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Thursday, January 12, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Stewart Bloomfield
New York University
Mind the gap: The functional roles of neuronal gap junctions in tetinal physiology and pathology

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Friday, February 10, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Paul Glimcher
New York University
The neurobiology of visuo-saccadic decision making

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Thursday, February 16, 2012 –12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Amy Nau
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
A taste of vision

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Friday, February 17, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Rowland Taylor
Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science Univ.
Diverse synaptic inputs drive homologous ON and OFF ganglion cell types in the mammalian retina

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Friday, March 2, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Bart Krekelberg
Rutgers University
Neural mechanisms of perceptual stability

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Friday, March 16, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Mark Willcox
University of New South Wales School of Optometry and Vision Science
Corneal infection, contact lenses and comfort: translational research 1993-2012

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Friday, March 23, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. William Guido
Virginia Commonwealth University
Circuit development in the visual thalamus

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Suresh Viswanathan
Indiana University School of Optometry
Assessing retinal ganglion cell function in response to elevated intraocular pressure

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Friday, April 13, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Kenneth Ciuffreda
SUNY College of Optometry
Oculomotor deficits and their remediation in mild traumatic brain injury

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Friday, May 4, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Ben Thompson
University of Auckland
Harnessing brain plasticity to improve visual function in amblyopia

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Friday, May 4, 2012 – 3:30 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Ben Thompson
University of Auckland
What can brain imaging tell us about amblyopia?

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Yuanquan Yang
SUNY College of Optometry
TGF-beta1 induces corneal fibrosis through TRPV1 activation in human corneal fibroblast

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Friday, May 25, 2012 – 12:00 – Room 101
Dr. Frederic Chavane 
Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University
Scale dependent input normalization in V1:involvement of inter-cortical networks

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Tracy Nguyen
Indiana University School of Optometry
Lactate transport across the corneal endothelium

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Friday, June 15, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Pete Kollbaum
Indiana University School of Optometry
Mission: impossible – ghost protocol – ameliorating the visibility of ghosting in presbyopic contact lens corrections

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Thursday, June 21, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Alexandra Benavente-Perez
SUNY College of Optometry
From human to animal myopia and back. My personal experience in the field of myopia research

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Thursday, June 28, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Jing Yuan
SUNY College of Optometry
PPAR gamma control of hypertonic-induced responses in human corneal epithelial cells

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Georgina Powell
Cardiff University
Making the incredible credible: afterimages are modulated by contextual edges more than real stimuli

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Thursday, July 19, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Wendy Marsh-Tootle
University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Optometry
Measures in myopic children & young adults

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Friday, October 19, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Marcus Missal
L'Université Catholique de Louvain
Causality perception and anticipatory eye movements

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Thursday, October 25, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Timo Van Kerkoerle
The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Feedforward & feedback activity in monkey visual cortex

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Nicole Carnt
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Epidemiology & genetics of corneal inflammatory events

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Friday, November 9, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Austin Roorda
University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry
Adaptive optics for studying structure/function of eye disease on a cellular level

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Friday, November 16, 2012 – 10:00 – Alumni Commons
Preethi Thiagarajan
SUNY College of Optometry
Oculomotor rehabilitation for reading dysfunction in mild traumatic brain injury

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Friday, November 16, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Drs. Barry Lee, Steven DeVries, Elizabeth Johnson, Bevil Conway
SUNY, Northwestern University, Duke University, Wellesley University
Neural processing of color signals: a mini-symposium in honor of Barry Lee

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Robin Chalmers
Independent clinical trials consultant, Atlanta, GA
What Recommendations Can Reduce Complications with Soft Contact Lens Wear?

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Thursday December 6, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons
Dr. Alan Freeman
The University of Sydney
A functional model for primary visual cortex

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 1:00 - Room 206
Reza Lashgari
SUNY Optometry

Visual Response Properties and Attentional Modulations of Local Field Potentials (LFPs) in Primary Visual Cortex
PhD Dissertation Defense

Friday, January 18, 2013 -12:00 -Alumni Commons
Dr. Robert Hess
McGill University, Canada
A Binocular Approach to Treating Amblyopia

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Friday, February 15, 2013- 12:00 - Alumni Commons
Dr. Alfredo Kirkwood
Johns Hopkins University
Neuromodulation of Ocular Dominance Plasticity

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Wednesday, Februrary 20, 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

Dr. Jerry Sherman
SUNY College of Optometry

Advances in imaging of the Retina and Choroid

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

 Dr. David Berntsen 
 University Of Houston College Of Optometry

 Beyond the fovea: Spectacle and contact lens myopia control studies guiding clinical practice
 

Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

Dr. Rowan Candy

Indiana University School of Optometry

The visual experience of the young hyperope

Friday, April, 26 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

Dr. Thomas Serre

Brown University

Bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception

Friday, May 3, 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

Dr. Greg Horwitz

University of Washington

Exploring primary visual cortex with new techniques: isoresponse surface measurements and optogenetics

Friday, May 17, 2013 - 12:00 - Alumni Commons

Dr. Christoph Witzel

University of Sussex, UK, School of Psychology

Perceptual correlates of color categorization