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Updated: Thu, Jun 5, 2008
Vision Research Seminar Series - Guest Speakers
Date Upcoming Speakers
TBA TBA
Date Previous Speakers
June 3, 2008 Jeremy M. Wolfe
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Visual Attention Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Cambridge, MA

Condillac’s Chateau to Consourse B: Adventures in Visual Attention
Jan. 30, 2008 Julia Martinez Trujillo
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology
McGill University.

Mechanisms of Attentional Modulation of Single Cell
Responses in Visual Cortex
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Dec. 3, 2007
Anne K. Churchland
University of Washington
Physiology & Biophysics

Tough Choices: Decision-making with more
than two alternatives
Nov. 28, 2007 Melanie Wilke
NIMH, UCNI

The role of the subcortical nuclei in visual processing and awareness.
Oct. 1, 2007
Nicole Rust
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Mechanisms underlying motion pattern
invariance in area MT
April 23, 2007 Martin Pare
Departments of Physiology and Psychology
Queen's University

Saccade target selection by synchrony
between and within sensory-motor neuronal populations

April 4, 2007
Xiao-Jing Wang
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine

A Recurrent Circuit Mechanism of Stochastic
Decision Making
More Previous Guest Speakers




Vision Training Seminars 2007 - 2008
All seminars will be held from 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Elliot Conference Room (8th Floor, Medical Center East)

Date Speaker
Friday, Sept. 14, 2007 Min Chang
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt Eye Institute

Regulation of ocular epithelial cell morphology
and function
Friday, Oct. 12, 2007 Derek Claxton
3rd year Graduate Student

Structure of a model substrate bound to the
lens chaperone
Friday, Nov. 9, 2007
Rebecca Sappington
Postdoc - Calkins Lab

Pressure-induced death of retinal ganglion
cells: Contributions of TRPV1 and calcium
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
Christine Collins
Ash Jayagopal
- 3rd year Graduate Student

Mapping brain connections with quantum dots
Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 John G Kuchtey, Ph.D.
Research Instructor
Vanderbilt Eye Institute

Investigation of ANGPTL7 as a Potential Glaucoma Disease Protein
Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 Fang Lin
Pharmacology

G Protein Signaling in Zebrafish Embryogenesis
Friday, March 14, 2008 Melanie Bernard
1st year Graduate Student

Synchronous activity in cat visual cortex signals
contours in natural images
Friday, April 11, 2008 Bih-Hwa Shieh
Ophthalmology

Regulation of drosophila visual signaling by
protein phosphatase 2A.
Friday, May 16, 2008 ARVO and Vision Science Society
Post Presentations

National ARVO meeting: April 27 - May 1.
VSS meeting: May 9-14.
June , 2008 No Seminar
July 2008 No Seminar
August 2008 No Seminar



Neuroscience "Brown Bag" Seminar Series Fall 2008
Room 316 Wilson Hall (unless otherwise indicated)
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Date Speaker
September 4 Erik Emeric
Schall Lab
September 11 Robert Friedman, Ph.D
Roe Lab
September 18 Joseph Neimat, M.D.
Vanderbilt Medical Center, Neurological Surgery
September 25 Anna Roe, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
October 2 Gopathy Purushothaman, Ph.D
Casagrande Lab
October 9 Hisashi Tanigawa, Ph.D
Roe Lab
October 16 Leslie Dowell
Wallace Lab
October 23 Peiyan Wong
Kaas Lab
October 30 Limin Chen
Dept. of Imaging Sciences
November 6 Jeremiah Cohen
Schall Lab
November 13 Carissa Cascio, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychiatry
November 20 Vivek Khatri, Ph.D
Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Polley Lab
November 27 No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4 Mary Baldwin
Kaas Lab
December 11 Omar Gharbawie, Ph.D
Kaas Lab



Vanderbilt Eye Institute Academic Seminar Series 2008-2009
Elliot Conference Room - 8007 Medical Center East - North Tower • 5:00 p.m.
This seminar is approved for 1 continuing medical education credit
Date Speaker
TBA
TBA

Department of Psychology Colloquium Series

Date Speaker
TBA TBA