In 2025, we captured stories that celebrated those that drive discovery, education, and community collaboration forward at MCW. As we reflect on the past year, we’re highlighting the top 10 most-viewed MCW feature stories of 2025. Learn more:

The ARVO site is experiencing very high volume, affecting ability to renew membership and submit Annual Meeting abstracts. We are extending the abstract deadline to Dec. 8, 5pm US EST. Our site is operational, so please continue to submit today and over the next three days. bit.ly/4mJ2aRV

Ken Poss, who first discovered the fish could regenerate their heart tissue, moved his lab from Duke University to the Morgridge Institute at UW-Madison a year ago.

The chemotherapy drug doxorubicin helps patients by killing cancer cells, but it has also been shown to damage heart cells. MCW’s Dr. Chun Liu has set out to find how to protect them from this toxicity. Learn more: www.mcw.edu/mcwknowledge... #CardiovascularResearch #Research

Interested in getting a PhD in biomedical sciences? Apply for the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin! For full consideration please submit your application by December 5, 2025; www.mcw.edu/education/gr...

Are you or do you know a current undergraduate student who wants to pursue research? Our Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) application is now open! (reposting from the MCW Grad school X account) Apply here: admissions.mcw.edu/register/sum...

Today’s speaker in our DRN external seminar series is Dr Ryan MacDonald @macdonaldlab.bsky.social (University College London) Sponsored by the Physiological Society @physoc.bsky.social Host: Emily Noël @noelresearchlab.bsky.social All welcome!

You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...

For people with hemophilia A, a simple cut or bump can cause excessive bleeding or bruising. MCW’s Dr. David A. Wilcox is working with colleagues to develop a new #GeneTherapy that could transform how patients with the disease are treated. #Research Learn more: www.mcw.edu/mcwknowledge...

New preprints from the lab (3)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprints from the lab!! (2)

🎉 New preprints from the lab! (1) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Damaged retinal ganglion cells can lead to blindness. MCW’s Dr. Joel Miesfeld is conducting #research into the development of these cells to better identify ways to help them regenerate after damage. Learn more: www.mcw.edu/mcwknowledge... #Ophthalmology #VisionHealth #MCWKnowledge

A big thanks to the NEI for supporting my new R01 and MCW for highlighting the research focus. We’ve already made some interesting discoveries and I’m excited to see how the research progresses for years to come. www.mcw.edu/mcwknowledge...

Check out this 40x confocal image of a transgenic zebrafish eye showing UV (red) and blue cones (green), key for color vision. Zebrafish use UV vision for prey detection and navigation! Got interesting data or images? Send your science with a brief description to be featured!

Our work on the TET enzymes in retinal development is out. We identified that rod fate is inhibited when DNA demethylation is prevented by removal of the TET enzymes. Interestingly, photoreceptor numbers are normal. We utilized WGBS and bACE-seq to profile the precise localization of 5mC and 5hmC,…

🎉 MCW grad students: come to the GSA Welcome Social on Aug 22, 5–8 PM at Hoyt Park! 🥪 Free Jimmy John’s, 🎲 games, ☀️ good vibes 📝 RSVP by Aug 20 by scanning the QR code!

Should have included these two co-organizers in the original post @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social @aoiplab.bsky.social

Beautiful morning in Madison at #izfc2025! Grad student @nicholashaghani.bsky.social will talk today on models of ASD-DM candidate genes in the disease models session #genomejoggers

🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here: tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu Thank you for your patience!! #zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing

Madison-based Exact Sciences' story illustrates that basic research — combined with hard work, strong teams and enough money — can pay off in many ways.

Meet your 2025–26 GSA Officers & Reps! 👋 We’re here to keep you in the loop, host fun events 🎉, and represent your voice. Stay tuned for news, meeting reminders📅, monthly pet pics 🐾, science highlights 🔬 & more! Got ideas? DM or email us anytime! 😊

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

“Our results suggest that some axons regenerate along tracts of degenerating myelin debris. However, the topography of re-innervation is different after regeneration, suggesting that new axon tracts are created to restore functional vision.” New work from @pennylamphd.bsky.social et al. 🐠

See-through science: Danionella cerebrum as a model for neuroregeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653880v1

Dr. Kevin Emmerich, my former graduate student, will be presenting a summary of his thesis work as a finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Paper Prize from Development. Webinar is next Wednesday, May 28th: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

“Vision Science Team Building” not pictured: Just Dance competition @joelmiesfeld.bsky.social

Stop by A0265 today and say hi to @minagaffney.bsky.social - she’s sharing results from our AO corrected visual acuity project, made possible by a collaboration with @roordalab.bsky.social and Will Tuten.

A huge congratulations to Alex Gallo for a fantastic poster presentation today at #ARVO2025 !

So thrilled for Emily Woodruff, who just crushed her talk at #ARVO2025

@ismaelhdeznunez.bsky.social just gave a brilliant talk at #ARVO2025

The Retinal Development session at #ARVO2025 is just gorgeous. Adam Almeida gave a truly fantastic talk! 🤩

Come check out Hannah’s @arvoinfo.bsky.social poster (B500) at 3:15pm-retinal structure in Tyr gene edited 13-lined ground squirrels. #ARVO2025

Come check out Megan’s @arvoinfo.bsky.social poster (A128) at 3:15pm-iORG based measures of cone function in patients with early retinal pathology. #ARVO2025

Come check out Joey’s @arvoinfo.bsky.social poster (A135) at 3:15pm-mapping foveal cone density in people born prematurely. #ARVO2025

Celebrating a successful Utah Vision Science Symposium! A day of amazing science and people!

NIH R50 funding opportunity to provide salary support for Research Software Engineers who work on developing or disseminating biomedical-related software, tools, or algorithms. Next deadline is Weds 6/4/2025. Details: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

So you want to study the optic nerve head. You’re thinking a Pax2-Cre driver should work, right? Well, think again: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40300047/

Wanna grow organoids to understand human retinal development as a research assistant? Wanna help run the lab as a lab manager? The Johnston lab is hiring a research assistant/lab manager. If you are interested, please apply (also please share!): jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

Hey, visual neuroscientists 👋 Interested in hands-on training in modern techniques and building a lifelong network of colleagues and friends? Look no further! 🧠 Apply for the MBL's Visual Neuroscience course by March 19: bit.ly/4kn48HH #ScienceStartsHere

@arvoinfo.bsky.social is joining @standupforscience.bsky.social on March 7 in Washington, D.C., for its National Day of Action, advocating for science as a public good and a pillar of social/political/economic progress. RSVP to attend the DC rally or one in your local area. bit.ly/3EWYJqC

@macdonaldlab.bsky.social is a fantastic scientist doing cutting edge research in the field vision science glial biology. You will get fantastic training, get to do fun, high quality imaging and analysis amongst a variety of other techniques. I highly recommend looking into this opportunity.

We’re hiring a new research fellow. Come join us in London to study glial cells in the ageing retina using killifish as a model. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Today, @blockintheback.bsky.social's talk on eye cup development was a perfect blend of scientific depth and beauty — a truly inspiring presentation... that even included some performative dance! 😉

First post on this platform is to announce that our preprint is posted to bioRxiv: bioRxiv 2025.02.03.636318; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

MCW Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences is looking for a new chair! We have a great clinical and research environment in a very fun city. (Thanks @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social for already posting) Confidential nominations & inquiries to [email protected]

MCW Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences is looking for a new chair! We have a great clinical and research environment in a very fun city. Confidential nominations & inquiries to [email protected]