MERI-at-a-Glance is an annual luncheon that gives our members, their graduate students/trainees/lab associates, and our campus colleagues the opportunity to hear brief research talks (~10 minutes in length) from other McPherson ERI members. These talks span widely different areas of vision-related research and showcase the most current work of our membership.
This year’s MERI-at-a-Glance event will take place on Friday, February 13th, 2026 from 12:00pm-2:00pm in the DeLuca Forum of the Discovery Building (330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715). If you plan to attend, please RSVP below before Friday, February 6th so that we can order enough lunch and refreshments for everyone. Lunch service will begin at 11:45am.
This year’s event will feature the following speakers/talks:
- Kevin Eliceiri (Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering; CQCI)
“The ImageJ ecosystem: An open platform for biomedical image analysis” - David Herzfeld (Neuroscience)
“The cerebellar circuit computations underlying smooth pursuit eye movements” - Abhishek Kumar (Cell and Regenerative Biology; CQCI)
“Visible Hyperspectral Microscopy for Retinal Imaging” - Rosa Lafer-Sousa (Psychology)
“Behavioral Optogenetics as a Tool for Studying Visual Perception” - Yuhang Zhao (Computer Sciences)
“AI-assisted Vision: Context-aware systems to empower people with low vision”
Wondering how to get to the MERI-at-a-Glance location? Click the button below below for a map to the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
Click the button below to download the pdf of this year’s MERI-at-a-Glance schedule.