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Vision Science Research Center Visiting Scholar’s Program 
sincich_154 Lawrence Sincich, PhD
Director, VSRC Visiting Scholar’s Program
Mailing Address:
1530 Third Avenue South, WORB 638
Birmingham, AL 35294-4390
Office: (205) 975 3446
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Schedule 2012 - 2013
September 28, 2012 Dingcai Cao, PhD, Professor, Bioengineering & Ophthalmology, University of Washington-Seattle; Title: “Rod and cone function assessed by a four-primary method” 
Faculty Host: Paul Gamlin, PhD
November 16, 2012 Irina Pikuleva, PhD, Jules and Doris Stein RPB Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Case Western University; Title: "Cholesterol in the retina: still a lot to learn” 
Faculty Host: Christine Curcio, PhD
December 7, 2012 Laura Renninger, PhD, Associate Scientist; The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Topic: "Inefficient eye movements with central field loss” 
Faculty Host: Cynthia Owsley, PhD
January 18, 2013 Lee Goldstein, M.D., PhD, Associate Professor, Boston University, Topic: “Role of abnormal protein aggregation in chronic degenerative disorders of aging” 
Faculty Host: Om Srivastava, PhD
February 15, 2013 Linda McCloon, PhD, Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Neuroscience, University of Minnesota;Title: “Development of Pharmacologic Approaches to the Treatment of Strabismus”
Faculty Host: Claudio Busettini, PhD
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March 15, 2013 Jeff Diamond, PhD, Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health Title: "Specialized synapses compute visual information in the retina"        
Faculty Host: Timothy Kraft, PhD
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March 29, 2013 Frances Rucker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Disease; New England College of Optometry;Title: "The role of color in guiding the process of emmetropization."         
Faculty Host: Thomas Norton, PhD
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April 19, 2013 Brian Wandell, PhD, Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor, Stanford University Topic: Visual neuroscience, functional and structural MRI along with behavior testing and modeling         
Faculty Host: Kristina Visscher, PhD

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Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held on Friday at NOON
in the Sylvia Worrell Conference Center, first floor, Worrell Building 924 South 18th Street.