All seminars will be held in person on alternate Mondays at 12:00pm in room 102AB Richards Labs, and will also stream via Zoom.
For the Zoom link, please contact Jessica Marcus: jmarcus@upenn.edu.
Spring 2025
Jan 27
Robert Mullins
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Iowa
“Annoyed in the choroid: complement activation and its role in macular degeneration”
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Feb 10
John Ash
Director, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Center
University of Pittsburgh
“Stress-induced resilience”
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Feb 24
Wilma Bainbridge
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
“Memory is predictable from our visual world”
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Mar 17
Dora Hermes
Mayo Clinic
“Electrical stimulation driven neural signal propagation in human visual pathways”
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Mar 31 – *Postponed*
Richard Krauzlis
Senior Investigator, Visual Circuits Section
NEI
“How do faces attract visual attention?”
Apr 7
Noelle Stiles
Brain Health Institute
Rutgers University
“Restoring Sight to the Blind: Effects of Structural and Functional Plasticity”
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Apr 21
Sara Thomasy
Professor of Comparative Ophthalmology
UC Davis
“The Monkeys Have It: Novel Nonhuman Primate Models of Ocular Disease”
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Fall 2024
Sep 30
Janey Wiggs
Associate Chief, Ophthalmology Clinical Research
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
“Advances in glaucoma genetics: New opportunities for diagnosis and therapy”
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Oct 14
Daniel Butts
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
“Understandable or inscrutable? How and why is information from the two eyes combined in the visual cortex?”
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Oct 28
Bevil Conway
Senior Investigator, Sensation, Cognition, and Action Section
NEI
“Concepts: origins & neural mechanisms”
This seminar was not recorded.
Nov 11
Bikash Pattnaik
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Wisconsin – Madison
“Genomic medicine influxes ions through channels”
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Nov 25
Michael Marks
CHOP Research Institute
“Tales from the Dark Side: Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Syndromic Albinism”
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Dec 9
Donald Miller
Indiana University School of Optometry
“Exploring Adaptive Optics OCT Imaging for Improved Clinical Insights”
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