Research by MERI Director David Gamm’s laboratory has made the list of standout UW-Madison research in 2023! You can find more information about this work on lab-grown retinal cells here and in this article by Ludwig et al. published in Cell Reports.
Research 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Award Winners!
It is our pleasure to announce that Theo Bucci, Bikalpa Ghimire, Jake Khoussine, Michele Salzman, and Tania Sharmin are our 2023 Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant recipients! These one-year grants of $7500 each are funded by the Institute’s annual Cycle for Sight event, which …
New MERI-funded research just published in Cell Reports
Congratulations to McPherson ERI members Ari Rosenberg and Lowell W. Thompson on their recent publication ‘Hierarchical computation of 3D motion across macaque areas MT and FST! This paper, which was published yesterday in Cell Reports, reveals that the macaque …
Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition!
Graduate student Jake Khoussine won this year’s Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition with his poster “Retinal output dysfunction in a model of congenital stationary night blindness”. Graduate student Michele Salzman and Research intern Anoushka Kuckreja …
Computational tool helps uncover gene networks of cell fate
Computational tool helps uncover gene networks of cell fate A recently published study from the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (WID), titled Inference of cell type-specific gene regulatory networks on cell lineages from single cell omic …
NEW PUBLICATION: Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy
Nonviral base editing of KCNJ13 mutation preserves vision in a model of inherited retinal channelopathy We are pleased to announce that a new study, with contributions by several MERI members, has just been published in …
Dr. Julie Mares retires after 32 years of research and service
Emerging Technologies at UW-Madison Get Boost from State Funds
Emerging technologies at UW-Madison Get Boost from State Funds Emerging technologies developed at UW–Madison will receive funding assistance as the result of an on-campus grant program administered by UW–Madison’s Discovery to Product (D2P) and a …