[visionlist] 2008 OSA Vision Meeting

[Joseph Carroll]

The 8th annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting
<http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/fvm_2008/index.html> , sponsored this year by
the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, is a low cost,
high quality meeting designed to focus discussion on key issues in vision
science. The meeting will be held at the University of Rochester Medical
Center on October 24, 25, and 26, 2008. Rochester, located in Western New
York State, is an internationally recognized center for vision and imaging
science and provides a scenic and natural setting for a variety of outdoor
activities. The OSA Vision meeting is scheduled to take place directly after
the OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) meeting.
 
As in past years, the Optical Society of America <http://www.osa.org>  will
offer a one-day "free pass" to all OSA members who are pre-registered for
the OSA Vision Meeting. This pass allows OSA Vision Meeting registrants to
also attend the OSA FiO Meeting on Thursday, October 23 (where there will be
additional vision-related sessions, including a special symposium on the
Stiles-Crawford Effect).
 
Meeting Overview:
The OSA Vision Meeting is a low cost, high quality meeting designed to focus
discussion on key issues in vision science. The registration fee will be $75
for students/postdocs and $250 for all others. The fee will increase to $100
for students/postdocs and $300 for all others after the registration
deadline August 31, 2006. The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch,
and coffee breaks for all 3 days. This year¹s meeting will celebrate Brian
Wandell as the 2008 recipient of the Tillyer Award for distinguished service
in the field of vision. The meeting will also include a Festschrift and
banquet in honor of Walter Makous, who will be retiring in 2008.  The Young
Investigator Award, which includes a cash prize, will be given to the
student or post-doc who gives the best presentation at the meeting.
 
The local organizing committee is chaired by David Williams, University of
Rochester, and the program committee is chaired by Alex Wade,
Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute.
 
The main strength of the OSA Vision Meeting is its small size, which allows
for engaging scientific discussion among colleagues. Another advantage of
this format is that there are no parallel sessions, allowing every
participant to attend all of the talks they want to hear. The meeting is
organized around 6 workshops, each with 4 speakers and a format designed to
promote active discussion of key issues in vision science. Each workshop
will end with 30-40 minutes of general discussion of the issues presented.
We encourage all registrants to submit a scientific abstract to the meeting.
Based on their merits as judged by the program committee, twelve of these
abstracts will be allocated to contributed talk sessions and the remainder
will be poster presentations. All of the abstracts accepted for this year's
meeting (including the invited ones) will be published in the online Journal
of Vision <http://www.journalofvision.org> .
 
Scientific Sessions (titles are tentative)
 
Retinopathy and Visual Dysfunction
Moderator: Peter Gouras, Columbia University
 
Fred Fitzke, University College London
³Retinal imaging using the latest AO and OCT techniques and functional
studies in the living human eye to reveal fine structural changes that
accompany loss of visual sensitivity²
 
Yi-Zhong Wang, Retina Foundation of the Southwest
³Early detection/assessment/monitoring of vision loss in AMD and Stargardt
disease²
 
David G. Birch, Retina Foundation of the Southwest
³The role of electroretinography in detecting and following retinal
dystrophies²
 
Peter Coffey, University College London
³Animal models of ARMD and RPE transplant in human patients²
 
Long-term Adaptive Effects in Color Vision
Moderator: Angela Brown, Ohio State University
 
Billy Hammond, University of Georgia
³Compensation for macular pigment: Color appearance and sensitivity
regulation²
 
Jack Werner, University of California-Davis
³What the aging lens can tell us about color constancy²
 
Rhea Eskew, Northeastern University
³Potential mechanisms of long-term adaptation in color vision, and failures
to find evidence for them²
 
Aline Bompas, Cardiff University
³Eye movements participate in color appearance²
 
Color and Motion Processing
Moderator: Karen Dobkins, University of California-San Diego
 
Shin¹ya Nishida, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
³Trajectory integration of color signals for motion deblurring²
 
Jonathan Nassi, Harvard Medical School
³LGN inputs to MT²
 
Declan McKeefry, University of Bradford
³Color in motion revealed by motion after-effects²
 
Brian White, Queen¹s University
³Visually guided movements to color targets²
 
Gene Therapy Approaches to Basic and Clinical Vision Sciences
Moderator: Jay Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Matt Mauck, Medical College of Wisconsin
³Using gene therapy to dissect the circuitry for color vision²
 
Andras Komaromy, University of Pennsylvania
³Restoration of cone function in dog models of rod monochromacy²
 
Ken Greenberg, University of California-Berkeley
³Electrophysiology of channelrhodopsin in rabbit retina²
 
Kate Kolstad, University of California-Berkeley
³Control of neuronal activity with a light-gated glutamate receptor²
 
Between the Eyes and the Cortex: Active and Passive Filtering in the
Geniculate
Moderator: Peter Lennie, University of Rochester
 
Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
³Neural correlates of visual attention and awareness in the human LGN²
 
Geraint Rees, University College London
³The LGN and visual awareness²
 
Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry
³Receptive field dynamics and response gain in visual thalamus²
 
Henry Alitto, University of California-Berkeley
³The influence of spatial attention on visual processing in the Macaque LGN
³
 
Measuring Population Activity in Visual Cortex
Moderator: Alex Pouget, University of Rochester
 
Adam Kohn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
³Neural correlation in V1 and its effect on coding²
 
David Fitzpatrick, Duke University
³The dynamics of V1 population response to changes in direction of stimulus
motion² 
 
Justin Gardner, New York University
³Inferring population responses in human visual cortex with classification
analysis²
 
Serge Dumoulin, Stanford University
³Population receptive field estimates in human visual cortex²
 
Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Walt Makous
Moderator: David Williams, University of Rochester
 
Don MacLeod, University of California-San Diego
Julie Schnapf, University of California-San Francisco
Bill Geisler, The University of Texas-Austin
 

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