Spring 2023
January 23
Benjamin Scholl
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
“Unraveling the synaptic inputs onto neurons in the visual cortex”
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February 6
Catherine Bowes Rickman
George and Geneva Boguslavsky Distinguished Professor of Eye Research
Department of Ophthalmology
Duke University
“Complement based Therapies for Age-related Macular Degeneration”
This seminar was not recorded.
February 20
Christopher Fetsch
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
“Cortical population activity during concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence report”
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March 13
Dirk Trauner
Department of Chemistry, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania
“Restoring Vision with Photopharmacology”
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March 27
Brian Russ
Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation
The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
“Feature and Temporal Coding During Naturalistic Vision”
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April 10
Elias Issa
Department of Neuroscience
Columbia University
“Geometry based face recognition”
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April 24
Alessandra Angelucci
Mary H. Boesche Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
University of Utah, Moran Eye Institute
“Organization and function of inter-areal feedback connections in early visual processing”
This seminar was not recorded.
Fall 2022
October 10
Yang Hu
Department of Ophthalmology
Stanford University
“Neural Repair of the CNS: Viewing through RGC and Optic Nerve”
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October 24
Kapil Bharti
Senior Investigator
Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research Section
NIH/NEI
“A Phase I/IIA Trial To Test Safety And Feasibility Of An Autologous Ips Cell-derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium Patch In Age-related Macular Degeneration Patients”
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November 7
Marisa Carrasco
Department of Psychology
Center for Neural Science
New York University
“How Attention Shapes Perception”
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November 21
Daniel Saban
Department of Ophthomology
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
“Microglia as Modifiers of Age-related Macular Degeneration”
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December 5
T. Rowan Candy
Department of Optometry
Indiana University
“How well do infants and young children control their own visual experience? Basic Science and Clinic”
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December 12
Toco Chui
Adaptive Optics Lab
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Mount Sinai
“Retinal microvascular imaging in sickle cell disease”
This seminar was not recorded.
Spring 2022
January 31
Jesse Schallek
Department of Ophthalmology
Center for Visual Science
Department of Neuroscience
University of Rochester
“New Views in the Eye: Imaging Single Blood Cell Behavior in the Living Retina”
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February 14
Town Hall on Vision Research Training at Penn
Presenters: Diego Contreras, Joshua Dunaief
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February 28
Lynne Kiorpes
Departments of Neural Science & Psychology
NYU
“Neural mechanisms supporting the development of form vision in primates”
March 14
Martina Poletti
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester
“Vision across the foveola: Attention, eye movements and high acuity”
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March 28
Ari Rosenberg
Department of Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin – Madison
“Shared neural circuitry supporting object vision and visuomotor function”
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April 11
David Williams
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Director, Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester
“Seeing through the primate retinal ganglion cell mosaic”
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April 25
Kevin Weiner
Department of Psychology
University of California – Berkeley
“Tertiary sulci, transcriptomics, and functional gradients in human cortex”
Fall 2021
October 11
Drew Jaegle
DeepMind
“Towards General-Purpose Architectures: Perceiver & Perceiver IO”
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November 8
Xin Duan
Department of Ophthalmology
UCSF
“Trans-Seq: Translating Transcriptomics to Connectomics at Retinotectal Synapse”
This seminar was not recorded.
November 22
Jonathan Demb
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Yale School of Medicine
“Optogenetic studies of interneuron circuits in the retina”
This seminar was not recorded.
December 6
Laurie Bayet
Department of Neuroscience
American University
“Learning from babies: How infants understand the visual and affective world”
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Spring 2021
January 25
Patricia D’Amore
Masschusetts Eye and Ear
“A Novel Role for the Endothelial Glycocalyx in Angiogenesis”
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February 8
Thomas Reh
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
University of Washington
“Repurposing glia to make neurons: it’s not too late to change their fate”
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February 22
VRC Modules
Presenters:
David Brainard, Director, Vision Research Center
Geoffrey Aguirre, Scientific Transparency and Image Analysis Module Co-Director
James Gee, Scientific Transparency and Image Analysis Module Co-Director
Claire Mitchell, Imaging and Electrophysiology Module Director
William Beltran, Instrumentation/Electronics Module Director
Gui-Shuang Ying, Biostatistics Module Director
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March 15
Ruben Coen Cagli
Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Probabilistic computation in natural vision”
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March 29
Martin Banks
School of Optometry
UC Berkeley
“Binocular Vision and Oculomotor Behavior are Adapted
to the Statistics of the Natural Environment”
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April 12
Steven Shevell
Psychology, Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago
“The Neural Representation of Perceived Color”
This talk was not recorded.
