It is our pleasure to announce the recipients of our second Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Awards competition, as well as the recipient of our very first Glaucoma and Optic Neuropathies Award competition. This year, Prof. Nader Sheibani and Assistant Prof. Ismail Zaitoun have won our two AMD Awards, Prof. Kimberly Stepien has won the RP Award, and Prof. Rob Nickells has won the …

Coat Protein Complex II (COPII) is an enormously important protein that is responsible for transporting approximately one third of all proteins that function in mammalian cells. In a recently published paper in Nature Communication, the Audhya team describes how, using genome editing and live cell imaging, they were able to identify that a single protein called Sec23 …

Research by MERI Director David Gamm’s laboratory has made the list of standout UW–Madison research in 2023! You can find more information about this work on lab-grown retinal cells here and in this article by Ludwig et al. published in Cell Reports.

 It is our pleasure to announce that Theo Bucci, Bikalpa Ghimire, Jake Khoussine, Michele Salzman, and Tania Sharmin are our 2023 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. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, led by …

Congratulations to McPherson ERI members Ari Rosenberg and Lowell W. Thompson on their recent publication ‘Hierarchical computation of 3D motion across macaque areas MT and FST! This paper, which was published yesterday in Cell Reports, reveals that the macaque middle temporal (MT) area is largely specialized for processing 2D retinal motion and the neighboring fundus of the superior temporal sulcus …

Graduate student Jake Khoussine won this year’s Vision Sciences Poster Presentation Competition with his poster “Retinal output dysfunction in a model of congenital stationary night blindness”. Graduate student Michele Salzman and Research intern Anoushka Kuckreja took home Honorable Mentions this year. Special thanks to both Nikon and the University Bookstore for supplying prizes for this …