See the following links for information about:
HWNI Upcoming Events
- Neuroscience-related seminars, colloquia, retreats, conferences, etc. are posted at neuroscience.berkeley.edu, including events sponsored by the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) and other departments or programs.
Vision Science Oxyopias 2008 Schedule
Jan. 25, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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David Izhaky, PhD
Optical Imaging Ltd., Israel
Host: Dennis Levi
Title: Functional Optical Imaging of Retina Reveals Patterns of the Activated Retina and the Ganglion Cell Axon Arcades
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Feb. 1, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Susana Chung, MScOptom, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Optometry, University of Houston
Host: Deborah Orel-Bixler
 Faculty Search Candidate
Title: Reading in peripheral vision
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Feb. 15, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Brad Fortune, OD, PhD
Associate Scientist, Discoveries in Sight Research Laboratories, Devers Eye Institute, Portland
Host: Robert Greer
Faculty Search Candidate
Title: Bench to Bedside: Diagnostic Methods for Glaucoma Research and Clinical Care
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Feb. 21, 2008
Thursday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Konrad Pesudovs, BScOptom, PhD
Associate Professor and Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Deputy Director, NH&MRC Centre for Clinical Eye Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia
Host: Cliff Schor
Faculty Search Candidate
Title: From Rash to Rasch – The Evolution of Patient-Reported Outcomes
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Feb. 22, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Thomas Reuter, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Host: Dennis Levi
Title: Color vision at low luminosity and limited spectral ranges
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Feb. 29, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD
Department of Neurology, Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Host: Austin Roorda
Faculty Search Candidate
Title: Is the Visual Cortex Really Visual?
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Mar. 7, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Andrew W. Taylor, PhD
Associate Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Host: Karsten Gronert
Title: Neuropeptide regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in ocular immune privilege
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Mar. 14, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Justin Ales, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, San Francisco
Host: Stanley Klein
Title: Using the folding fingerprint of visual cortex to disambiguate EEG responses from human V1 and V2
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Mar. 21, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Joseph Carroll, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Host: Austin Roorda
Title: Visualizing the effect of disruptions in the cone pigment genes on the organization of the cone mosaic
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Apr. 3, 2008
Thursday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Gerald Jacobs, PhD
Research Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: TBA
 Russell De Valois Memorial Lecture [info]
Title: Unraveling Mammalian Color Vision
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Apr. 4, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Bruce Cumming, MD, PhD
Disparity Section, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD
Host: Ralph Freeman
Title: Where do correlations between neuronal activity and sensory decisions originate?
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Apr. 11, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
100 Minor
Hall
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Donald Korb, OD
Clinical Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Clinical practice, Boston, MA
Host: Kenneth Polse
Title: The Tear Film and Dry Eye States — A Fertile Research Area
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Apr. 18, 2008
CANCELLED
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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J. Douglas Crawford, PhD
Professor, Psychology, Biology and Kinesiology & Health Science, York University, Toronto
Host: Martin Banks
CANCELLED
Title: Spatial Updating for Perception and Motor Control
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July 25, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Pablo Artal, PhD
Professor, Laboratorio de Optica (Departamento de Fisica), Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Host: Austin Roorda
Title: The human eye as an optimized aplanatic optical design
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Sept. 12, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Shinji Nishimoto, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Jack Gallant
Title: A Three-Dimensional Space-Time Model of MT Neurons that Predicts Responses to Natural Movies
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Sept. 19, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Miguel Eckstein, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Michael Silver
Title: Predictive cues in visual search: Optimal Bayesian observers, neurons and sardines
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Oct. 3, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Stephen Baccus, PhD
Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology
Host: Marla Feller
Title: Object motion sensitivity and adaptation in retinal circuitry
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Oct. 24, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Title: Geometric and photometric constraints in the perception of contours, surfaces and materials
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Nov. 21, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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Michael Stern, PhD
Vice President, Inflammation Research Program, Biological Sciences, Allergan Inc, Irvine, CA
Host: Suzanne Fleiszig
Regents' Lecture
Open/free to public; disability-related accommodations available
Title: Dry Eye - A Break in Ocular Surface Immunoregulation
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Dec. 12, 2008
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor
Hall
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George Timberlake, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO
Host: TBA
Title: Performing Manual Tasks with Bilateral Macular Scotomas
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Speakers
If you wish to suggest or be an Oxyopia speaker, please contact:
Dr. Dennis Levi
dlevi@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-642-3414
Fax: 510-642-7806
Any basic, clinical, or applied vision topic is suitable.
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Past Oxyopias
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