April 26
Holly Bridge
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Oxford University
“Investigating the pathways underlying residual vision in hemianopia”
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Spring 2020
CANCELLED – February 10
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Columbia University
*Friday, February 21*
Paul MacNeilage
Institute for Neuroscience
University of Nevada, Reno
Perception of visual-vestibular conflict and characterization of natural head-eye movements
February 24
Wilson Geisler
Center for Perceptual Systems
University of Texas at Austin
Identification of Targets in Natural Scenes
CANCELLED – March 9
Ayelet Landau
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rhythmic sampling: the structure of our perceptions
CANCELLED – March 16
Ruben Coen Cagli
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Probabilistic computation in natural vision
CANCELLED – March 30
Steven Shevell
University of Chicago
CANCELLED – April 13
Patricia D’Amore
Masschusetts Eye and Ear
CANCELLED – April 20
Martin Banks
UC Berkeley
CANCELLED – April 27
Thomas Reh
University of Washington
Fall 2019
Monday, September 23
Daniel Kerschensteiner
Washington University in St. Louis
Retinal circuits for action
Monday, October 7
Qasim Zaidi
SUNY College of Optometry
Cortical and Mental Geometry in Pattern and Scene Perception
Monday, November 11
Douglas Vollrath
Stanford University
Genetics of RPE Gene Expression and Metabolism
Monday, November 18
Alexander Dizhoor
Salus University
Retinal degeneration-3 (RD3) protein in photoreceptor function and disease
Monday, December 9
Pierre-Olivier Polack
Rutgers University – Newark
Adapting V1 visual processing to the behavioral needs
Spring 2019
Monday, January 28
Bevil Conway
NIH – NEI Unit on Sensation, Cognition, Action
Color: a tool to understand the organization and operation of the ventral visual pathway
Monday, February 11
Jude Mitchell
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Neural mechanisms of pre-saccadic attention in the marmoset monkey
Monday, February 25
Dora Angelaki
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task
Monday, March 11
Christopher Westlake
NIH – Center for Cancer Research Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling
Exposing primary cilium assembly mechanisms
Monday, March 25
Lindsey Glickfeld
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
Neural correlates of perception in the mouse visual system
Monday, April 22
Sylvia Pont
Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
Lighting materials and materializing light
Monday, May 6
Gautam Awatramani
Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Coarse and fine spatiotemporal coordination of excitation and inhibition underlying high-fidelity direction coding in the retina
Fall 2018
Monday, September 24
Neena Haider
Department of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Institute, Masschusetts Eye and Ear
Gene Identification to Gene Therapy: Development of the First Broad Spectrum Therapy for Inherited Retinal Diseases
Monday, October 8
Bas Rokers
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Motion Perception in Three Dimensions
Monday. October 22
Ilya Monosov
Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis
Why Would You Want to Know? Basal Ganglia Networks for Uncertainty Reduction
Monday, November 5
Ralf Haefner
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
Perceptual Decision-making as Hierarchical Probabilistic Inference: From Neural Correlations to Confirmation Bias
Monday, November 19
Erin Goddard
Department of Ophthalmology, CCD – ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Spatial and Feature-selective Attention Have Distinct Effects on Population-level Tuning
Monday, December 3
Alex Wade
Department of Psychology, University of York
Fly Vision and Its Application to Neurological Disease
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, 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
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 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 2017
Monday, January 23
Stylianos Michalakis
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Gene therapies for Inherited Retinal Degenerations
Monday, February 6
Andrew Watson
Apple Inc.
The Magical Number -6: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Classifying Visual Patterns
Monday, March 20
Farran Briggs
Dartmouth College
Exploring Vision and Attention at the Level of Neuronal Circuits
Monday, April 17
Stephanie Palmer
University of Chicago
Understanding Vision Through the Lens of Prediction
Monday, May 1
Andrew Huberman
University of California, San Diego
From Fear to Courage: Neural Circuits That Attach Emotional State to Visual Perception
Fall 2016
Monday, August 15
Gerald Chader
(This talk will be held in Room 132 Hill Pavilion, 380 S. University Avenue.)
