Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD)

The Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD) is a one-day research conference devoted to bringing the vision research community of the Bay Area together in order to present and to discuss new and exciting findings in the fields of ophthalmology, optometry, biology, neuroscience, visual psychophysics, and computer vision. What distinguishes BAVRD from other conferences is that it is primarily organized and run by graduate students from the Vision Science Graduate Group at the University of California, Berkeley. This year marks the 34th annual BAVRD.

Keynote Speaker: Jacob Yates

Featuring Speakers: Aparna Lakkaraju, Jay Stewart, Daisy Shu, Sunwoo Kwon, Xiaomo Chen, Yubei Chen.

Registration

Join us for our one day hybrid conference. Registration includes access to Zoom links for our morning speakers, and invitations to the afternoon in-person poster sessions and evening wine reception.

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Submit an Abstract

Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to showcase their work in an afternoon poster session following the main talks. In addition, six abstracts will be selected for virtual lightning talks during the event. All applicants are expected to be able to attend on the day of the event in person on the Berkeley campus.

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Information for Presenters

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, we are striving to maximize communication across disciplines. To do this, we need your help. We ask that you try to minimize the amount of jargon and mathematics that could be potentially confusing to individuals outside your discipline, and provide clear and intuitive explanations for concepts.

Lighting Talks

Lightning talks are 5 minutes long, followed by a few minutes of questions from the audience.

Posters

Posters are expected to be 34 inches x 53 inches in landscape format. Tape will be provided onsite. At least one author is expected to present the poster during the session. Use large fonts, and minimal text. Text on posters should be comfortable to read at 5 feet away.

Location

This year's Bay Area Vision Research Day will be a one-day event with lectures on Zoom and an in-person poster session and reception at the International House.

The morning portion of the conference will take place virtually via Zoom. Our in-person poster session and wine reception will take place at Interernational House on the UC Berkeley Campus. Click below for the Google Maps location.

Where to Park for I-House Where to Enter I-House

Zoom Links

Click the button below for the link to the Zoom Meeting:

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Featured Speakers and Abstracts

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Schedule

Time	Agenda	Speaker
8:00 - 1:40	Virtual Speakers & Lightning Talks
8:00 - 8:05	Sign in / Log in
8:05 - 8:10	Introduction
8:15 - 8:40	Speaker 1	Daisy Shu (Harvard) "Dimethyl Fumarate Suppresses Inflammation and Metabolic Rewiring of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium"
8:45 - 9:10	Speaker 2	Jay Stewart (UCSF) “Aqueous Transcriptome Analysis in the Conversion from Dry to Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration”
9:15 - 9:40	Speaker 3	Sunwoo Kwon (UC Berkeley) "Dissociation Between Perception and Action: Unilateral V1-Stroke and its Impact on Predictive Eye Movements”
9:45 - 10:10	Speaker 4	Aparna Lakkaraju (UCSF) “Ceramide as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Macular Degenerations”
10:15 - 10:25	Lightning Talk 1	Manoj Mohan Kulkarni "The Rod Pathway Drives Aberrant Ganglion Cell Activity in the RD10 Retina"
10:25 - 10:35	Lightning Talk 2	Ananya Datta "Contact Lens Induced Corneal Parainflammation Involving Ly6G+ Cell Infiltration Requires IL-17A and γδ T Cells"
10:35 - 10:45	Lightning Talk 3	Timothy Day (DnaLITE Inc.) "Science to Entrepreneurship in the Gene Therapy Field"
10:45- 11:00	Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:55	Keynote Speaker	Jacob Yates (UC Berkeley) “Neural Mechanisms of Active Visual Processing”
12:00 - 12:25	Speaker 5	Xiaomo Chen (UC Davis) "Neural Circuits for Cognitive Control in the Primate Brain"
12:30 - 12:55	Speaker 6	Yubei Chen (Meta AI) “Seeking for the Principles of Unsupervised Representation Learning”
1:00 - 1:10	Lightning Talk 4	Hannah Doyle "Boosting 2-Photon Vision with Adaptive Optics"
1:10 - 1:20	Lightning Talk 5	So Goto "Gene Expression Signatures of Contact Lens-Induced Myopia in Guinea Pig Retinal Pigment Epithelium"
1:20 - 1:30	Lightning Talk 6	Chris Kymn "Learning Embeddings for Sparse Visual Features"
1:30 - 1:35	Ending Message
1:40 - 3:00	Break
3:00 - 3:30	Check in at I-House
3:30 - 5:00	Poster Session
5:00 - 6:30	Wine Reception

Sponsors

BAVRD would like to thank the following sponsors for their support.