Videocasts on Vision Science and Eye Health

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• NEI 40th Anniversary Symposia Series
• Sayer Vision Research Lecture
• Other Scientific Presentations
• Presentations for the General Public

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NEI 40th Anniversary Symposia Series

Read more about the NEI 40th Anniversary

• Translational Research and Vision, June 24-25th, 2010
  View the Videocast for June 24
  View the Videocast for June 25
  Overview Message by Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D, NIH Director
• Focus on Glaucoma, February 18-19, 2010
  View the Videocast for February 18
  View the Videocast for February 19
• Neuroscience and Vision, November 19-20, 2009
  View the Videocast for November 19
  View the Videocast for November 20
• Advances in Optical Imaging and Biomedical Science, June 1-2, 2009
  View the Videocast for June 1
  View the Videocast for June 2
• Genetics and Genomics in Vision, April 16-17, 2009
  View the Videocast for April 17
• NEI 40th Anniversary Opening Program, April 3, 2009
  View the Videocast for April 3

Sayer Vision Research Lecture

Read more about the Sayer Vision Lecture series

• Basic Science and Clinical Application of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, June 30, 2011
  Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., winner of a 2010 Lasker Award
  
• Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors, March 10, 2010
  Roger Tsien, Ph.D., winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
  (NIH only)
• G protein-coupled Receptor Signaling in Phototransduction, October 5, 2007
  Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D., John H. Hord Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University
  
• Stemming Vision Loss with Stem Cells, May 25, 2006
  Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute
  

Scientific Presentations

• CC Grand Rounds Lecture Series: (1) Main Results of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Disease (ACCORD) Trial in Type 2 Diabetes (2) Results of ACCORD Medical Therapies on Diabetic Retinopathy, March 30, 2011
  Denise Simons-Morton, M.D., Ph.D., NHLBI and Emily Y. Chew, M.D., NEI
  
• NIH Director's Seminars: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Visual Perception, April 15, 2011
  David Leopold, Ph.D., NIMH
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision, March 16, 2011
  Alexander Borst, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
  
• Neuroscience Seminar Series: Getting a Sense of Direction: Combination of Sensory Cues Improves Spatial Perception, March 07, 2011
  Dora Angelaki, Ph.D., Washington University St. Louis
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: Seeing is Believing— A Gene Therapy Success, December 15, 2010
  Jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  
• Neuroscience Seminar Series: Probabilistic Inference in Neural Circuits: From Humans to Insects, December 06, 2010
  Alexandre Pouget, Ph.D., University of Rochester
  
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Synaptic Transmission at the Ribbon Synapses of the Eye and Ear, November 01, 2010
  Henrique von Gersdorff, Ph.D., Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: The Evolution of Primate Color Vision, September 22, 2010
  Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—Strategies to Slow the Onset of Blindness in Retinitis Pigmentosa, September 29, 2010
  Connie Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard University
  
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series: Binocular Function in Strabismus, April 26, 2010
  Jonathan Horton, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
  
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Retinal Stem Cells, Progenitors and Regeneration: a Bird's Eye View, December 5, 2005
  Thomas Reh, Ph.D., University of Washington
  
• NEI Symposium: Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Complement Factor H, June 14, 2005
  Michael Pangburn, Ph.D., University of Texas and Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series—A Neuronal Mechanism for Visual Spatial Attention, June 13, 2005
  Robert Wurtz, Ph.D., Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—What is Human Stereopsis Good For?, March 16, 2005
  Suzanne P. McKee, Ph.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
  
• NIH Director's Seminars— How Cortical Neurons Support Perception in a Three Dimensional World, February 11, 2005
  Bruce Cumming, Ph.D., M.D., Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI
  
• NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Unsuspected Roles of Firing Threshold in Visual Cortex, January 24, 2005
  Matteo Carandini, Ph.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
  
• Great Teachers Ground Rounds— Graves' Disease: The Eyes Have It, November 10, 2004
  Len Wartofsky, M.D., Washington Hospital Center
  
• NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—Genomics Approaches to Photoreceptor Development and Disease, June 23, 2004
  Connie Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard University
  
• Summer Lecture Series for Students—Retinitis Pigmentosa: Genetic Retinal Photoreceptor Degenerations, July 22, 2003
  Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI
  
• NIH Director's Seminars—Cytotoxic Effects of Oxidized Cholesterol on RPE Cells, March 7, 2003
  Ignacio Rodriguez, Ph.D., Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, NEI
  
• Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) News Conference, Friday, October 12, 2001
  Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI and Frederick L. Ferris III, M.D., Director of Clinical Research, NEI
  
• NIH Director's Seminars—Interferon Regulatory Transcription Factors: Roles in Ocular Autoimmune Diseases and Tumor Regression, Friday, January 26, 2001
  Charles Egwuagu, Ph.D., Laboratory of Immunology, NEI
  

Presentations for the General Public

Focus on You Wellness Lecture Series: From Carrots to Cataracts: A tour of your eyes in sickness and in health (and how to keep them healthy), May 18, 2011
Rachel J. Bishop, M.D., M.P.H, NEI

• NEI on YouTube
• Cataract, March 17, 2011
  Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration, January 12, 2011
  Rachel Bishop, M.D.. M.P.H., NEI
• Glaucoma, January 11, 2011
  Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
  
• Diabetic Eye Disease, January 3, 2011
  Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
  
• Dry Eye, December 14, 2010
  Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
  
• Dilated Eye Exam, October 6, 2010
  Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
  
• STEP Symposium: From Amyblyopia to Zits: A Health Fair Forum (HHS Only), January 11, 2011
  Various speakers including Wadih Zein, M.D., NEI
  
• Life Works: Ophthalmologist, March 31, 2010
  Emily Chew, M.D., NEI
  
• Retinopathy of Prematurity, June 04, 2010
  Brian Brooks, M.D., Ph.D., NEI and William V. Good., M.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
  
• BrainPort (a device that delivers visual information to the tongue), May 18, 2009
• NEI Interview with Mike Oberdorfer, Ph.D., Neuroscience Program Director, NEI
• NEI Interview with Erik Weihenmayer, Brainport User
• NEI Interview with Bob Beckman, President and CEO of Wicab, Inc.
• Eye on NEI
• Demystifying Medicine—Blindness, March 17, 2009
  Joram Piatigorsky, Ph.D., NEI and Robert Nussenblatt, M.D., NEI
  
• Medicine for the Public—From Childhood Blindness to Age-related Macular Degeneration: Genes, Eye Disease and Prospects for Therapy, October 16, 2007
  Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI
  
• Medicine for the Public—Nutritional Therapies for Age-Related Eye Diseases, October 8, 2002
  Emily Chew, M.D., NEI