Oxyopias Archive 2004

Austin Roorda, PhD
University of Houston, College of Optometry
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Understanding and Overcoming the Optical Limits of the Eye"

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Bruce Cumming, PhD
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute
Host: ...

Title: "The neural substrate of the Pulfrich effect: Perhaps he was right"

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Ione Fine, MD
Doheny Retina Institute Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Host: Marty Banks

Title: "The role of experience in complex form processing"

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Pablo Artal, PhD
Laboratorio de Optica (Departamento de Fisica), Universidad de Murcia
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Neural adaptation to the ocular aberrations explored using Adaptive Optics"

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Benjamin T. Backus, PhD
Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Marty Banks

Title: "Change in vergence as a mechanism for measuring relative disparity"

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Luis Diaz Santana, PhD
Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University, London, United Kingdom
Host: Clifton Schor

Title: "Adaptive Optics: The new challenges"

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Debra A. Schaumberg, ScD, OD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Host: Suzanne Fleiszig

Title: "Systemic markers of inflammation and risk of diabetic retinopathy"

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Heidi Hofer, PhD
Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, New York
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Adaptive Optics and Vision"

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Rod Bremner, PhD
University of Toronto
Host: John Flannery

Title: "RB and Chx10 in retinal development and cancer"

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Jaime McLellan, PhD
Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston
Host: Stan Klein

Title: "Wave Aberrations: Planned Imperfection?"

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Peter Ulric Tse, PhD
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Host: Stanley Klein

Title: "The role of contour discontinuities in visual form/motion processing"

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Leo Chalupa, PhD
University of California, Davis
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "A New Perspective on the Role of Retinal Activity in Development of the Visual System"

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Phil Kellman, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Stephen Palmer

Title: "Aspects of the 4-Dimensional Geometry of Visual Object Formation"

This is an Irvin Rock Memorial Lecture.

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Robert Frazor, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Perceptual Systems, The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Ralph Freeman

Title: "The Response Properties of Striate Cortex Neurons: Why Transience Matters"

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Terry Young, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics;
Director of Ophthalmic Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Myopia Genetics"

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Michael J. Mustari, PhD
Emory University, Georgia
Host: Clifton Schor

Title: "Potential Role of MST Cortex in the Synthesis of Vergence Commands"

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Mark Nawrot, PhD
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University
Host: Marty Banks

Title: "Slow eye movements in the perception of depth from motion parallax"

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Eli Peli, MSc, OD, FAAO
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Schepens Eye Research Institute
Host: Stanley Klein

Title: "Optometric and Engineering Concepts Combined in the Design of Low Vision Devices"

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Jeffrey Thompson, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, Vision Science Program
Host: Ralph Freeman

Title: "Simultaneous Measurements of Tissue Oxygen and Neural Activity: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging"

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Hemai Parthasarathy, PhD
Senior Editor, Public Library of Science
Host: Marilyn Schneck

Title: "Opening Access to Science: What Every Scientist Should Know When Deciding Where to Publish"

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Maureen Powers, PhD
Senior Scientist, Gemstone Foundation, Rodeo, California
Host: Ted Cohn

Title: "Reading and the Visual System"

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Gino Cortopassi, PhD
Dept. of Molecular Biosciences, University of California, Davis
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Mitochondria, Microarray, and Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Mechanisms"

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Desmond Fonn, DipOptom, MOptom
Director, Centre for Contact lens Research; Professor, School of Optometry; University of Waterloo
Host: Suzanne Fleiszig

Title: "New Techniques for measuring and understanding corneal function"

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Ying Han, PhD
Vision Science Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Anthony Adams

Title: "Predicting Specific Retinal Sites of Diabetic Retinopathy Onset from Multifocal ERG Recordings"

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Thomas White , PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York
Host: Xiaohua Gong

Title: "Connexin specialization in the lens"

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Cliff Schor, OD, PhD
Professor of Vision Science and Optometry, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Stanley Klein

Title: "A Pulse-Step Model of Accommodation Dynamics in the Aging Eye"

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John Liu, PhD
Professor, University of California, San Diego
Host: Chris Wildsoet

Title: "Twenty-four-hour change of intraocular pressure and its clinical implications"

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Brad Fortune, OD, PhD
Assistant Scientist, Discoveries in Sight, Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon
Host: Anthony Adams

Title: "The role of retinal, choroidal and optic nerve blood flow in experimental glaucoma: a nested problem in rats"

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Irv Zucker , PhD
Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title: "Biological Rhythms, Melatonin, and Neuroendocrine Function"

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Panagiotis A. Tsonis
Leonard A. Mann, S.M., Chair in the Sciences; Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Dayton, OH
Host: Xiaohua Gong

Title: "Mechanisms in the Induction of Lens Regeneration"

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