| Vision Science Research Center Visiting Scholars Program | |
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Timothy Gawne, PhD Director, VSRC Visiting Scholars Program (205) 934-5495 tgawne@uab.edu |
| Schedule | ||
| 10/13/2023 | Bartlett W. Mel, PhD | Host: Allan Dobbins, PhD |
| Dendrites lie at the crux of a customizable cortical computing architecture | ||
| 05/20/2022 | P. Michael Iuvone, PhD, FARVO | Host: Tim Gawne, PhD |
| Retinal Dopamine and Circadian Clocks: Roles in Eye Development, Function, and Dysfunction | ||
| 04/22/2022 | Christopher Passaglia, PhD | Host: Crawford Downs, PhD |
| Continuous Monitoring and Control of Intraocular Pressure in Conscious Rats | ||
| 04/02/2021 | Martin Banks, PhD | Host: Timothy Gawne, PhD |
| Binocular vision & oculomotor behavior are adapted to the statistics of the natural environment | ||
| 01/08/2021 | Lisa M. Renzi-Hammond, PhD | Host: Christine A. Curcio, PhD |
| From Retina to Brain: Macular Carotenoids, and the Development of the Neural Efficiency Hypothesis | ||
| 11/20/2020 | Tiffany M. Schmidt, PhD | Host: Karen Gamble, PhD |
| Illuminating Circadian Circuits | ||
| 11/06/2020 | Steven M. Silverstein, PhD | Host: Junghee Lee, PhD |
| Disturbances of Retinal Structure and Function in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, and their Clinical Implications | ||
| 10/23/2020 | Alexandra Benavente-Pérez, MCOptom MS PhD FAAO | Host: Thomas Norton, PhD, FAAO |
| Where is Myopia Research At? | ||
| 05/08/2020 | Ian Flitcroft, MA, D.Phil(oxon), MB BS, FRCOphth | Host: Timothy Gawne, PhD |
| Myopia, Modernism and Mobiles | ||
| 03/05/2020 | Johan Pahlberg, PhD(NINDS) | Host: Steven Pittler, PhD |
| How rod photoresponses are processed and parsed into the retinal circuitry | ||
| 02/14/2020 | Lisa Ostrin, OD, PhD(University of Houston College of Optometry) | Host: Timothy Gawne, PhD |
| Environmental and behavioral influences on circadian rhythm and eye growth | ||
| 01/24/2020 | Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, PhD(Max Planch Florida Institute) | Host: Summer Thyme, PhD |
| Visuotopy anchors functional maps in treeshrew visual system | ||
| 02/08/2019 | Regan Ashby, PhD(University of Canberra) | Host: Timothy Gawne, PhD |
| "Elucidating the signalling pathways underlying ocular growth" | ||
| 01/11/2019 | Wei Li, PhD(National Eye Institute) | Host: Tom Norton, PhD |
| "Neurobiology of the ground squirrel retina and beyond" | ||
| 12/07/2018 | Felice Dunn, PhD(University of California, San Francisco) | Host: Lawrence Sincich, PhD |
| "A mature retinal circuit withstands input loss through structural and functional resilience" | ||
| 09/07/18 | Sabrina Reinehr, PhD(Ruhr University Bochum) | Host: Rafael Grytz, PhD |
| "Immune alterations in different glaucoma" | ||
| 06/15/18 | Debora Nickla, PhD(New England College of Optometry) | Host: Andrew D. Pucker, OD. PhD |
| "Circadian rhythms in eye growth: altered ocular growth rates and altered rhythm parameters" | ||
| 04/20/18 | Gregory Horwitz, PhD(U. Washington) | Host: Paul Gamlin, PhD |
| “Visual information processing: cones, cortex and color” | ||
| 03/30/18 | Teresa Puthussery OD, PhD(U. California, Berkeley) | Host: Lawrence Sincich, PhD |
| "Mechanisms shaping photoreceptor function in the healthy and diseased retina" | ||
| 02/16/18 | Harald Junge, PhD | Host: Christine A. Curcio, PhD |
| "Mechanisms of Norrin/Frizzled4 Signaling in Retinal Angiogenesis and Blood-Retina Barrier Formation" | ||
Dear Vision Science Researchers:
The Visiting Scholars Program is an seminar series dedicated to communicating scientific results and ideas about vision research between a renowned scholar from another institution and our VSRC affiliates. The program is enriched by devoting a full day of collegial visits to labs, a cornerstone seminar, and a student-centered luncheon with the visiting scholar. Every year, suggestions for speakers are solicited from the UAB vision community, and a diverse program is assembled for the academic year. We represent the full range of vision research, from basic mechanisms of photoreceptor function through to translational efforts to restore vision loss in clinical populations. The Visiting Scholars Program is funded in part by the University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Center mechanism and the Dean of the School of Optometry.
Timothy Gawne, PhD
Program Director
VSRC Visiting Scholars Program
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