Calendars / Vision Science Seminars
Seminar Archives: 2006
September
| Thursday | Name |
6Wednesday 5pm Newman Center |
Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD; Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine Becker Chair Inaugural Lecture |
14 |
Peter Lukasiewicz, PhD; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine "How are retinal outputs modulated?" |
21 |
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS; Dean Emeritus, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Vitamin A story: sight and life" |
28 |
Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Professor and Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology; Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, Saint Louis University "Cholesterol-associated dyslipidemia and retinal degeneration: experimental studies and possible therapeutic intervention" |
October
| Thursday | Name |
5 |
Tom Linsenmayer, Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University Medical School "Corneal Epithelial Nuclear Ferritin: Nuclear Transport and Prevention of U.V. and Oxidataive Damage to DNA" |
12 |
Jeff Gidday, PhD, Director, Neurovascular Protection Laboratory; Associate Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Cell Biology & Physiology, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Washington University School of Medicine "Endogenous Neuroprotection in the Retina: Relevance to Ischemia and Glaucoma" |
19 |
Claude Burgoyne, PhD, Senior Scientist and Research Director, Optic Nerve Head Biomechanics Laboratory, Devery Eye Institute "Digital 3D Reconstruction of the Normal and Early Glaucomatous Monkey Optic Nerve Head" |
November
| Date | Name |
Thursday 2 |
The Mildred Trotter Lecture / Paula Tallal |
Monday 6 |
4:00pm — Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Seminars (Special Seminar, Faculty Candidate) — Wei Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. "The first synapse in vision — the photoreceptor synapse and the retinal circuity". |
Thursday 9 |
4:00 P.M. —Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars — Ross Leigh Cagan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine. "Patterning the Fly Eye: What We See". |
Monday 16 |
4:00 P.M. — Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars — Vaibhav Tiwari, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Lions of Illinois Eye Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois. "Molecular Mechanism of HSV-1 Entry Into Ocular Cells". |
Monday 30 |
4:00 P.M. — Maternity Building, Conference Room 725 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Seminars — Steven Kymes, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine. "Aren't eyes part of the body? The apparent disjunct between health and visual health — evidence using preference based measures of quality of life". |
December
| Thursday | Name |
7 |
Patrick Stuart, PhD |
14 |
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January
Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
Dr. George Cioffi, Associate Clinical Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University; Director, Glaucoma Service, Devers Eye Institute; Director, Discoveries in Sight Research Laboratory; Senior Scientist, Legacy Clinical Research & Technology Center; Endowed Chair, E. Michael Van Buskirk, Chair of Ophthalmic Research; Devers Eye Institute, Good Samaritan Foundation; Section Head, Ophthalmology, Legacy Health System - Portland, Oregon "Ischemic Optic Nerve Damage and Glaucoma " |
Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
Dr. Rosario Hernandez, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine "Astrocytes in glaucomatous optic neuropathy, 10 years later" |
February
Thursday, February 2, 2006 |
Dr. Mae Gordon, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine "Prediction Model for Glaucoma: Validation in 2 Continents" |
Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
Dr. J. William Harbour, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Director, Ocular Oncology Service, Washington University School of Medicine "The Rb tumor suppressor as a dynamic regulator of cell cycle and apoptotic decisions" |
Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
Dr. Douglas B. Gould, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine "Genetic and Environmental Influences in Complex Diseases: A Role for Extracellular Matrix in Glaucoma and Hemorrhagic Stroke" |
March
Thursday, March 9, 2006 |
Dr. Susan M. Culican, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine "Evidence for activity-independent toptgraphic specification of retinal projections by Phr1" |
Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
Dr. Paul Sieving, Director, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland "X-linked retinoschisis: A case study in how molecular genetics informs clinical understanding" |
Monday, March 20, 2006 |
Dr. Alecia K. Gross, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas "Rhodopsin: From Atoms to Disease" |
Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
Dr. Roderick Bremner, Senior Scientist and Head, Cell and Molecular Division, Toronto Western Reserach Institute, University Health Network, Toronto Canada "RB and E2F in retinal development and retinoblastoma" |
Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
April
Thursday, April 6, 2006 |
Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, Associate Professor, Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky "The Bizarro World of Angiogenesis" |
Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
Dr. Jeffery Milbrandt, David Clayton Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Medicine and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine "Molecular Insighs into Myelinatin aand Axonal Degeneration" |
Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
Dr. Jeffrey Gidday, Associate Professor, Department of Neuorsurgery, and Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine "Retinal protection from ischemic and glaucomatous injury by preconditioning" |
Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
Dr. Jeff Curnow |
May
Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
Dr. Steven Bassnett |
Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
Dr. Jian Zuo, Associate Member, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis; Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN "Mouse genetics of Retinitis Pigmentosa 1 (RP1)" |
Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou |
Thursday, June 1, 2006 |
Dr. John I Clark |
Thursday, June 16, 2006 |