ANS 2009 Satellite Meeting
ACEVS 2009 | Vision: From Photoreceptors to Behaviour
Saturday, 31 January 2009
INTRODUCTION
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science (ACEVS) will host a National Vision Conference as a satellite to the 29th ANS meeting in Canberra. This will be a full day program of invited speakers, aiming to bring you cutting edge visual science from members of the Centre as well as from key international figures.
The days' proceedings will cover 4 major themes:
1. Phototransduction, Retina and Retinal Processing
2. The Visual Brain
3. Development and Degeneration of the Retina
4. Visual Function and Behaviour
Guest speakers include:
Dennis Dacey (University of Washington, Seattle),
Dario Ringach (University of California, Los Angeles),
Brian Link (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), and
David Burr (Instituto di Neuroscienze del CNR and Università di Firenze ).
Please click here to download the conference program and abstracts.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:50 – 9.00 OPENING
9:00 – 10:30 Retina and Retinal Processing Chair: Bill Levick
9:00 – 9:50 Dennis Dacey: Building a pathway for pure color: from red, green and blue cones to blue-yellow ganglion cells
9:50 – 10:10 Trevor Lamb : Responses of human cones, rods, and rod bipolar cells measured using the ERG
10:10 – 10:30 David Vaney: Excitation and inhibition in the retina
10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA
11:00 – 12:30 The Visual Brain Chair: Bogdan Dreher
11:00 – 11:50 Dario Ringach: Neuronal selectivity and local map structure in visual cortex
11:50 – 12:10 Michael Ibbotson : Primary visual cortex: adapting to your neighbours
12:10 – 12:30 Paul Martin: Colour vision and colour blindness in primates
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 Development and Degeneration of the Retina Chair: Keely Bumsted O'Brien
1:30 – 2:20 Brian Link: Cell behaviors and signal integration during retinal neurogenesis
2:20 – 2:40 Jan Provis : Development and degeneration of the macula
2:40 – 3:00 Jonathan Stone : Stabilising photoreceptors: four approaches
3:00 – 3:30 AFTERNOON TEA
3:30 – 5:20 Visual Function and Behaviour Chair: Jochen Zeil
3:30 – 4:20 David Burr: Keeping vision stable
4:20 – 4:40 Colin Clifford: Orientation-selective contextual modulation in human visual cortex
4:40 – 5:00 Jan Hemmi: Di- and tri-chromatic colour vision in marsupials photoreceptors and behaviour
5.00 – 5.20 Mandyam Srinivasan: From photoreceptors to behaviour in birds and bees
5:20 – 5:30 CLOSING
DATE & VENUE
The conference will be held on Saturday, 31 January 2009. The venue will be the Ian Wark Theatre of the heritage-listed Shine Dome - home of the Australian Academy of Science - offering delegates armchair comfort and first class facilities http://www.science.org.au/dome/hire.htm .
CONFERENCE DINNER
A dinner for registrants and their guests will be held on the evening of the meeting, at Rydges Lakeside Hotel, London Circuit, Canberra, commencing at 7.00PM. The cost of Dinner is $100 per person.
REGISTRATION
The registration fee is $50 for all attendees. The registration fee includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on 31 January 2009. Please register before 15 January 2009. To register online for the Conference and for the Dinner, please click the appropriate button below. An automatic GST Tax invoice will be issued when you register online.
CANCELLATION
Cancellation must be advised in writing to adnan.muhammad@anu.edu.au. An administrative fee of $50 will apply to cancellations of dinner received before 15 January 2009. No refunds will be made after that date. Please note that the conference registration fee of $50 is non-refundable.
