Calendars / Vision Science Seminars

Thursday, January 13, 2005

McDonnell Science Building, Cori Auditorium

Dr. Robert L. Hendricks, Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry; Director, Ophthalmlogy and Visual Science Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Immunologic Control of HSV-1 Latency, and Implications for Herpes Keratitis"

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Dr. Victor L. Perez, Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University

"Visualization of Immune Responses in the Eye"

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Dr. Jane Wu, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

"Pre-mRNA splicing and Neurodegeneration"

Thursday, February 3, 2005

Dr. Michael Onken, Research Associate, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington Universtiy School of Medicine

"Id and the Primitive Drive in Uveal Melanoma"

Monday, February 7, 2005

Dr. Vladimir J. Kefalov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

"Where Do Colors Go at Night?  Understanding the Difference Between Retinal Rods and Cones."

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Dr. Richard Libby, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbour Maine

"Using Mouse Genetics to Identify Susceptibility Factors for Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration"

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and Department of Medicine (Division of Dermatology), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"Notch signing in development and disease"

Monday, March 7, 2005

Dr. Robert Hindges, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California

"Molecular Control of Cell Fate and Axon Pathfinding in the Developing Visual System"

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Dr. Anthony V. Nicola, Research Fellow, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Medical Virology Section, NIAID of the NIH, Bethesda, Maryland

"A Novel pH Dependent, Endocytic Pathway for Herpsevirus Entry into Cells"

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Dr. James Chodosh, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology; Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell Biology; Ajdunct Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Molecular Pathogenesis of Eye Infection Research Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

"Host Mechanisms in Adenovirus Keratitis"

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Dr. Rachael Wong, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobioolgy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"Imaging circuit development in the vertebrate retina"

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Dr. Rajendra S. Apte, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology &Visual Sciences, Barnes Retina Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"Eyeballing the Immune System:  Implications for Angiogenesis"

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Dr. Satish K. Srivastava, Professor, Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

"Role of Detoxification Enzymes in Diabetic Complications"

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Dr. Milam Brantley, Jr., Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"The role of GDNF family ligands in retinal development and survival"

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dr. Qing Chang, Research Associate, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"The Biology of Aldo-keto Reductases:  What we learned from the budding yeast"

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Dr. Steven Kymes, Research Associate, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"Quality of Life in People with Keratoconus - Surprising Results from a 'Minor' Disease"

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Dr. Edward Barnett, Assistant Professor, Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

"In Vivo Retinal Uptake of Permeation Peptide Constructs in Rodents and Potential Uses"

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Dr. Sepideh Zareparsi, Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Investigator, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, Michigan

"Gene Expression and Association Studies of Retinal Aging and Age-related Macular Degeneration"

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Dr. Visvanathan Ramamurthy, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

"cGMP, Calcium and Cell Death:  Lessons from Retinal Degenerative Diseases"

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Dr. David C. Beebe, Janet and Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine

"The Cause and Prevention of Nuclear Cataracts"

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Dr. Usha Andley, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

"Regulation of Lens Cytoskeleton by Crystallins"

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Dr. Ana Mendez, Research Associate, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

"Mammalian Genetics to Study Early Visual Signaling"

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Dr. Elaine R. Mardis, Co-Director, Genome Sequencing Center; Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine

"Genomics:  An ever-changing landscape"

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Dr. Thomas A. Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmolgy and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

"Regulation of Cell Death Receptor Expression in the Eye"

CANCELLED

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Dr. Alan Shiels, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmolgy and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

"Binocular Genetics:  tracking genes for eye movement disorders"

CANCELLED

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Dr. Laura Frishman, John and Rebecca Moores Professor; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research.  College of Optometry, University of Houston

"In vivo assessment of retinal function of the mouse using the ERG"

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Dr. Mark Sands, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine

"AAV - mediated ocular gene therapy for lysosomal storage diseases"