September 25, 2009   

JoAnne Wood, PhD, Professor, Queensland University of Technology-Australia

Title: “Vision and Driving Studies Under Day and Night-time Conditions”

October 9, 2009          

Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, Assistant Professor, Washington University; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Title: Cone Visual Cycle in the Vertebrate Retina

November 20, 2009

Mark Petrash, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Research Department of Ophthalmology; Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute; University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center

Title: “Diabetic Eye Disease”

December 4, 2009      

Mark Changizi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science;  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Title: How to Harness an Ape for Language and Music

January 29, 2010         

Christine Wildsoet, PhD, Professor, Dept of Vision Science and Optometry University of California, Berkeley

Topic: Refractive Development and Myopia

February 12, 2010      

Daniel Oprian, PhD, Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry Brandeis University

Title: Structure of Rhodopsin: Progress Toward an Activated Complex

March 19, 2010          

Stephanie Hagstrom, PhD, Associate Staff, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Title: The Role of Tulp1 in Photoreceptor Protein Trafficking

April 9, 2010              

Bob Sekuler, PhD,  Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Title: The Courtship of Vision and Short-Term Memory

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held on Friday at NOON

in the Sylvia Worrell Conference Center, first floor, Worrell Building 924 South 18^th Street.