and glaucoma, viral gene delivery to therapeutic stem cell interventions, and computational optics to toddlers and TV. These McPherson ERI members presented at MERI-at-a-Glance: Ariel Alperstein, …

Spring 2016 Seminar Series

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 – WIMR Conference room 7001A Toward Saving Sight   Tuesday, February 9, 2016 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cells   Tuesday, March 8, 2016 – (WIMR Conference room 7001A) Recipients: Christenson AMD Fund/Morgridge Institute for Research Award & Walsh Travel Award   Tuesday, April 12, 2016 – …

7th Annual Vision Science Symposium (2015)

7th Annual Vision Science Poster Session & Lecture Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015; HSLC Atrium Professors Susana Martinez-Conde & Stephen Macknik State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions

Fall 2015 Seminar Series

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2014 – 2015 Tuesday, October 13, 2015 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Visualizing Virtual Reality Tuesday, November 10, 2015 – WIMR conference room 7001A Imaging and Retinal Vascular Function Tuesday, December 8, 2015 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Christianson Macular Degeneration Research …