Bioelectronic Research Lab, University of Southern California
The Retinal Prosthesis: Renewed Sight Through Artificial Vision
Friday, September 2
William Tsang
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal
Regulation of Centrosome Homeostasis
Monday, September 12
Michele Basso
University of California, Los Angeles
Impaired Decision-Making in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Monday, September 26
Donald Miller
Indiana University
Imaging Structure and Function of RPE Cells
Monday, October 10
Jonathan Winawer
New York University
Neuronal Synchrony and the Relation Between the BOLD Response and the Local Field Potential
Monday. October 24
Dario Ringach
University of California, Los Angeles
Spatial Clustering of Tuning in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex
Thursday, November 10
Michael Hoffmann
University of Magdeburg
Consequences of Optic Chiasm Malformations on the Organization of the Human Visual System
Monday, November 21
Noga Vardi
Lab for Retinal Microcircuitry, University of Pennsylvania
The First Synaptic Complex in Vision: Function and Tricks
Monday, December 5
Robert Lucas
University of Manchester
How Melanopsin Helps Us See
Spring 2016
February 29
Valeria Canto-Soler
Johns Hopkins University
March 28
Barb Roher
Medical University of South Carolina
Fall 2015
October 26
Bart Borghuis
University of Louisville
December 7
Peyman Golshani
University of California Los Angeles
Spring 2015
February 2
Barb Roher
Medical University of South Carolina
February 23
Tony Movshon
New York University
March 2
Carl Orlson
University of Pittsburgh
March 16
Hui Sun
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
March 30
Jim Handa
Johns Hopkins University
April 13
Vadim Arshavsky
Duke University
April 20
Austin Roorda
University of California, Berkeley
May 11
Dan Butts
University of Maryland
June 22
Ken Shindler
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2014
September 15
Peter Sterling
University of Pennsylvania
October 6
Jonathan Victor
Cornell University
October 13:
Paul Martin
University of Sydney
October 27
Doug Fields
National Institutes of Health
November 3
Tomas Aleman
University of Pennsylvania
December 5
David S Williams
Jules Stein Eye Institute
December 8
Ben Backus
SUNY College of Optometry
December 15
Dawei Dong
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2014
January 13
James Fadool
Photoreceptor Patterning in Development and Disease
Florida State University
February 3
Jonathan Horton
Binocular Function in Strabismus
University of California, San Francisco
February 17
Brian Chow
Optogenetic Tools for Controlling Biological Circuits
University of Pennsylvania
March 3
Austin Roorda
Testing Vision, One Cone at a Time
University of California, Berkeley
March 17
Benjamin Kim
Adaptive Optics Imaging of Central Serous Retinopathy
University of Pennsylvania
March 31
Hendrikje Nienborg
Using Neuron-behavior Correlations to Infer How Visual Neurons Inform Perceptual Decisions
University of Tübingen
April 7
Michele Rucci
How Active Is Visual Perception?
Boston University
April 28
Daeyeol Lee
Neural Basis of Strategic Decision Making
Yale University
May 12
Budd Tucker
Using Patient Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Interrogate and Treat Inherited Retinal Degenerative Disease
University of Iowa
Fall 2013
September 30
William Guido
Circuit Development in the Mouse Visual Thalamus
University of Louisville
October 7
Douglas Fields
Plasticity Beyond the Neuron Doctrine: Action Potentials in Regulating Myelination and Synaptic Strength
National Institutes of Health
October 21
Theodore Wensel
New Approaches to Phototransduction and Retinal Degeneration
Baylor College of Medicine
November 4
Michael Freed
Retinal Ganglion Cells and Their Synaptic Inputs: a Neural Circuit Designed to Mitigate Noise
University of Pennsylvania
December 2
Christopher Passaglia
Computational Homologies of a Vertebrate and Invertebrate Eye
University of South Florida
December 16
Bijan Pesaran
A Role for Coherent Activity in Coordinating Look and Reach Movements
New York University
Spring 2013
January 7
Konstantin Petrukhin
Fighting Macular Degeneration: From Gene Discoveries to Drug Development
Columbia University
Host: Gus Aguirre
January 28
Yang Dan
Visual Cortical Processing: Clones, Interneurons, and Cholinergic Modulation
University of California, Berkeley
February 11
Bosco Tjan
Measuring the Relationship between the fMRI BOLD Response and Neuronal Activity from a Subject without the Optic Chiasm
University of Southern California
February 25
Anuradha Dhingra
G-proteins in Retina: Role in Signaling Cascades and Beyond
University of Pennsylvania
March 11
David Gamm
Modeling Retinal Development and Disease with Human iPS Cells
University of Wisconsin
April 1
Heidi Hofer
Visual Perception and the Retinal Mosaic
University of Houston
April 15
Joshua Singer
Synaptic Dynamics Determine Retinal Circuit Function
University of Maryland
April 29
Alessandra Angelucci
Circuits for Contextual Integration in Primary Visual Cortex
University of Utah
May 20
David Freedman
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision Making
University of Chicago
Fall 2012
September 10
Diego Contreras
The Structure of Neuronal Correlations in Mouse V1 and the Role of Layer 6 Studied With Optogenetic Methods
University of Pennsylvania
September 24
Emilio Salinas
From Guessing to Knowing: Neural Correlates of Random and Informed Decisions During Rapid Choices
Wake Forest University
October 8
Gregory Horwitz
Exploring Primary Visual Cortex with Closed-Loop and Optogenetic Methods
University of Washington
October 22
Tudor Badea
Molecular Genetics of Retinal Ganglion Cell Diversification
National Institutes of Health
November 5
Hendrik Scholl
