Vision Seminar

Talks are typically alternate Mondays, 12:00-1:00 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 2007

September 17:
Don Fox
University of Houston
Differential Susceptibility and Rescue Of Rod Photoreceptor Synaptic and Non-Synaptic Mitochondria to Divalent Cation Overload
Host: Gustavo Aguirre

October 15:
Bart Borghuis
University of Pennsylvania
Efficiency of an analog neural circuit
Host: Peter Sterling

October 29:
David Berson
Brown University
Ganglion-cell photoreceptors - A bit of fly in the mammalian eye
Host: Noga Vardi

November 5:
Society of Neuroscience meeting
- no seminar -

November 19:
Jessica Cardin
University of Pennsylvania
Impact of Network Dynamics on Cortical Visual Responses
Host: Diego Contreras

Spring 2008

January 7:
Jeffery Diamond
National Institutes of Health
Diverse mechanisms underlie feedback inhibition in the inner retina
Host: Robert Smith

January 28:
John Robson
University of Houston
Seeing in the dark
Host: Jack Nachmias

February 11:
Eric Pierce
University of Pennsylvania
Novel cilia proteins from the mouse photoreceptor sensory cilia proteome

March 10:
Marcos Frank
University of Pennsylvania
Remodeling the visual cortex: complementary roles of experience and sleep
Host: Larry Palmer

March 24:
Susana Martinez-Conde
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix
Perceptual and physiological effects of fixational eye movements
Host: Larry Palmer

April 7:
Janet Sparrow
Columbia University
Shedding Light on Bisretinoid Pigments of RPE lipofuscin and Macular Degeneration
Host: Jean Bennet

April 21:
Josh Gold
University of Pennsylvania
Sensory, sensory-motor and motor correlates of perceptual learning
Host: Larry Palmer

May 5:
Eyal Seidmann
University of Texas at Austin
Optimal decoding of neural population responses in the primate visual cortex
Host: Josh Gold

May 19:
David Fitzpatrick
Duke University
Imaging experience-dependent emergence of functional circuits in visual cortex
Host: Diego Contreras

Other vision-related sites at Penn:

GRASP Lab (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception Laboratory) Talks

IRCS (Institute for Research in Cognitive Science) Colloquia

CCN (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience) Lunch talks  Campus-wide talk list

INS (Institute of Neurological Sciences)

Penn Perception

Department of Psychology Colloquia

Department of Biology

UPHS Department of Ophthalmology

UPHS Department of Neurology