Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Join us to view scenes from all seasons, captured outdoors in settings local and far away, to brighten our days and engage our imaginations. Envisioning the Environment – Scenes from Plein Air Artists, opens on Thursday, January 19, 2023 with works from twelve Wisconsin artists: Marc Anderson, Chuck Bauer, Wendy Crone, Jim Faecke, Andy Fletcher, …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce recipients of the first annual McPherson ERI Distinguished Paper Award. Funded by the Cycle for Sight event, this award recognizes the outstanding work of our trainees and the breadth and depth of research conducted by Institute member laboratories. **Prizes will be awarded in a brief ceremony to be held at the upcoming MERI-At-A-Glance event on …
With funding provided by generous gifts from Roger and Lynn Van Vreede and from the Robert A. Brandt Macular Degeneration Fund, the McPherson ERI Leadership Committee is pleased to announce two awards of $50,000 each to advance research in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and one award of $50,000 to advance research in retinitis pigmentosa (RP). …
Lab-grown Retinal Cells Make Successful Connections…. Successful connections between several types of dish-grown retinal cells were established in the lab, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, a collaboration between the Gamm Lab (co-first-authors Allison Ludwig and Steven Mayerl) and Xinyu Zhao, PhD, is an essential …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 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 raises money to support research in McPherson ERI member labs and programs. David Barnett, MD, mentor Michelle Ciucci, PhD / Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD, …
The McPherson ERI was pleased to have its first back in-person Fall Vision Science Poster Session on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Best Student Presentation Award, Vision Science Zikang (John) Zhu, graduate student (Neuroscience; Ari Rosenberg, PhD, mentor). “Differential Clustering of Visual, Choice-, and Saccade-Related Activity in Macaque V3A and CIP” Prize: Zeiss Terra ED 42 Binoculars, generously donated …
The McPherson Eye Research Institute is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 Walsh Research Travel Award recipients. These awards are generously supported by the David G. Walsh endowment. Recipients will receive up to $1000 in registration and travel fees to attend and present vision-related research at a professional conference or symposium. Jacob Khoussine, graduate student (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Mrinalini Hoon, …
Posted on December 30, 2022 McPherson ERI’s 14th Annual Vision Science Lecture and Fall Poster Session Draws a Crowd Dan-Erik Nilsson, PhD, spoke on The Evolution of Eyes and Vision.
Winners of the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Annual Cool Science Image Contest used various techniques to create artistic scientific images – some of the most diverse in the contest’s history! Each work is currently displayed and open to the public at the 9th floor of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) building. Read …
The increased interest and success in using gene-editing techniques to treat ocular diseases has inspired collaboration between scientists of UW–Madison’s McPherson ERI, Morgridge Institute for Research, and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Read the full article here