Age-related Macular Degeneration: A Genetic, Immunologic and Systemic Disease
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
November 19
Kirill Martemyanov
G Protein Mediated Synaptic Transmission of Visual Signals in the Retina
The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
December 3
Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan
Photoreceptors and Retinal Pigment Epithelium: Partners in Normal Vision and Retinal Disease
Weill Cornell Medical College
December 17
Jessica Morgan
Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy and its Application for High Resolution Study of Choroideremia
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2012
January 9
Anand Swaroop
A tale of tiny cilium: CEP290, primary cilia dysfunction and retinal degeneration
National Eye Institute
January 23
Alexander Borst
In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision
Max Planck Institute
February 6
Penn Vision Research Center Faculty Meeting
Overview of VRC Facilities and Discussion of Ways to Enhance Vision Research on Campus
University of Pennsylvania
February 20
Neal Peachey
Congenital Stationary Night Blindness: New Genes, Mouse Models and Clinical Implications
Cleveland Clinic
March 12
Wei Li
A tale of two seasons: Synapses and circuits in the ground squirrel retina
National Institutes of Health
March 26
Nicolas Bazan
Decoding principles to sustain hippocampal neurons and photoreceptor survival: Significance of essential fatty acids
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
April 16
Jose-Manuel Alonso
Neural representations of darks and lights in visual cortex
SUNY College of Optometry
April 30
Stephen Lisberger
How does the brain get its notion of motion
Duke University
May 21
Tonia Rex
Erythropoietin gene therapy protects retinal ganglion cells in two mouse models
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Fall 2011
September 19
Gautam Awatramani
Parallel Mechanisms Encode Directional Selectivity in the Retina
Dalhousie University
October 3
John Flannery
Optogenetic Approaches for Vision Restoration
University of California
October 17
Wilson Geisler
Detection and Fixation Search in Naturalistic and Natural Images
University of Texas at Austin
October 31
Nick Marsh-Armstrong
Phagocytic Astrocytes and Glaucoma
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
November 21
Marlene Cohen
When attention wanders: how uncontrolled fluctuations in attention affect performance
University of Pittsburgh
Host: Nicole Rust
December 5
Joseph Carroll
High-Resolution Imaging of the Human Retina: Development and Disruption
Medical College of Wisconsin
December 19
Joan O’Brien
Genetics of Ocular Tumors
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2011
January 10
Barry Knox
Mechanisms of Retinal Degeneration: Lessons from Live Cell Imaging
Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY
January 31
Maarten Kamermans
Unconventional inhibition in the outer
retina — mechanism and function
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
February 14
Sara Aton
Mechanisms for sleep-dependent plasticity in the cortex following visual experience
University of Pennsylvania
February 28
Ronen Segev
Information encoding of movement and color by the retina
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
March 14
Robert Burgess
The role of Dscams in dendrite arborization, cell body spacing, and synaptic specificity in the developing mouse retina
Jackson Laboratories
March 28
Jonathan Winawer
Visual field maps and population
receptive fields in human visual cortex
Stanford University
April 11
King-Wai Yau
Light Detection in the Retina
Johns Hopkins University
April 25
William Beltran
The use of canine models to develop gene therapy for RPGR X-linked retinitis pigmentosa: joys and hurdles
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2010
September 13
Diego Contreras
Tonic and Burst Firing in LGN Neurons
University of Pennsylvania
September 27
Vijay Balasubramanian
Efficient coding and the perception of texture
University of Pennsylvania
October 11
Sansar C. Sharma
Glaucoma: Models and Mechanisms
NY Medical College, Valhalla
November 1
Adam Kohn
Feedforward corticocortical networks
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
November 22
Anitha Pasupathy
Shape processing under partial occlusion in V4: insight into
representation and segmentation
University of Washington
December 13
Dora Angelaki
Getting a sense of direction: Combination of sensory cues improves spatial perception
Washington University of St. Louis
Spring 2010
January 11
Vadim Arshavsky
G protein signaling in photoreceptors
Duke Eye Center
January 25
Alan Stocker
Characterization and Validation of Bayesian Observer Models
University of Pennsylvania
February 8
Joe Hollyfield
Identification of an inflammatory signal generated by oxidative damage to membrane lipids that is sufficient to cause AMD-like lesions in mice
February 22
Visual texture: Discrimination, pattern identification and
cortical coding
New York University
March 15
Anitha Pasupathy
Representing shapes in V4, two objects at a time
University of Washington
April 5
David Brainard
Bayes, Color, and the Cone Mosaic
University of Pennsylvania
April 19
Claire Mitchell
Pressure, Pannexins and Purines Produce Problems in Retinal Ganglion Cells
University of Pennsylvania
April 26
Marc Sommer
Circuits for spatial perception in the primate brain
University of Pittsburgh
Fall 2009
September 14
Nicole Rust
Concurrent increases in selectivity and invariance
produce constant sparseness across the ventral visual pathway
University of Pennsylvania
October 5
Steve Fliesler
State University of New York at Buffalo
Retinal Degeneration in a Cholesterol Deficiency Syndrome: What We’ve Learned from Animal Studies.
