All seminars will be held in person on alternate Mondays at 12:00pm in room 200 Goddard Labs, 3710 Hamilton Walk.
Seminars will also stream via Zoom. For the link, please contact Jessica Marcus: jmarcus@upenn.edu.
Spring 2026
Jan 23
MindCORE/Vision Seminar: Roozbeh Kiani
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology
NYU
“Beyond Movement: Joint Encoding of Action and Cognition in the Human Pallidothalamic Circuit”
Jan 26
David Brainard
RRL Professor of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
“Towards the geometry of color space”
Feb 9
Richard Krauzlis
Senior Investigator, Visual Circuits Section
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
NEI
“The low road to higher visual functions”
Feb 23
Yih Chung Tham
PYP Ophthalmology
National University of Singapore
Title and abstract forthcoming
Mar 16
Jason Meyer
A. Donald Merritt Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology
Indiana University
Title and abstract forthcoming
Mar 30
Greg Horwitz
Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics
University of Washington
Title and abstract forthcoming
Apr 13
Jacob Yates
Optometry and Vision Science
UC Berkeley
Title and abstract forthcoming
Apr 27
Richard Kramer
Department of Neruoscience
UC Berkeley
Title and abstract forthcoming
Fall 2025
Sep 29
Vlad Ayzenberg
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Temple University
“Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization”
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*Tuesday, Oct 14
VRC Symposium
2-4pm, Class of ’62 Auditorium
John Morgan Building
Dirk Trauner, Department of Chemistry
Timothy Machado, Department of Neuroscience
Benjamin Kim, Department of Ophthalmology
trainee presentations in AI:
Minkyu Kim, Scheie Biostatistics
Haotian Ma, Beauchamp Lab
Almiqdad Saeed, Al-Aswad OPTIC Lab
Sergey Shuvaev, Pesaran/Dyer Labs
4pm Reception, Barchi Library
Oct 27
Lucie Guo
Department of Ophthalmology
“Building synthetic biology tools for gene therapy”
Nov 10
Jesse Gomez
Princeton Neuroscience Institute
“Receptive field mapping of the developing dorsal visual stream and the role of visuospatial attention dynamics in childhood”
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Nov 24
Botond Roska
Allen Institute
“Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment”
Dec 8
Jose Manuel Alonso
SUNY Optometry
“ON and OFF Pathways in Vision”