Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among the spring semester 2020 applicants. …
Karen Schloss, Assistant Professor in UW–Madison’s Department of Psychology, has received a grant for $558,702 from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program. The award is for a project intended to advance the understanding of visual reasoning for visual communication. Visual reasoning enables people to translate visual input to abstract concepts. For example, …
McPherson ERI members are invited to avail themselves of this funding opportunity – detailed guidelines and an application form are linked. The McPherson ERI Grant Summit Program seeks to increase support for UW–Madison vision research by facilitating successful resubmissions of federal grant applications. Grant Summit Program guidelines and the application form provide details. Applications are …
With funding from Cycle for Sight as well as from the David G. Walsh Research Fellowship Fund, two David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards will be awarded to support graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers in Spring 2020. The application process is open to postdoctoral researchers and graduate students currently in training in any McPherson ERI …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce its fourth annual research grant competition for trainees whose principal investigator mentors are McPherson ERI members at UW–Madison or at another Wisconsin institution (including UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation). Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and medical or veterinary students …
Kevin Eliceiri, professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, plans to improve the architecture and infrastructure of μManager, an open-source software package for control of automated microscopes. Open-source software is crucial to modern scientific research for advancing biology and medicine while also providing reproducibility and transparency. Yet, even the most …
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 …
Thank you to all who attended and to all who displayed posters at the 11th annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Vision Science poster session on October 24th, including the sixteen students/trainees whose posters were considered for awards. The four judges noted the overall excellence of posters in this year’s competition! The “Best Student Presentation …
McPherson ERI/David G. Walsh Research Travel Awards provide funds for graduate students and postdocs from McPherson ERI members’ research groups to attend conferences to present vision-related work and to advance educational and professional development opportunities. The McPherson ERI Research Committee is pleased to announce two trainee award recipients from among fall semester 2019 applicants: Ryan Donahue, …