Working Together to Understand, Protect and Restore Vision
Biography Advisor: David Gamm, MD, PhD Keywords: Choroideremia, inherited retinal disorders, stem cell therapy Education BS 2014, Biology, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2017, Human Stem Cell Technologies Certificate, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI Research Ms. Edwards’ work is focused on understanding the underlying pathobiological mechanisms of a disease called choroideremia. Her long-term career …
Biography Keywords: Mitochondrial signaling, photobiomodulation, retinal degernation Education BS 1973, Microbiology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID MS 1976, Pharmacology/Microbiology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID PhD 1981, Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Postdoctoral Fellowship 1981-83, Pharmacology/Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Postdoctoral Fellowship 1984-86, Neurotoxicology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Research The Role of …
Biography Keywords: Cellular microenvironment, cancer imaging, multiscale imaging, imaging instrumentation, biophotonics, image informatics, image analysis, and software development Education BS 1996, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison MS 1998, Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Post-graduate training, 1998-2000, National Integrated Microscopy Resource, Madison, WI PhD 2015, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Interests Dr. Eliceiri’s research interests …
Biography Education BA 1971, Interdisciplinary Social Science, University of South Florida MS 1981, Behavioral Disabilities, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Interests Marshall Flax retired from the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired, where he worked since 1992 – most recently as Director of Vision Rehabilitation Services. He now provides orientation and mobility services as founder …
Biography Education BA 2004, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ MA 2006, Experimental Psychology: Cognition and Perception, New York University, NY, NY PhD 2009, Experimental Psychology: Cognition and Perception, New York University, NY, NY PostDoc 2009-2012, Visual Perception and Learning, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Research The law of good continuation – one of the …
Biography Keywords: Stem cells, retina, inherited retinal degenerations (including retinitis pigmentosa), macular degenerations (including AMD), and retinal disease modeling and treatment Education BS 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI MD 1998, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI PhD 1998, Neurosciences, University of Michigan School of Graduate Studies, Ann Arbor, MI Ophthalmology Residency, …
Biography Education: BA 1992, Mathematics & Economics, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN MS 1994, Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI PhD 1998, Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Research Interests: Dr. Gangnon collaborated with Dr. Matthew Davis on the development of severity scales for age-related macular degeneration using tree-structured models and for diabetic macular edema …
Biography Education: PhD Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, 1987 Post-Doctoral, Biophysics, ENEA, Rome, Italy, 1987-1988 Research Dr. Gilbert is interested in color vision and teaching physics in the arts, and developed a new way to interpret additive color mixing. Other interests include biomineralization, cancer therapy, and protein misfolding and aggregation. TED Talk
Biography Education B.S.E. 1988, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Duke University M.S. 1991, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University PhD 1994, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Research Interests The overall goal of Dr. Gleicher’s research is to create tools that make it easier to create pictures, video, animation, and virtual environments; and to make these visual …
Biography Education BA 1988, Psychobiology, University of California-Santa Cruz PhD 1995, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Post-doctoral fellow 1995-2000, Developmental Neurobiology, University of California-San Diego Research Interests The long-term objective of Dr. Gomez’s research is to better understand the intracellular signals and effector mechanisms that control the extension and guidance of axons during development. Neural …