Tuesday, January 10, 2017 – WIMR conference room 7001A
Visual Cognitive Disorders
- Ari Rosenberg, PhD (Neuroscience)
A computational perspective on altered visual cognition in autism - Yuri Saalmann, PhD (Psychology)
Thalamic dysfunction in cognitive control disorders
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Ocular Biology/Pathology in the Lens and Cornea
- Anne Griep, PhD (Cell and Regenerative Biology)
Factors regulating cell structure and tissue organization in the lens - Sakae Ikeda, DVM (Medical Genetics)
Abnormal cell proliferation and neovascularization in the cornea
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571
Mitochondrial Dynamics
- Divya Sinha, PhD (Waisman Center, Gamm lab)
Assessing mitochondrial integrity and function in human induced pluripotent stem cell-‐derived RPE - Wei-‐Hua Lee, PhD (Medical Genetics, Ikeda lab; Walsh Research Travel Award recipient)
Mouse Tmem135 mutation reveals a mechanism involving mitochondrial dynamics that leads to age-‐dependent retinal pathologies
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Canine Spontaneous Ocular Disorders and Parallel Human Diseases
- Leandro Teixeira, DVM, MSc, ACVP (Director, COPLOW; Pathobiological Sciences)
Chronic optic nerve axon loss and retinal atrophy in primary myelin disorders:
What can a canine model tell us about monitoring MS progression by OCT? - Gillian Shaw, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVP (COPLOW; Pathobiological Sciences)
Pleomorphic iridociliary adenocarcinomas in dogs
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 – WIMR II conference room 3571
Instrumentation Tools: Function and Composition of the Retina
- James Ver Hoeve, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Electrophysiology of vision: Role in novel drug development - Carol Hirschmugl, PhD (Physics, UW-‐Milwaukee)
Oxidative stress in diabetic retinopathy: imaging reveals histopathology
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