Spring Semester 2018
12:00 to 1:00 PM, 2nd Tuesdays
Please RSVP for pizza lunch to gmstirr@wisc.edu, 265-4023. Pizza is sponsored by EyeKor, Inc. and Ocular Services on Demand (OSOD), LLC, partnering with industry to accelerate the development of new therapies for ocular diseases.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571
Ground Squirrel as a Model for Human Vision
Dana Merriman, PhD (Biology, UW-Oshkosh)
A ground squirrel primer
Benjamin Sajdak, Doctoral Student & trainee member (Advanced Ocular Imaging Program, Medical College of Wisconsin; Carroll Lab)
Retinal imaging in the 13-lined ground squirrel
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Quantitative Approaches for Biomedical Data
Kevin Eliceiri, PhD (Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation; Morgridge Institute for Research)
Quantitative bioimage informatics
Vikas Singh, PhD (Biostatistics and Medical Informatics)
Algorithms for graph completion and their applications in vision and neuroimaging
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571
The Role of Expectations in Visual Perception
Emily Ward, PhD (Psychology)
Seeing and not seeing: Investigating the foundations of perception
Gary Lupyan, PhD (Psychology)
What you know changes what you see
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
MERI Trainee Award Recipients
Seung Heon Yoo, Doctoral Student (Human Development and Family Studies, Kirkorian lab; recipient, Walsh Research Travel Award)
Impact of background TV on children’s attention and toy play
Divya Sinha, PhD, trainee member (Waisman Center, Gamm lab; recipient, Best Presentation Award, 2017 Vision Sciences Poster Session)
Gene augmentation as a therapeutic approach for Best vitelliform macular dystrophy
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 – WIMR II conference room 3571
Imaging the Invisible
Mohit Gupta, PhD (Computer Sciences)
Measuring micro motions via laser speckle imaging
Andreas Velten, PhD (Biostatistics and Medical Informatics)
Ultra-fast vision systems: Imaging the motion of light to see around corners