2017-2018
Talks are held on Mondays from 12:15pm - 1:30pm on the dates listed, in Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building).
We encourage graduate students and postdocs to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact Jessica Marcus (jmarcus@upenn.edu) to sign up.
Fall 2017
Monday, September 11:
Hemant Khanna
Departments of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts
Molecular Mechanisms and Treatment Strategies for Retinal Ciliopathies
Monday, September 25:
Andrew Huberman
Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Linking Emotion, Perception and Behavioral Decision Making in the Visual System
Monday, October 16:
Michael Berry
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Predictive Coding of Novel versus Familiar Stimuli in the Primary Visual Cortex
Monday. October 30:
Christine Curcio
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Histologically Validated Clinical Visualization of the Neurodegeneration and Gliosis of Age-related Macular Degeneration
Monday, November 13:
CANCELED
E.J. Chichilnisky
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Functional Circuitry of the Primate Retina at Cellular Resolution
Monday, November 27:
James Elder
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Psychology
University of York
Perceptual Organization of Shape
Monday, December 11:
Michael Higley
Department of Neurobiology, Yale University
Cortical Circuits Underlying Visual Perception
SPRING 2018
Monday, January 29:
Salil Lachke
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
Integrated Approach to Decipher Regulatory Networks in Eye Development and Disease
Monday, February 12:
Aparna Lakkaraju
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Live-cell Imaging Reveals Novel Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Macular Degenerations
Monday, February 26:
Wei Wei
Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago
Flexible yet Robust: Dynamic Neural Mechanisms Underlying Direction Selectivity in the Mammalian Retina
Monday, March 12:
Christopher Rozell
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Efficient Coding Theories for Neural Systems under Biophysical Constraints
Monday, March 26:
Alex Wade
CANCELED
Department of Psychology, York University
Fly Vision and Its Application to Neurological Disease
Monday, April 9:
W. Rowland Taylor
Vision Science and Optometry, University of California - Berkeley
The Role of Inhibition in Regulating Temporal Tuning in the Retina
Thursday, April 19:
Bertrand Mollereau
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Expression of Fatty Acid Transport Protein in Retinal Pigment Cells Promotes Lipid Droplet Expansion and Photoreceptor Homeostasis
Monday, April 23:
Frank Durgin
Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience, Swarthmore College
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