[visionlist] Symposium: Coloured Filters in the Eye, 17-18 Nov, London.

[Rodriguez-Carmona, Marisa]

Dear All, 

We are organising a course / symposium on "Coloured filters in the eye".
I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention to anyone
who would be interested in attending.

Thanks, 
Marisa 

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COLOURED FILTERS IN THE EYE:  protective functions and effects on visual
performance with emphasis on colour vision

 

17 & 18 November

City University, London, United Kingdom.

 


 


SYMPOSIUM:


 

Day 1

*         Review of pre-receptor filters and measurement techniques

*         Macular pigment in relation to colour vision

*         Aging of the lens and its effects on colour vision

*         Macular pigment in relation to mesopic vision, scattered light
and visual acuity

 

Day 2 

*         Genetic factors in MP and ARMD

*         Macular pigment / supplementation in relation to degenerative
diseases of the eye

*         Laboratory visits and demonstration of MP and short wavelength
lens absorption measurement techniques

 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

 

Ophthalmologists, medical and psychology students, optometrists,
occupational health professionals, artists / painters/ dyers, vision
scientists, industrial colour measurement & reproduction specialists,
IOL and carotenoids manufacturers, nutritionists 

 

 

SPEAKERS:

 

John Barbur, Richard Bone,  Tos Berendschot, Nigel Davies, Billy
Hammond, Chris Hammond, Melissa Liew, John Marshall, John Mellerio, Jack
Moreland, Tony Robson, Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona, Max Snodderly, Meike
Treischmann, Dirk Van Norren, Robert Weale. 

 

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc 

If you have any further questions about any aspect of the symposium,
please feel free to get in touch with me. 

Marisa 

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Marisa Rodriguez-Carmona, MSci, PhD

City University, Applied Vision Research Centre,

The Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Vision Science

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

Tel. 0207 040 0262

http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc/

 

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