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2012-17 SIVR Colloquia

 

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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 OptometryVisual Response Properties and Attentional Modulations of Local Field Potentials (LFPs) in Primary Visual Cortex
PhD Dissertation Defense
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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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Dr. Jerry Sherman
SUNY College of Optometry

Advances in imaging of the Retina and Choroid

 
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 Dr. David Berntsen
University Of Houston College Of Optometry

Beyond the fovea: Spectacle and contact lens myopia control studies guiding clinical practice
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Dr. Rowan Candy

Indiana University School of Optometry

The visual experience of the young hyperope

 
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Dr. Thomas Serre

Brown University

Bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception

 
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Dr. Greg Horwitz

University of Washington

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

 
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Dr. Christoph Witzel

University of Sussex, UK, School of Psychology

Perceptual correlates of color categorization

 
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Title:		 Friday, June 14th, 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Mark Wexler

University of Sussex, UK, School of Psychology Continuous persistent state variables in vision

 
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Robert Ennis

SUNY College of Optometry

The Role of Mental Representations in the Geometrical Structure of Color Similarity Judgments

 
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Dr. Suresh Viswanathan

SUNY College of Optometry

Objective estimation of retinal ganglion cell dysfunction

 
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Dr. Teng Leng Ooi

Salus University

Improving binocular vision of normals and amblyopes with a push pull perceptual learning protocol

 

 
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Dr. Marilyn Vricella

SUNY College of Optometry

Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group

 
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Dr. MaryAnn Banerji

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Type 2 diabetes and a new NIH study on the effectiveness of diabetes treatment

 
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Dr. Stephen Van Hooser

Brandeis University

Choosing which way to go: the experience-dependent development of cortical direction

 

 
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Dr. Michael Shadlen

Columbia University

Believing and Time. A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making

 
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Dr. Michael Sullivan-Mee

Albuquerque VA Medical Centery

Patient-driven research

 
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Title:		 Tuesday, October 29, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222Dr. Alexandra Benavente

SUNY College of OptometrySpatial and Temporal Integration of Refractive Development

 

 
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Dr. Clemens Boucsein

Albert-Ludwigs-University

The rodeo of spiking: on the importance of having a saddle in the bumpy regime

 
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Dr. Odelia Schwartz
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Contextual influences in vision and natural image statistics

 
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Stanley Komban

SUNY College of Optometry

Neuronal and perceptual differences in the processing of Darks and Light

 
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Yushi Wang

SUNY College of Optometry

Functional Organization of Topographic Maps in Primary Visual Cortex

 
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Dr. Joo-Hyun Song

Brown University

Attention and visuomotor processes

 
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Dr. Alexandra Benavente

SUNY College of Optometry

Spatial and Temporal Integration of Refractive Development

 
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Dr. Mark Rosenfield

SUNY College of Optometry

Today’s technology: Yesterday’s eye exam

 
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Dr. Toco Chui

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Monitoring Longitudinal Vasculopathic Changes in Human Retina using Offset Pinhole Adaptive Optics Scanning Light Ophthalmoscopy

 
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Dr. Robert Wojciechowski

John Hopkins University

Refractive Error Research in the Genomics Era

 
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 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Bosco Tjan
University of Southern California
Form Vision without Fovea: image representation and gaze control

 
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 Friday, March 7th, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Sabine Kastner
Princeton University
Network dynamics for attentional selection in the primate brain
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 Tuesday, March 18, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Susana Chung
University of California, Berkeley
Plasticity of the visual system following macular lesions

 
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 Tuesday, March 25, 2014 – 12:20 – Room 222
Dr. Dennis Levi
University of California, Berkeley
Removing the brakes on plasticity in the amblyopic brain
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 Tuesday, April 1, 2014 – 12:05 – Room 222

Dr. Andy Hartwick
Ohio State University
Slow but Steady: Temporal Properties of Ganglion Cell Photoreceptors

 
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 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 – 12:05 – Room 222
Dr. Andrew Parker
University of Oxford
The binocular brain: seeing in depth with two eyes.
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 Monday, April 21, 2014 – 12:00 – 18th Floor Alumni Commons

Dr. William Tuten
University of California – Berkeley
Single-cone psychophysics with adaptive optics

 
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 Tuesday, April 29, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Christopher Niell
University of Oregon
Visual processing and behavioral state in the mouse
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 Tuesday, May 13, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Nicola Anstice
The University of Auckland
Myopia – Can we control it?

 
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 Friday, May 23, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Javier Cudeiro
Department of Medicine, University of A Coruña (Spain) and Berenson-Allen Center, Harvard University (US)
Modulatory mechanisms operating at the visual cortico-thalamic loop
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 Tuesday, June 10, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Donald Hood
Columbia University
Glaucomatous Damage of the Macula
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 Tuesday, June 17, 2014 – 12:00 – 18th Floor (Alumni Commons)

Dr. Tara Alvarez
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Functional Mechanism of Neural Control in Convergence Insufficiency

 
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 Wednesday,  July 9, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Naveen K. Yadav
SUNY College of Optometry
Objective Assessment of Visual Dysfunction in the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Population Using the Visual-Evoked Potential (VEP)
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 Tuesday,  September 16,2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Kristina Haworth
The Ohio State University
Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Oxidative Stress on the Human Ocular Surface
 

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Thursday,  September 18, 2014 – 2:00 – Room 222

Bonnie Cooper (Thesis Defense)
SUNY College of Optometry
Responses properties of macaque retinal ganglion cells to compound sinusoids and complex waveforms: harmonic analyses & relations to human psychophysical data.

 
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 Tuesday,  September 23, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Stephen A. Burns
School of Optometry – Indiana University
Imaging the Retinal Vasculature and Blood Flow

 
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 Tuesday,  October 7, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Zhong-Lin Lu
The Ohio State University
Efficient Assessment of Visual Deficits in Amblyopia
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 Tuesday,  October 21, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Laura J. Frishman
University of Houston
Noninvasive in vivo assessment of inner retinal and optic nerve function

 
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 Friday, November 7, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Martin Banks

University of California – Berkeley
Stereopsis is Optimized for the Natural Environment

 
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 Monday, November 10, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Susana Marcos
Instituto de Óptica
Shedding light into Crystalline lens optics, accommodation, and presbyopia treatment

 
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 Tuesday, November 18, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Ann E. Elsner
Indiana University
I’m Not Done Yet: the life of cones in AMD
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 Thursday, November 20, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Alan Freeman
The University of Sydney
Orientation detectors are narrowly tuned, motion detectors are broadly tuned: why?
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 Tuesday, December 9, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. William Bialek
Princeton University
More than the sum of their parts:  Searching for collective behavior in networks of neurons and flocks of birds
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 Tuesday, January 20, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Anitha Pasupathy
University of Washington
Boundary curvature as a basis of form encoding in the primate brain
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 Tuesday, February 24, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Machelle Pardue
Emory University
Retinal contributions to myopia susceptibility
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 Tuesday, March 3, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Alison McDermott

University of Houston

Antimicrobial peptides: Innate Defense Against Ocular Surface Pathogens and Potential Therapeutic Uses

 
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 Monday, March 9, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Li Li
Hong Kong University
The role of optic flow in the control of locomotion toward a goal

 
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 Tuesday, March 10, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Jamie Mazer
Yale School of Medicine
Stabilizing visual and attention representations during natural vision

 
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 Tuesday, March 17, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde

State University of New York – Downstate Medical Center

From exploration to fixation: towards a unified theory of saccadic function

 
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 Tuesday, March 24, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Christian Casanova
Université de Montréal
Neural processing in the pulvinar and its contribution to transthalamic cortico-cortical communication
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Speaker: Dr. Heather Anderson
Affiliation:  University of Houston
Title: A Medley of Objectivity:  Amplitude, Astigmatism, and Spectacle Compliance

 
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 Tuesday, April 14, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222

Dr. Christopher Clark
Indiana University
Retinal profile and structural differences between myopes and emmetropes

 
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 Tuesday, April 21, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Alex Huk
University of Texas at Austin
Decision-correlated activity in the posterior parietal cortex
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 Tuesday, May 12, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Shiri Azenkot
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech
Designing Technology for Blind People
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 Tuesday, May 26, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Atanu Ghosh
University of Rochester
Optical and biomechanical factors associated with near work and myopia
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 Monday, June 1, 2015- 12:00 – Room 206
Dr. John E. Dowling
Harvard University
The Zebrafish: An Animal that Sees
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 Tuesday, June 2, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222
Dr. Wendy Harrison
Midwestern University
Methods for Early Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease
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 Monday, July 27, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense)
Baptiste Caziot
SUNY College of Optometry
The Contributions of Binocular Disparity to Mid-Level Vision
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 Friday, September 25, 2015- 12:00 – 18th Floor Alumni Commons

Dr. Lynne Kiorpes
New York University
Neural correlates of amblyopia
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 Tuesday, October 20, 2015- 12:00 – 18th Floor Alumni Commons

Dr. Patricia D’Amore
Harvard University (Schepens Eye Research Institute)
Role of VEGF in the Adult: Implications for Anti-VEFG Therapies
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Dr. Harold Bedell
The University of Houston
Crowding and Contour Interaction: More is Different
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Dr. Dario Ringach
University of California – Los Angeles
Micro-organization of tuning selectivity in mouse primary visual cortex
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Dr. Michael Goldberg
Columbia University
Cortical Mechanisms for Attention and Arousal
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Dr. Nicholas J. Priebe
The University of Texas at Austin
Binocular Integration in Mouse Visual Cortex
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Dr. Audrey Bernstein
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Pathological Protein Accumulation in the Eye
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Dr. Elena Ivanova
Cornell University
Leveraging Optogenetic-Based Neurovascular Circuit Characterization for Repair
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Dr. Bikash R. Pattnaik
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Novel therapy for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis using patient-in-adish
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Dr. David James Field
Cornell University
Unraveling the natural scene manifold: A geometric approach to understanding non-linearities in the visual pathway
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Kalanit Grill-Spector
Stanford University
The functional neuroanatomy of face perception
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Dr. Michael Twa
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elasticity Imaging and Corneal Biomechanics
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Dr. Alessandra Angelucci
University of Utah
Contextual integration in primary visual cortex: circuits, mechanisms and function.
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Dr. Barbara Gillam
University of New South Wales Sydney
The roles of absolute disparity, relative disparity and monocular regions in the perception of stereoscopic surface orientation
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Dr. Jonathan A Winawer
New York University
Spatial and Temporal Integration in the Human Visual Pathways
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Dr. Roger Tootell
Harvard University
Visualizing and Linking Columnar Streams in Human Visual Cortex
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Dr. Lisa Ostrin
University of Houston
Objectively Measured Light Exposure and Eye Growth in Children: Potential Role of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells
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Dr. Nicole Rust
University of Pennsylvania
The Superposition of Visual and Rule-based Representations in IT Cortex
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Dr. Douglas McMahon
Vanderbilt University
Retina Neural Network Adaptation: Dopamine and Circadian Mechanisms
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Dr. Hanna Smithson
University of Oxford
Part 1. Specularity and the Perception of Surface Colour
Part 2. High-resolution in vivo Retinal Imaging as a Tool for Vision Science
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Lauren Wool
SUNY College of Optometry
Color Vision: From Cells to Salience
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Title:		  Friday, October 28, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia)
Dr. Steven K. Shevell
University of Chicago
Perceptual Resolution of Neural Ambiguity
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Dr. Tatyana Sharpee
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Neural Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition
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Dr. Kristine Dalton
University of Waterloo
The Sports Vision Challenge
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Dr. Jimmy Zhou
Yale University School of Medicine
Glutamate-glycine Co-transmission in the Retina
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Dr. Gaby Maimon
The Rockefeller University
Quantitatively Tuned Efference Copies During Gaze Changes in Drosophila
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Dr. Weiji Ma
New York University
The Representation of Uncertainty in Visual Cortex
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Dr. Pauline Kang
University of New South Wales
Myopia Control with Orthokeratology
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Title:		 CANCELLED Friday, February 10, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 (Colloquia)
Dr. Mehrdad Jazayeri
MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Temporal Control of Self-Initiated Movements by Speed of Cortical Dynamics
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Title:		 Friday, March 10, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 (Colloquia)
Dr. Johannes Burge
University of Pennsylvania
The Lawful Imprecision of Human Tilt Estimation in Natural Scenes
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Title:		 Friday, March 24, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 (Colloquia)
Dr. Arthur Shapiro
American University
Illusions: Studying the Weird to Gain Insight on the Ordinary
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Title:		 Friday, March 31, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 206 (Colloquia)
Cecilia Chao
SUNY College of Optometry
Do Contact Lens Wear and LASIK Induce Inflammatory Response
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Title:		 Friday, April 21, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 103 (Colloquia)
Dr. Eyal Seidemann
The University of Texas at Austin
Decision Related Activity and Top-down Attentional Modulation in Primate V1
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Title:		 CANCELLED Tuesday, May 2, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 206 (Colloquia)
Dr. Bi Hong Sheng
School of Ophthalmology at the University of Shandong of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Children Vision Care in Shandong: From Public Welfare to Scientific Research
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Title:		 Friday, May 5, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 103 (Colloquia)
Dr. Stephen Tsang
Columbia University
Precision Genome Surgery for Imprecision Medicine
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Title:		 Friday, June 02, 2017 – 12:00pm –Room 206 (Colloquia)
Dr. Juan Carlos Letelier
Universidad De Chile
ECG and Random Noise: Envelope Analysis of EEG Traces
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Title:		 Tuesday, June 13, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 103 (PhD Dissertation Defense)
Cristina Llerena Law
SUNY College of Optometry
Binocular Approaches to Perceptual Learning in Adult Amblyopia
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Title:		 Friday, June 16, 2017 – 12:00pm –1118 (Colloquia)
Dr. Huaiyu Hu
Upstate Medical University
A Role of Ciliary Pocket Matrix in Maintaining Photoreceptor Survival
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Title:		 Thursday, August 03, 2017 – 11:00am – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense)
Kaushambi Roy
SUNY College of Optometry
Gap Junctional Coupling Between Retinal Amacrine and Ganglion Cells Underlies Coherent Spike Activity Integral to Global Object Perception