October 26
Dawei Dong
Florida Atlantic University/Visiting Professor University of Pennsylvania
Confucius said: Watching the past for seeing the future — the efficient coding of natural images
November 9
Andrew Stockman
University College London
Human scotopic (rod) sensitivity regulation
November 23
Okihide Hikosaka
Subcortical mechanisms of motivational behavior – Beyond dopamine neurons
National Eye Institute
December 7
Alyosha Molnar
How Retinas are like Radios: robust signaling in the retina despite distortion and variation
Cornell University
Spring 2009
January 5
Kathy Boesze-Battaglia
Melanoregulin a Newly Identified Modulator of Lysosome Function in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
University of Pennsylvania
January 26
Long Ding
The cortico-basal ganglia pathway and perceptual decision-making
University of Pennsylvania
February 9
Eileen Kowler
Attention during the planning of sequences of saccades
Rutgers University
February 23
Z. Jimmy Zhou
Role of ACh and GABA co-release in the detection of motion and motion direction
Yale University
March 9
Gustavo Aguirre
Shining a light on blindness, but blinded by the light
University of Pennsylvania
March 23
Gerald Chader
Artificial Vision: Sight Restoration through an Electronic Retinal Prosthetic Device
Doheny Eye Institute
April 20
Michael Freed
Signal and noise at the synaptic input to retinal ganglion cells
University of Pennsylvania
May 11
Herwig Baier
Genetic Architecture of the Zebrafish Visual System
University of California, San Francisco
Fall 2008
September 22
Naoum Issa
The role of the early visual system in processing complex images
University of Chicago
October 6
Bruce Cumming
Where do correlations between neuronal activity and sensory decisions originate?
National Eye Institute
October 20
Anya Hurlbert
Colour constancy and colour memory of natural objects
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
November 3
Geoff Aguirre
Conjoint and independent neural tuning for object properties studied with fMRI
University of Pennsylvania
November 10
Botond Roska
Seeing with and without photoreceptors
Friedrich Miescher Institute
December 8
Sean MacEvoy
The representation of multiple simultaneous stimuli in the visual cortex
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2008
January 7
Jeffery Diamond
National Institutes of Health
Diverse mechanisms underlie feedback inhibition in the inner retina
January 28
John Robson
University of Houston
Seeing in the dark
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
April 7
Janet Sparrow
Columbia University
Shedding Light on Bisretinoid Pigments of RPE lipofuscin and Macular Degeneration
April 21
Josh Gold
University of Pennsylvania
Sensory, sensory-motor and motor correlates of perceptual learning
May 5
Eyal Seidmann
University of Texas at Austin
Optimal decoding of neural population responses in the primate visual cortex
May 19
David Fitzpatrick
Duke University
Imaging experience-dependent emergence of functional circuits in visual cortex
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
October 15
Bart Borghuis
University of Pennsylvania
Efficiency of an analog neural circuit
October 29
David Berson
Brown University
Ganglion-cell photoreceptors – A bit of fly in the mammalian eye
November 19
Jessica Cardin
University of Pennsylvania
Impact of Network Dynamics on Cortical Visual Responses
December 10
Austin Roorda
UC Berkeley
Structure and Function of the Human Retina Revealed with Adaptive Optics