BAVRD is an annual one-day meeting hosted by the Vision Science graduate program at UC Berkeley, dedicated to fostering community amongst researchers in the San Francisco Bay Area in vision-related fields including neuroscience, ophthalmology, psychology, optics, and computer vision.
Schedule: (Wednesday August 10th, 2011)
8:30 am - 9:00 am: Check-in and Breakfast (at Stanley Hall)
9:00 am - 9:10 am: Welcome and Introduction
9:10 am - 10:10 am: Talk Session I: Anterior Segment
9:10a:Matilda Chan, M.D., Ph.D., UC San Francisco "Role of Macrophage Elastase (MMP12) in Corneal Myeloid Cell Activities Visualized With Time-lapse in vivo Confocal Microscopy"
9:30a:Suzanne Fleiszig, O.D., Ph.D., UC Berkeley
9:50a:Clay Radke, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
10:10 am - 10:30 am: Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 pm: Talk Session II: Retina I
10:30a:Robert Zawadzki, Ph.D., UC Davis
10:50a:Jacque Duncan, M.D., UC San Francisco
11:10a:Alexander Sher, Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz "Retinal Plasticity and Restoration of Function after Photocoagulation"
11:30 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch and poster setup
1:00 pm - 2:20 pm: Talk Session III: Retina II
1:00p:Jan Verweij, UC San Francisco
1:20p:James Long, Ph.D., UC San Francisco "Transmission at the rod-to-rod bipolar synapse in mice lacking phosducin"
1:40p:Alan Horsager, Ph.D., USC "Virally-Delivered Channel rhodopsin-2 Safely and Effectively Restores Visual Function in Multiple Mouse Models of Blindness"
2:00p:Daniel Palanker, Ph.D., Stanford
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm: Break
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm: Talk Session IV: The Brain and Visual Processing
2:40p:Martin Usrey, Ph.D., UC Davis "Attentional modulation of geniculocortical communication"
3:00p:Tirin Moore, Ph.D., Stanford "Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine"
3:20p:Jeremy Wolfe, Ph.D., Harvard "The grass is always greener on the other side of the monitor: Foraging and visual search"
3:40p:Golijeh Golarai, Ph.D., Stanford
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Reception and poster session
Online Registration:
Register online http://vision.berkeley.edu/bavrd/register.html
