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 …
9th Annual Vision Science Poster Session and Lecture Thursday, October 12th, 2017 – Health Sciences Learning Center Guest Speaker: Steven Seitz, Team Director of Google Seattle; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington Virtual Reality Video
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, …
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Extracellular Environment and Glaucoma Tuesday, October 10, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 MERI Trainee Award Recipients, Fall 2016 Tuesday, November 14, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571 Novel Imaging Capabilities Tuesday, December 12, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360 From Looking to Seeing: …
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 …