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Vision Science Research Center Visiting Scholar’s Program Archive

2012 - 

RKrishnamoorthy September 13, 2013    Raghu Krishnamoorthy, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy,  University of North Texas-Health Science Center, Title: “Endothelin-mediated neurodegeneration and strategies for neuroregeneration”  Faculty Host: Marina Gorbatyuk, PhD   pubMedLogo short
RowanCandy November 1, 2013     Rowan Candy, PhD, Associate Professor of Optometry, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Indiana University School of Optometry; Title: “The visual experience of the hyperopic infant”  Faculty Host: Thomas Norton, PhD pubMedLogo short
JYeh December 6, 2013     Jing-Ruey Joanna Yeh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;  Title: “Use of genome editing to manipulate the vertebrate   genome”  Faculty Host: Steven Pittler, PhD   pubMedLogo short
julio3 January 24, 2014      Julio Martinez-Trujillo, M.D., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology,    McGill University, Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience; Topic: "Investigating how the  brain transforms visual signals into coordinated motor behavior"   Faculty Host:  Timothy Gawne, PhD pubMedLogo short
mcmahon February 7, 2014    Douglas McMahon, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Pharmacology; Vanderbilt University; Title:“Neural network adaptation in the retina: dopamine and circadian mechanisms” Faculty Host: Karen Gamble, PhD pubMedLogo short
DR Williams April 11, 2014          David S. Williams, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology,Professor of Neurobiology Director, Photoreceptor Cell Biology Laboratory; University of California, Los Angeles; Jules   Stein Eye Institute; Title: "Roles of molecular motor transport in rhodopsin turnover”  Faculty Host: Alecia K. Gross Gutierrez, PhD   pubMedLogo short
Ringach April 25, 2014         Dario Ringach, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology; Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles; Topic: Visual neurophysiology, perception, cortical   dynamics, circuitry and mathematical modeling of receptive fields.   Faculty Host:  Lawrence Sincich, PhD pubMedLogo short
     


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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June 28, 2013 Michael Do, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Neurology, Center for Brain Science; F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical SchoolTopic: Biophysics of photoreception for non-image vision 
Faculty Host: Paul Gamlin, PhD

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