[vslist] Provisional Programme for BCOVS/AVA (Defective Vision) Joint Conference

[Sarah J Waugh]

   PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME FOR
                BCOVS/AVA
           JOINT CONFERENCE

 Tuesday 9th July and Wednesday 10th July, 2002.
Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge, UK.

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TUESDAY 9TH JULY

9.30 am   RECEPTION AND GREETING COFFEE

10.30 D L McCulloch: Should Pregnant Women Eat more Fish?  Recent research
 into the role of essential fatty acids in early visual development

11.00 Ff M John, N R Bromham, T R Candy, J M Woodhouse: Steady-state VEP
 and behavioural measures of visual acuity in infants and children with
Down syndrome
11.15 R E Stewart, J M Woodhouse, M Cregg, V Pakeman, Gunter,  L D
 Trojanowska, Parker M, Fraser W I: Relating accuracy of accommodation to
 refractive error and strabismus in children with Down syndrome
11.30 A O Oduntan, M Raliavhegwa, P M Lund: Vision status of children with
 oculocutaneous albinism
11.45 A Sailoganathan, J Siderov, E Osuobeni: Relative letter legibility for
Punjabi optotypes

12.00 - 1.25 pm  LUNCH AND POSTERS
(Poster presenters to be available from 12.30 - 1.25 pm.)

1.30 D J Whitaker: Some thoughts on visual illusions involving orientation
and
 position

2.00  L Diaz-Santana, N Davies, D Lara-Saucedo: Accuracy of wavefront
 measurement and the potential effect of erroneous custom corneal
correction on the modulation transfer function
2.15  H Dietz, M C Cox: On-eye spherical aberration of soft contact lenses
2.30  C M Chisholm, J L Barbur, D F Edgar, A Harlow: The implications of
forward light scatter for visual performance post-excimer laser surgery
2.45 A Sciscio, C C Hull, C G Stephenson, D P S O'Brart, J Marshall: Induced
 irregular astigmatism in hypermetropic PRK and LASIK; a bilateral cohort
study

3.00 - 3.30 pm  COFFEE BREAK

3.30 D B Henson: Super supra-threshold perimetry

4.00 M Pacheco-Cutillas, J L Barbur, D F Edgar: Chromatic and achromatic
loss  of sensitivity in glaucoma
4.15 R S Anderson, M B Zlatkova, E Coulter, S Demirel: Changes in short-
 wavelength resolution acuity with age and defocus in the periphery:
 implications for relative ganglion cell loss
4.30  P Gunvant, I S Joseph, M Baskar, L Vijaya, DC Broadway, R J Watkins:
 Pulsatile ocular blood flow measurements in healthy Asian eyes: reference
 values for an Indian population
4.45  N Hakim-Banan, S E Horgan, C C Hull: Objective predictors of
subjective
 visual function for different age-related cataract morphologies

5.00 - 6.00 pm  WINE AND POSTERS

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7.30 FOR 8.00 PM  CONFERENCE DINNER
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WEDNESDAY 10TH JULY

9.30 am RECEPTION AND GREETING COFFEE

10.30 R S Harwerth: Defective vision from glaucoma: structure-function
 relationships

11.00  R O Beirne, J F J Logan, B Zlatkova, A J Jackson, S J A Rankin, R S
 Anderson, S Demirel: Peripheral resolution for achromatic and SWS gratings
in early glaucoma: implications for selective ganglion cell density loss
11.15 H Radhakrishnan, S Pardhan, R I Calver, D J O'Leary: Effect of defocus
on
 contrast sensitivity in myopes and non-myopes
11.30 A Vera-Diaz, P V McGraw, N C Strang, D Whitaker: Is visual efficiency
 reduced in myopic eyes?
11.45  A Simmers, P J Bex, R F Hess: Perceived blur in amblyopia

12.00 - 1.25 pm  LUNCH AND POSTERS
(Poster presenters to be available from 12.30 - 1.25 pm.)

