Spring 2021 Seminar Series
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2021 – VIA ZOOM
Walsh Research Travel Award Recipients
- Mengguo Jing (Fall 2019 Walsh Research Travel Award; Kirkorian Lab, Human Development & Family Studies)
The effect of comprehensibility on saliency-based gaze prediction for children and adults watching Sesame Street - Steven Mayerl (Spring 2020 Walsh Research Travel Award; David Gamm Lab, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Assessing hPSC-derived retinal neuron synapse formation in vitro via monosynaptic retrograde tracing
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 – VIA ZOOM
- Sushmita Roy, PhD, Assoc. Prof. (Biostatistics & Medical Informatics; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery)
Deciphering transcriptional regulatory programs of cell identity in human retinal organoids - Natascha Merten, PhD (Spring 2020 Walsh Research Travel Award; Karen Cruickshanks Lab, Population Health Sciences)
Macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer as a marker of cognitive and sensory function in midlife
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021 – VIA ZOOM
- Michael Landowski, PhD (Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant; Ikeda Lab, Medical Genetics)
A role of TMEM135 in retinal glucose and lipid metabolism - Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD, DECVO, DACVO, Asst. Prof., (Surgical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences)
PGC1a deficiency affects retinal function with aging
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021 – VIA ZOOM
- Tim Rogers, PhD, Professor (Psychology)
Disentangling visual representations in deep neural networks - Haley Vlach, PhD, Assoc. Professor (Educational Psychology)
Visual attention dynamics of the spacing effect in children’s STEM learning
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 – VIA ZOOM
- Kazuya Oikawa, DVM (Kenzi Valentyn Vision Research Grant; McLellan Lab, Surgical Sciences; DOVS)
Optic nerve head neuroinflammation in a spontaneous large animal model of glaucoma - Seth Eaton, VMD, DACVO, Clinical Asst. Prof., (Surgical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine)
From nevus to neoplasm: Melanocytic ocular disease in animals