2013-2014
Talks are typically alternate Mondays, 12:15-1:15 pm, in Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building), but see below for occasional exceptions.
Students (and postdocs): We encourage you to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact the speaker's host (in advance, if possible).
Fall 2013
September 30:
William Guido
Circuit Development in the Mouse Visual Thalamus
University of Louisville
Host: Diego Contrerras
October 7:
Douglas Fields
Plasticity Beyond the Neuron Doctrine: Action Potentials in Regulating Myelination and Synaptic Strength
National Institutes of Health
Host: Claire Mitchell
October 21:
Theodore Wensel
New Approaches to Phototransduction and Retinal Degeneration
Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Noga Vardi
November 4:
Michael Freed
Retinal Ganglion Cells and Their Synaptic Inputs: a Neural Circuit Designed to Mitigate Noise
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Robert Smith
December 2:
Christopher Passaglia
Computational Homologies of a Vertebrate and Invertebrate Eye
University of South Florida
Host: Robert Smith
December 16:
Bijan Pesaran
A Role for Coherent Activity in Coordinating Look and Reach Movements
New York University
Host: Joshua Gold
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Spring 2014
January 13:
James Fadool
Photoreceptor Patterning in Development and Disease
Florida State University
Host: Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia
February 3:
Jonathan Horton
Binocular Function in Strabismus
University of California, San Francisco
Host: David Brainard
February 17:
Brian Chow
Optogenetic Tools for Controlling Biological Circuits
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Jean Bennett
March 3:
Austin Roorda
Testing Vision, One Cone at a Time
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Jessica Morgan
March 17:
Benjamin Kim
Adaptive Optics Imaging of Central Serous Retinopathy
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Jessica Morgan
March 31:
Hendrikje Nienborg
Using Neuron-behavior Correlations to Infer How Visual Neurons Inform Perceptual Decisions
University of Tübingen
Host: Nicole Rust
April 7:
Michele Rucci
How Active Is Visual Perception?
Boston University
Host: Alan Stocker
April 28:
Daeyeol Lee
Neural Basis of Strategic Decision Making
Yale University
Host: Joshua Gold
May 12:
Budd Tucker
Using Patient Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Interrogate and Treat Inherited Retinal Degenerative Disease
University of Iowa
Host: Jean Bennett
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