1.30 M E Boulton: Do age-related changes in the retina contribute to age-
related macular degeneration?

2.00  P Davda, M Dovey,  G Jeffery, G Baker: Distribution of rod bipolar
cells  in the retina of the albino rat
2.15 R J Lucas, R H Douglas, R G Foster: A novel ocular photopigment capable
of
 driving pupillary constriction in mice
2.30 J A Potter, N C Strang, D Whitaker: Temporal integration of astigmatic
blur information
2.45 S Stanger, L S Gray, M Mon-Williams: Oculomotor adaptations produced by
 virtual reality environments

3.00 - 3.30 pm  COFFEE BREAK

3.30 G S Rubin: Reading without a fovea

4.00 A McCarthy, M Galton, G T Plant: Mindsight: pathological completion in
a
 case of occipital damage without neglect
4.15 M J Wright, L Shaw: Contrast sensitivity and copy drawing performance
in
 patients with cortical lesions: high or low level deficit?
4.30 V Anand, D B Elliott: Postural stability changes in elderly subjects
due  to disruption of the somatosensory and vestibular system inputs,
refractive blur and dual tasking
4.45 J P Harris, E A Atkinson, M S Fowler: Errors in visual perception of
size  in left hemi-Parkinson's disease

5.00 pm CLOSING REMARKS

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PROVISIONAL POSTER PROGRAMME: POSTERS MAY BE DISPLAYED FOR BOTH DAYS

1. R Patel, S Pardhan, A Hobbiss, J Gilchrist: Habitual binocular
performance  and vision-related quality of life
2. L S Gray, D Siedel, G Heron: Accommodation responses in late-onset myopia
are improved by spatiotopic stimulation
3. E Garamendi, K Pesudovs, D B Elliott, S Gelsthorpe, J Burr: The
development of  "The Quality of Life Impact of Refractive
 Correction (QIRC) Questionnaire"
4. A Mamoojee, L Diaz-Santana: Does comeal polarisation vary with corneal
astigmatism?
5. S Sukumar, B Shantha: Ganzfeld changes in short wavelength automated
perimetry.
6. S Sukumar, B Shantha, M Baskar, L Vijaya: Ability of frequency doubling
perimetry and scanning laser polarimetry and
 scanning laser polarimetry to detect ocular hypertension and POAG in an
Indian population
7. L S Kim, J M Wild: Variability of the threshold response as a function of
stimulus size in the central and peripheral visual field
8. I Cunningham, P C Knox, F Rowe: Modified attentional fields in ageing
9. J Davidson, P C Knox: The effect of ageing on the range of ocular
movements
10. M Kavasakali, M Bloj, B Winn: Oblique saccades in visually normal human
observers
11. J F McClelland, K J Saunders, A J Jackson:  The changing profile of
children attending a regional specialist school for the
 visually impaired in Northern Ireland
12. S J Harrison, D R T Keeble: Within-texture alignment improves human
texture segmentation
13. H AI-Farhan, C C Hull, R Hameed, S E Horgan, E G Woodward: Digital
irnaging system for assessing posterior capsular
 opacification: a preliminary report
14. S Grant, W Waller, A Bhalla, C Kennard: Retinal projections to the
thalamus in albino frogs
15. P Gunvant, D Broadway, R Watkins: Does optic disc topography vary during
office hours?
16. P Gunvant, D C Broadway, R J Watkins: Effects of ethnic origin on
pulsatile ocular blood flow
17. M Vianya, W A Douthwaite, D Elliott: The use of critical tlicker
frequency  as a potential vision test in cataract surgery
18. C M Chisholm, J L Barbur, D F Edgar, A Harlow: The Contrast Acuity
Assessment (CAA) test for quantifying reduced visual
 performance post-reftactive surgery
19. G B Arden, N Wood, B Fiori, J E Wolf, C H Hogg, T Berninger, S Perry, L
Perry: Computer colour tests for the major causes of
 blindness using an inexpensive PC system
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For further information on registration: contact June Petrie (01245) 493 131
ext 3168 or email j.h.petrie@apu.ac.uk or see
www.apu.ac.uk/conferences/index.shtml