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 …

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 …

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jacob Khoussine, PhD student (Cellular and Molecular Biology and Medical Scientist Training Program, UW–Madison) Mechanisms of retinal output dysfunction in congenital stationary night blindness John Zhu, PhD …

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024 – 3571 WIMR II Jenna Nagy, PhD student (2022 Kenzi Valentyn Award Recipient; Neuroscience / Cellular & Molecular Training Program, UW–Madison) Presynaptic inhibition shapes retinal circuit output Raunak Sinha, PhD, Associate …

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II Yin Li, PhD, Assistant Professor (2022 Expanding Our Vision Award Recipient, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Computer Sciences, UW—Madison) Towards Medical Video Analytics Mikhail Kats, PhD, Associate Professor …

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2023 – 3571 WIMR II Yong‐Seok Song, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher (2021 GSSI Recipient, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UW–Madison) CYP1B1 and Regulation of Retinal Iron Homeostasis Nader Sheibani, PhD, Professor (2021 GSSI Recipient, …

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 Seminar replaced by re-scheduled McPherson Endowed Lecture: Dr. Michael Chiang, Director of the National Eye Institute Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Eye Care: Perspectives from the National Eye Institute Monday, …

  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022 – VIA ZOOM Leigh Mrotek, PhD, Research Professor (2020 Expanding Our Vision Award Recipient; Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin) Look Before You Reach Yuhang Zhao, …

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 , 2021 Ralph W. Nelson (2020 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant Recipient; Mason Lab, Kinesiology, UW–Madison) The effects of dual‐task interference and visual attention in autistic and non‐ autistic youth Yin Li …

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2021 – VIA ZOOM Walsh Research Travel Award Recipients Mengguo Jing (Fall 2019 Walsh Research Travel Award; Kirkorian Lab, Human Development & Family Studies) The effect of comprehensibility on saliency-based gaze …