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Updated: Tue, Nov 17, 2009
Vision Research Seminar Series - Guest Speakers
Date Upcoming Speakers
December 9, 2009
MRB III
4:10pm
Christopher L. Moore
CICN/VBI

Cortical Representation, Dynamics and Perception
January 27, 2010 Dan Javitt
CICN/VBI
February 24, 2010 TBA
May 4, 2010 John Reynolds
CICN/VBI
Date Previous Speakers
May 20, 2009 Mary M. Hayhoe
Professor of Psychology
Center for Perceptual Systems
University of Texas Austin

What guides visual attention and working memory
in natural environments
?
  
March 16, 2009 Michael Goldberg, MD
David Mahoney Professor of
Brain and Behavior in the Departments of
Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Ophthalmology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons


On the agonosticism of spikes: saccades, attention
and priority in the parietal cortex
.
Oct. 15, 2008
Andrew Hollingworth, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
The University of Iowa

The Role of Visual Working Memory in
Establishing Object Correspondence across
Saccades and Brief Occlusion
Oct. 3, 2008
Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Rochester

What does prefrontal cortex "know" about
visual motion used in discrimination tasks?
More Previous Guest Speakers




Vision Training Seminars 2009 - 2010
All seminars will be held from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Langford - MRB IV - Room 11455


Date Speaker
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 Jason Dapper
Postdoctoral Fellow - Calkins Lab

"Genetics of transport deficits in glaucoma: A proposal”
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 Ash Jayagopal
Research Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Novel Pathways Regulating Uveal Melanoma Behavior
Friday, Nov 13, 2009
Min S. Chang
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt Eye Institute

Seminar title: From Cornea to Colon: an update
Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Stephanie Sims
Research Fellow - Ophthalmology
Friday, Jan. 8, 2010
Anna Roe, PhD
Psychology Dept.
Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
Isabel Gauthier, PhD
Psychology Dept.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Kevin Schey, PhD
Biochemistry Dept.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Josh Barnett
Friday, May 14, 2010
ARVO & VSS Presentations
June , 2010 No Seminar
July 2010 No Seminar
August 2010 No Seminar



Neuroscience "Brown Bag" Seminar Series Fall 2009
Room 316 Wilson Hall (unless otherwise indicated)
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Date Speaker
Sept. 3 Robert Friedman, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology

Cortical Topography of Tactile Motion in Primates
Sept. 10 Zheng Wang, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
Roe Lab

Modeling neural-hemodynamics in V1 of
awake macaques: implications for parallel regulation
of neurovascular coupling
Sept. 17 Gopathy Purushothaman, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab

Temporal dynamics of detection and discrimination
in the primary visual cortex
Sept. 24 Jascha Swisher, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Tong Lab

High-field, high-resolution fMRI of human visual cortex
Oct. 1 David Godlove
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab

The Role of Reward in Eliciting Short-Latency
Express Saccades
Oct. 8 René Marois
Dept. of Psychology

On the neural basis of attentional control, awareness
and Vanderbilt’s legacy
Oct. 15 Tomas Knapen
Centre d'Attention et Vision
Laboratoire Pyschologie de la Perception
Université Paris Descartes

Bistable perception engages multiple
decision-making mechanisms
Oct. 22 No Seminar
SFN
Oct. 29 Roan Marion
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab

The organization of pulvinar and V1 inputs to V2
Nov. 5 Jeremiah Cohen
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab

Cooperation and competition among frontal
eye field neurons during visual target selection
Nov. 12 Whitney Cleghorn
Dept. of Pharmacology
Gurevich Lab

Caspase Cleavage of Arrestin1 in Photoreceptor Apoptosis
Nov. 19 Jeff Schall, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology

Recent tests of the premotor theory of attention
Nov. 26 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 3 Omar Gharbawie, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Kaas Lab
Dec. 10 Jon Kaas, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Dec. 17 Hisashi Tanigawa, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Roe Lab



Vanderbilt Eye Institute Academic Seminar Series 2009-2010
Elliot Conference Room - 8007 Medical Center East - North Tower
This seminar is approved for 1 continuing medical education credit
Date Speaker
Friday, September 4, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Milam Brantley, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Washington University School of Medicine

"Of Mice, Men, and Retinal Degeneration"
Friday, September 18, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Paul Sieving, MD/PhD
Director of the National Eye Institute

Translational Research: Ophthalmic Genetics

Department of Psychology Colloquium Series

Date Speaker
TBA TBA