Seminar Series

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 – VIA ZOOM Yuyuan Wang, PhD (Sarah Gong Lab, Biomedical Engineering) Multifunctional nanocarriers for CRISPR gene-editing tool delivery Allison Ludwig, PhD Trainee (David Gamm Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Preclinical progress …

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Strategies to model and prevent age-related macular degeneration across the life span Ronald Gangnon, PhD (Biostatistics & Medical Informatics) Using multistate models to gain insights into …

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Ocular Hypertension: Findings from Modeling and Measuring Colleen McDowell, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Identification and characterization of a new mouse model of ocular hypertension and …

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 Attentional Control of Human Visual Working Memory Brad Postle, PhD (Psychology; Psychiatry) Attentional control of visual perception Qing Yu, PhD, Research Scientist (Postle Lab) Prioritizing the …

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571 McPherson Eye Research Institute: Looking Ahead David Gamm, MD, PhD, Institute Director (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Seeding Grant Success: The MERI Grant Summit Program Kevin …

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Ground Squirrel as a Model for Human Vision Dana Merriman, PhD (Biology, UW-Oshkosh) A ground squirrel primer   Benjamin Sajdak, Doctoral Student & trainee member …

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Extracellular Environment and Glaucoma Nader Sheibani, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) CYP1B1 and congenital glaucoma Donna Peters, PhD (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) Influence of extracellular …

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 – WIMR conference room 7001A Visual Cognitive Disorders Ari Rosenberg, PhD (Neuroscience) A computational perspective on altered visual cognition in autism Yuri Saalmann, PhD (Psychology) Thalamic dysfunction in cognitive control disorders …

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – WIMR conference room 7001A MERI Trainee Award Recipients, 2015 – 2016 Maggie Maes, graduate student (Nickells Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Best Student Presentation Award, Fall 2015; Walsh Research Travel …

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 – WIMR Conference room 7001A Toward Saving Sight Yao Liu, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) Advancing Tele-Ophthalmology screening for diabetic retinopathy in rural Wisconsin Jon Skarie, MD, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual …