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2012-20 SIVR Colloquia

Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 10, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Paul Glimcher New York University The neurobiology of visuo-saccadic decision making
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, February 16, 2012 –12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Amy Nau University of Pittsburgh Medical Center A taste of vision
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 2, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Bart Krekelberg Rutgers University Neural mechanisms of perceptual stability
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 23, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. William Guido Virginia Commonwealth University Circuit development in the visual thalamus
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 4, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Ben Thompson University of Auckland Harnessing brain plasticity to improve visual function in amblyopia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 4, 2012 – 3:30 – Alumni Commons Dr. Ben Thompson University of Auckland What can brain imaging tell us about amblyopia?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, June 12, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Tracy Nguyen Indiana University School of Optometry Lactate transport across the corneal endothelium
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 19, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Marcus Missal L’Université Catholique de Louvain Causality perception and anticipatory eye movements
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, October 25, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Timo Van Kerkoerle The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Feedforward & feedback activity in monkey visual cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, October 31, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Nicole Carnt Moorfields Eye Hospital Epidemiology & genetics of corneal inflammatory events
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 16, 2012 – 10:00 – Alumni Commons Preethi Thiagarajan SUNY College of Optometry Oculomotor rehabilitation for reading dysfunction in mild traumatic brain injury
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday December 6, 2012 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Alan Freeman The University of Sydney A functional model for primary visual cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 18, 2013 -12:00 -Alumni Commons Dr. Robert Hess McGill University, Canada A Binocular Approach to Treating Amblyopia
Date:Speaker: Affiliation:Title:	Friday, February 15, 2013- 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Alfredo Kirkwood Johns Hopkins University Neuromodulation of Ocular Dominance Plasticity
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, Februrary 20, 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Jerry Sherman SUNY College of Optometry Advances in imaging of the Retina and Choroid
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, April 18, 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Rowan Candy Indiana University School of Optometry The visual experience of the young hyperope
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April, 26 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Thomas Serre Brown University Bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 17, 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons Dr. Christoph Witzel University of Sussex, UK, School of Psychology Perceptual correlates of color categorization
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, August 27, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 1519 Robert Ennis SUNY College of Optometry The Role of Mental Representations in the Geometrical Structure of Color Similarity Judgments
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, September 3, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Suresh Viswanathan SUNY College of Optometry Objective estimation of retinal ganglion cell dysfunction
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, September 17, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Teng Leng Ooi Salus University Improving binocular vision of normals and amblyopes with a push pull perceptual learning protocol
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Marilyn Vricella SUNY College of Optometry Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 1, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. MaryAnn Banerji SUNY Downstate Medical Center Type 2 diabetes and a new NIH study on the effectiveness of diabetes treatment
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 11, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Stephen Van Hooser Brandeis University Choosing which way to go: the experience-dependent development of cortical direction
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 15, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Michael Shadlen Columbia University Believing and Time. A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 18, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Michael Sullivan-Mee Albuquerque VA Medical Centery Patient-driven research
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 29, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222Dr. Alexandra Benavente SUNY College of OptometrySpatial and Temporal Integration of Refractive Development
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, November 6, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Clemens Boucsein Albert-Ludwigs-University The rodeo of spiking: on the importance of having a saddle in the bumpy regime
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, November 19, 2013 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Odelia Schwartz Albert Einstein College of Medicine Contextual influences in vision and natural image statistics
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 3, 2013 – 1:00 – Room 222 Stanley Komban SUNY College of Optometry Neuronal and perceptual differences in the processing of Darks and Light
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, December 9, 2013 – 11:00 – Room 1118 Yushi Wang SUNY College of Optometry Functional Organization of Topographic Maps in Primary Visual Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 10, 2013 – 12:00 – Alumni Commons (18th Floor) Dr. Joo-Hyun Song Brown University Attention and visuomotor processes
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, January 28, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Alexandra Benavente SUNY College of Optometry Spatial and Temporal Integration of Refractive Development
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 7, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Mark Rosenfield SUNY College of Optometry Today’s technology: Yesterday’s eye exam
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 11, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Toco Chui New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Monitoring Longitudinal Vasculopathic Changes in Human Retina using Offset Pinhole Adaptive Optics Scanning Light Ophthalmoscopy
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 18, 2014- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Robert Wojciechowski John Hopkins University Refractive Error Research in the Genomics Era
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 25, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Bosco Tjan University of Southern California Form Vision without Fovea: image representation and gaze control
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 7th, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Sabine Kastner Princeton University Network dynamics for attentional selection in the primate brain
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, March 18, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Susana Chung University of California, Berkeley Plasticity of the visual system following macular lesions
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, March 25, 2014 – 12:20 – Room 222 Dr. Dennis Levi University of California, Berkeley Removing the brakes on plasticity in the amblyopic brain
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 1, 2014 – 12:05 – Room 222 Dr. Andy Hartwick Ohio State University Slow but Steady: Temporal Properties of Ganglion Cell Photoreceptors
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 8, 2014 – 12:05 – Room 222 Dr. Andrew Parker University of Oxford The binocular brain: seeing in depth with two eyes.
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, April 21, 2014 – 12:00 – 18th Floor Alumni Commons Dr. William Tuten University of California – Berkeley Single-cone psychophysics with adaptive optics
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 29, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Christopher Niell University of Oregon Visual processing and behavioral state in the mouse
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, May 13, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Nicola Anstice The University of Auckland Myopia – Can we control it?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, June 10, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Donald Hood Columbia University Glaucomatous Damage of the Macula
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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.
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, September 23, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Stephen A. Burns School of Optometry – Indiana University Imaging the Retinal Vasculature and Blood Flow
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 7, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Zhong-Lin Lu The Ohio State University Efficient Assessment of Visual Deficits in Amblyopia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 7, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Martin Banks University of California – Berkeley Stereopsis is Optimized for the Natural Environment
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, November 10, 2014 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Susana Marcos Instituto de Óptica Shedding light into Crystalline lens optics, accommodation, and presbyopia treatment
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 24, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Machelle Pardue Emory University Retinal contributions to myopia susceptibility
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, March 10, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Jamie Mazer Yale School of Medicine Stabilizing visual and attention representations during natural vision
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Speaker: Dr. Heather Anderson Affiliation: University of Houston Title: A Medley of Objectivity: Amplitude, Astigmatism, and Spectacle Compliance
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 14, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Christopher Clark Indiana University Retinal profile and structural differences between myopes and emmetropes
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 21, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Alex Huk University of Texas at Austin Decision-correlated activity in the posterior parietal cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, May 12, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Shiri Azenkot Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech Designing Technology for Blind People
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, May 26, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Atanu Ghosh University of Rochester Optical and biomechanical factors associated with near work and myopia

Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, June 1, 2015- 12:00 – Room 206 Dr. John E. Dowling Harvard University The Zebrafish: An Animal that Sees
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, June 2, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Wendy Harrison Midwestern University Methods for Early Detection of Diabetic Eye Disease
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, September 25, 2015- 12:00 – 18th Floor Alumni Commons Dr. Lynne Kiorpes New York University Neural correlates of amblyopia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	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

Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 20, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Harold Bedell The University of Houston Crowding and Contour Interaction: More is Different
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 4, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Dario Ringach University of California – Los Angeles Micro-organization of tuning selectivity in mouse primary visual cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 11, 2015- 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Michael Goldberg Columbia University Cortical Mechanisms for Attention and Arousal
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 22, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Nicholas J. Priebe The University of Texas at Austin Binocular Integration in Mouse Visual Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 19, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Audrey Bernstein Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Pathological Protein Accumulation in the Eye
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 26, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 Dr. Elena Ivanova Cornell University Leveraging Optogenetic-Based Neurovascular Circuit Characterization for Repair
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, March 17, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Job Candidate) Dr. Bikash R. Pattnaik University of Wisconsin-Madison Novel therapy for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis using patient-in-adish
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 18, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) Dr. David James Field Cornell University Unraveling the natural scene manifold: A geometric approach to understanding non-linearities in the visual pathway
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 25th, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) Kalanit Grill-Spector Stanford University The functional neuroanatomy of face perception
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 15, 2016 – 12:00 -12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) Dr. Michael Twa University of Alabama at Birmingham Elasticity Imaging and Corneal Biomechanics
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 22, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) Dr. Alessandra Angelucci University of Utah Contextual integration in primary visual cortex: circuits, mechanisms and function.
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, May 9, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 27, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 206 (Colloquia) Dr. Jonathan A Winawer New York University Spatial and Temporal Integration in the Human Visual Pathways
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, June 10, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Roger Tootell Harvard University Visualizing and Linking Columnar Streams in Human Visual Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, September 02, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Lisa Ostrin University of Houston Objectively Measured Light Exposure and Eye Growth in Children: Potential Role of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 07, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Nicole Rust University of Pennsylvania The Superposition of Visual and Rule-based Representations in IT Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 14, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Douglas McMahon Vanderbilt University Retina Neural Network Adaptation: Dopamine and Circadian Mechanisms
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, October 24, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 25, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense) Lauren Wool SUNY College of Optometry Color Vision: From Cells to Salience
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 28, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Steven K. Shevell University of Chicago Perceptual Resolution of Neural Ambiguity
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 4, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Tatyana Sharpee Salk Institute for Biological Studies Neural Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 02, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Kristine Dalton University of Waterloo The Sports Vision Challenge
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 09, 2016 – 12:00 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Jimmy Zhou Yale University School of Medicine Glutamate-glycine Co-transmission in the Retina
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 13, 2017 – 11:30 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Gaby Maimon The Rockefeller University Quantitatively Tuned Efference Copies During Gaze Changes in Drosophila
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 20, 2017 – 11:30 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Weiji Ma New York University The Representation of Uncertainty in Visual Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 27, 2017 – 11:30 – Room 222 (Colloquia) Dr. Pauline Kang University of New South Wales Myopia Control with Orthokeratology
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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~~
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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~~
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 5, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 103 (Colloquia) Dr. Stephen Tsang Columbia University Precision Genome Surgery for Imprecision Medicine
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: 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
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, September 25, 2017 – 9:30am – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense) Nabin Joshi SUNY College of Optometry Objective Assessment of Retinal Ganglion Cell Damage in Glaucoma
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 17, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Manas Biswal University of Florida Objective Assessment of Retinal Ganglion Cell Damage in Glaucoma
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, October 31, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Catherine Cheng The Scripps Research Institute Dissecting the Mechanisms for Lifelong Homeostasis and Transparency in the Eye Lens
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 17, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Ichiro Kuriki Tohoku University Representation of Color Information in Human Visual Cortex
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, November 28, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Didem Goz Ayturk Harvard Medical School Inhibitory Interneuron Diversity and Connectivity in the Retina: Discovery of an On Mono-Polar Amacrine Cell
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 5, 2017 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Stefanie Wohl University of Washington The Role of miRNAs in Muller glia Maturation and Function
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 12, 2017 – 12:30pm – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense) Romain Bachy SUNY College of Optometry Color Perception in Context: Effects of Eye Movements, Adaptation, Lateral Interaction, Scission and Integration
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, December 14, 2017 – 2:00pm – Room 222 (PhD Dissertation Defense) Tianhao Cai SUNY College of Optometry Binocular Global Motion Perception: Stimulus Interactions in Random-dot Kinematograms
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, January 9, 2018– 12:00pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Carson K. Wong SUNY College of Optometry Neural Filters for Decoding Shapes from Texture Cues
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 23, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Gregory W Schwartz Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Investigating a Physiological Link to Accommodation and Emmetropization
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 27, 2018– 5:00pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Emily Freeman SUNY College of Optometry Macular Changes in Multifocal Photopic Negative Response, Ganglion Cell Complex Thickness, and Visual Field Sensitivity in Glaucoma Patients
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 9, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Winrich Freiwald The Rockefeller University The Dual Face: Vision’s Inroad into the Social Brain
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 9, 2018– 2:30pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Danica Yang SUNY College of Optometry Novel Biomarkers in Early-Onset Stargardt Disease
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 16, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Christopher Dainty University College London Institute of Ophthalmology Adaptive Optics and Vision Science
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 23, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Mateusz Jaskulski Indiana University Bloomington Digital Image Processing in Modern Optics Research – Ocular Aberrations, Objective Image Quality Metrics and Applications of Face Detection
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, March 28, 2018– 2:00pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Jennifer Nguyen SUNY College of Optometry Spatial Contrast Sensitivity Function of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, April 9, 2018, 4:00 PM, Lecture Hall 103 Meredith Stallone SUNY College of Optometry CD147 in the Dry Eye Tear Film (Master Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, April 12, 2018, 3:00pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Kathleen Hoang SUNY College of Optometry Autonomic Innervation and Digital Eye Strain
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 13, 2018, 3:30pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Roa Al-Abdalla SUNY College of Optometry The Photopic Negative Response of the Full-Field Flash Electroretinogram in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 9:00am – Room 206 (PhD Dissertation Defense) Nefeli Slavi SUNY College of Optometry The Role of Connexin 43 Phosphorylation in Astrocyte Apoptosis and Pathologic Neovascularization in Proliferative Retinal Disease
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 20, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Falk Schroedl Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg Austria Choroidal Innervation and Choroidal Accommodation: Why? How? What for?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, April 25, 2018– 10:30am – Room 222(PhD Dissertation Defense) Reza Azadi SUNY College of Optometry Planning and Execution of Sequential Saccades in the Human Oculomotor System
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, April 25, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Hadas Ben Eli Hadassah Academic College Environmental and Infectious Exposures, Immune Biomarkers and Genetic Factors in Dry Eye Syndrome, Sjogren’s Syndrome and B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, April 25, 2018 – 2:30pm – Room 206 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) Ayah Ahamed SUNY College of Optometry Evaluation of Techniques to Detect a Known Change in Astigmatism
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, April 26, 2018 – 1:30pm – Room 222 (Master’s Thesis Seminar) MuEn Yang SUNY College of Optometry Dynamic Color and Brightness Adaptation Abnormalities in Early Stages of Glaucoma
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 27, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Ian Nauhaus University of Texas Functional Architecture of Primate V1
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 25, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Frank Schaeffel Institute of Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen Levels of Spatio-temporal Visual Adaptation and Potential Effects on Eye Growth
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, June 14, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Seang Mei Saw National University of Singapore The Prevention of Myopia-related Blindness
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, June 22, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Vivian Choh University of Waterloo Understanding and Altering Mechanical Stress in the Visual System
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, August 06, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 103 (Dissertation Defense) Erin Koch SUNY College of Optometry Geometry of Visual Cortex and 3D Perception
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, August 21, 2018 – 10:00am – Room 222 (Dissertation Defense) Kevin Willeford SUNY College of Optometry An Analysis of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Covert and Overt Spatial Attention
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, September 14, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Tonia Rex Vanderbilt Eye Institute Mechanisms and Therapy for Optic Nerve Trauma
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 09, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Bas Rokers University of Wisconsin – Madison Motion Perception in Three Dimensions
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 16, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Denis Pelli New York University The Phenomenon of Crowding Offers Clues into How People Recognize Objects
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, November 20, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Tatsiana Palavets SUNY College of Optometry Blue-blocking Filters and Digital Eyestrain (Master’s Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 30, 2018 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Darlene Archer Usrey Lab at University of California, Davis ON-OFF Asymmetries in Contrast Gain and Spatial Integration in the Macaque LGN
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 18, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Elissa Aminoff Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Fordham University From Associations to Computer Vision: Scene Understanding in the Brain
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 05, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Regan Ashby University of Canberra, Australia Elucidating the Signalling Pathways Underlying Ocular Growth
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 01, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Ning Qian Columbia University Some Thoughts on Visual Encoding and Decoding
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 06, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Robert Ennis University of Geissen, Germany The Color Appearance of 3-D, Thick, Transparent Objects
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Wednesday, March 13, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Nolan Wilson Suny College of Optometry Object Segmentation: A Method of Understanding the Evolutionary Significance of L- and M-Cones. (Master’s Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 15, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Prof. James H. Elder York University, Toronto Canada Human and Machine Perception of 3D Shape from Contour
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 29, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Bryan William Jones University of Utah The Ultrastructure of Retinal Circuitry in Health and Disease
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, April 02, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Juan “Jenny” Huang The Ohio State University Myopia and Beyond
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 05, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Jacob Feldman Rutgers University Complexity of Decision Rules in Shape Classification
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 12, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Emily Cooper University of California, Berkeley Natural, Virtual, and Augmented 3D Vision
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, April 15, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Rita Nieu SUNY College of Optometry The Role of Spherical Aberration and ON-Bipolar Function in Eye Growth – (Master’s Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, April 15, 2019 – 1:00pm – Room 222 Brenda Tan Suny College of Optometry Making a Model of Myopia – (Master’s Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 19, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Louis Pasquale Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital The Role of Nitric Oxide Signaling in Glaucomatous Neuro-degeneration
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Thursday, April 25, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Franklin Bui Suny College of Optometry The Effect of Low-Dose Atropine on the Biometry of the Choroid and Other Ocular Structures in Healthy Adults – (Master’s Thesis Seminar)
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, April 26, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. Riccardo Natoli Australian National University, Canberra How light exposure contributes to retinal degenerations
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 10, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. David Berson Brown University Retinal circuits for visual reflexes
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, May 17, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Brett Joseph King Indiana University Adaptive Optics Gonioscopy of the Human Trabecular Meshwork in vivo
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, June 07, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Bradley Dougherty The Ohio State University Driving with Central Vision Impairment
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, June 14, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 101 Dr. Shiri Azenkot The Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell University Augmenting Reality to Support People with Low Vision in Daily Tasks
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, September 17, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Shirin E. Hassan Indiana University School of Optometry Decisions, Decisions: Is it Safe to Cross the Street?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, September 20, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Mulugeta Semework Columbia University How do you remember your environment? Vision and memory, and how ML/AI can help our understanding
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, September 27, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 206 Dr. David C. Lyon University of California, Irvine Quality of Responses Generated in Visual Cortex by Retinal Sheet Transplants in Models of Severe Retinal Degeneration
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, October 11, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Edward Levine Vanderbilt University Medical Center Regulation of Progenitor Properties During Retinal Development
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 08, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Michael Iuvone Emory University School of Medicine Retinal Dopamine and Circadian Clocks: Roles in Visual Function and Dysfunction
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 15, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Emilio Salinas Wake Forest School of Medicine How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration of neural activity
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, November 19, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Xiaoying Zhu SUNY College of Optometry Temporal Integration of Visual Signals in Lens Compensation
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, November 22, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Andrew Anderson University of Melbourne Getting Back on Track After the Unexpected Happens: An Eye Movement Model of Sequenced Actions
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 06, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Krystel Huxlin University of Rochester Dynamics and Limits of Visual Plasticity in Hemianopia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Ava Bittner University of California, Los Angeles Innovative Technologies to Remotely Monitor and Provide Care for Patients with Visual Assistive Devices
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, December 13, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Jianhua Cang University of Virginia Visual Processing in the Superior Colliculus
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Monday, December 16, 2019 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Carmen Pons SUNY College of Optometry Functional and Clinical Consequences of Asymmetries between ON and OFF pathways
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, December 17, 2019 – 11:00am – Room 222 Dr. Dennis Levi UC Berkeley School of Optometry Learning to See in Depth
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, January 21, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Dimitra Makrynioti University of Patras, Greece Fighting Dry Eye Syndrome in High Myopia with Novel Contact Lens Materials Developed in Greece
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, January 21, 2020 – 12:30pm – Room 222 Sandra Wagner SUNY College of Optometry Accommodation Behavior and Ciliary Muscle Activity in Myopia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, January 24, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Steven Zucker Yale University How is it possible that we infer 3D shape from image information?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Tuesday, February 11, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Karla Zadnik The Ohio State University College of Optometry Can we predict myopia onset and/or progression?
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 14, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Daniel Wolpert Columbia University Probabilistic Models of Sensorimotor Control and Decision Making
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 21, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Maribel Vazquez Rutgers University Regenerative Potential of Muller glia
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, February 28, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Michael Berry II Princeton University The Population Code of the Retina
Date: Speaker: Affiliation: Title:	Friday, March 06, 2020 – 12:00pm – Room 222 Dr. Debora Nickla New England College of Optometry Circadian Rhythms, Refractive Development and Myopia