Neuroscience and Vision Symposium
Program
November 19th - 20th, 2009
National Institutes of Health - Bethesda Campus
Thursday, November 19thBldg 45 - Natcher, Balconies A and B |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 | Registration & coffee |
| Evening Session | |
| Chairperson: | Bruce Cumming, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Section on Vision, Laboratory of Sensorymotor Research, National Eye Institute (NEI), NIH |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | KICK-OFF SEMINAR King-Wai Yau, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University Light Detection in the Retina |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Light refreshments |
Friday, November 20thBldg 10 - Lipsett Amphitheatre |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration & coffee |
| Morning Session | |
| 9:00 - 9:05 | WELCOME ADDRESS Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D. Director, NEI, NIH |
| Chairperson: | Bob Wurtz, Ph.D. Chief, Visuomotor Integration Section, NEI, NIH |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS William Newsome, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Using the visual system as a probe for higher cortical function |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Edward N. Pugh, Jr, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, California Mouse cone photoreceptors: ups and downs in the creation of a mouse with human-like (425 nm) S-opsin |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Jonathan Demb, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Kellogg Eye Center Neural circuits and synapses for early visual processing |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | PRESENTATIONS BY NEI FELLOWS AND INVESTIGATORS Wei Li, Ph.D. Head, Unit on Retinal Neurophysiology, NEI, NIH The photoreceptor ribbon synapse in the hibernating ground squirrel retina Rebecca Berman, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Visuomotor Integration Section, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI, NIH The second visual pathway: what does the thalamus tell cortex? Douglas Kim, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration & Repair Laboratory, NEI, NIH Functional Genomic Approaches to Studying Mammalian Retinal Circuit Formation Bruce Cumming, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Section on Vision, Laboratory of Sensorymotor Research, NEI, NIH Evidence that the brain alters sensory input to promote perceptual stability |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session | |
| Chairperson: | Sheldon Miller, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Research, NEI, NIH |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Michael Stryker, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco Amblyopia and the mechanisms of competition in developing visual cortex David Zee, M.D. Professor of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University Saccadic eye movements and ion channels: a translational interface |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Coffee break |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Joanna Jen, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles New Insights into an Inherited Vasculopathy of the Eye and Brain Kenneth (Kurt) Fischbeck, M.D. Chief, Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH Studies of hereditary neurodegenerative disease |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | OVERVIEW AND CONCLUDING REMARKS Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D. Director, NEI, NIH |
