[visionlist] Pupil Informatics - call for abstracts

[Rodriguez-Carmona, Marisa]

PUPIL INFORMATICS:  Pupil Response Mechanisms, Visual Performance &
Clinical Applications 

  

Friday 19th September 

City University, London, United Kingdom 

  

SYMPOSIUM: 

*           Review of pupil response mechanisms 

*           Pupil studies in relation to retinal degenerations that
cause loss of photoreceptors   

*           Melanopsin and photoreceptor interactions as reflected in
the pupil response   

*           Mesopic vision, wavefront-guided refractive surgery & visual
performance   

*           Laboratory visits   

*           Symposium dinner 

Symposium organisers: 

JL Barbur & M Rodriguez-Carmona (City University, London) 

B Gilmartin & JSW Wolffsohn (Aston University, Birmingham)    

K Ukai (Waseda University, Tokyo). 

  

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 

Ophthalmologists, medical and psychology students, optometrists,
occupational health professionals, vision scientists. The symposium will
cover pupil studies in relation to photoreceptor interactions, retinal
photoreceptor transplant work, mesopic vision and corneal refractive
surgery.   

  

SYMPOSIUM DETAILS: 

This is an informal event aimed at discussing the latest research
findings in a number of diverse areas that involve the informatics of
the pupil. The latter is often used to describe the integration of
physics, mathematics, computing and engineering techniques into
neuroscience.  Pupil investigations combine diverse techniques and the
measurement of pupil responses have been extended recently to study the
role of melanopsin in vision, photoreceptor interactions, the factors
that limit visual performance in the mesopic range (in relation to
aberrations and corneal refractive surgery), the function of subcortical
pathways and the monitoring of photoreceptor stem cell therapy in
retinal cell transplantation studies. 

  

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 

We welcome contributions on any of these topics either in the form of
short (~ 15 minutes) oral presentations or posters (up to 1 x 1m).
Please submit formal abstracts (not exceeding 300 words) to Charlotte
Hodge ( Charlotte.Hodge.1 at city.ac.uk
<mailto:Charlotte.Hodge.1 at city.ac.uk> ) by 31 August. You will also need
to register for the meeting by completing and returning the registration
form. 

  

MORE INFORMATION: 

Location, travel accommodation information and symposium registration
form can be found via links from: 

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

_________________________________________

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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