Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
MERI-at-a-Glance featured short presentations by eight McPherson ERI-affiliated researchers on Friday, December 8th. Friday, December 8th 2017, 11:45 am to 2:00 pm DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery “MERI-at-a-Glance” was a program of eight short research presentations (10 minutes each) sharing vision-related findings and interests. Research presentations included:
Recently, the Institute underwent a transition in the Associate Director position, which offers an opportunity to highlight two of McPherson ERI’s extraordinary scientists and leaders. The Associate Director serves as an important link to McPherson ERI members and plays a key role in encouraging vision research collaborations. For the past five years, Dr. Aki Ikeda …
A team of McPherson ERI scientists headed by Dr. David Gamm was recognized by the National Eye Institute as part of an initiative aimed at improving the production of human 3D retina structures grown from stem cells, a technology developed using human cells by McPherson ERI Director and lead investigator David Gamm. The UW–Madison team, …
Close to 100 McPherson ERI members and associates attended the 9th Annual Vision Science Poster Session on Thursday, October 12th. The session was immediately followed by the McPherson ERI distinguished guest lecturer, Professor Steven Seitz of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (and Seattle Team Director at Google Seattle). There …
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging tool commonly used in the eye for screening, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the retina and cornea. Used regularly by researchers in the eye and vision community to better understand diseases in the human eye, OCT is also used in multiple animal eye models. OCT can quickly …