Seeing Connections

The symposium will consist of presentations focusing on the function and structure of the visual pathway from photoreception to perception. The meeting will be held in the Vesalian lecture theatre in the Anderson-Stuart Building at the University of Sydney.  Directions to the lecture theatre will be posted at the main entrance to the building on Eastern Ave.

Program:

8.15-9.00    Registration (Anderson-Stuart Common Room)

9-9.10 Opening (Dr Dario Protti)

Session 1    Chair Dr Dario Protti

9.10-9.40     Trevor Lamb (JCSMR, ANU)

"Son of a bleach:  Recovery of visual sensitivity in human retinal bipolar

cells following intense illumination"

9.40-10.10   Shaun Collin (Vision, Touch and Hearing, UQ)

“Insights into primitive behaviour: photoreception in lampreys and lungfish".

10.10-10.40 Peter Buzas (National Vision Research Institute)

"Receptive field structure and colour opponency in the primate visual

pathway"

10.40-11.00          Tea:  Anderson-Stuart common room/courtyard

Session 2    Chair Dr Atomu Sawatari

11.00-11.30 Michael Ibbotson (RSBS, ANU)

“Contrast adaptation and its relationship with cortical orientation maps in primary visual cortex”

11.30-12.00  Bogdan Dreher (Anatomy, University of Sydney)

“Dynamic nature of the simple/complex distinction in striate cortex”

12.00-12.30 Louis Toth (Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University)

"Why does the brain need functional segregation?"

12.30- 1.00  Samuel Solomon (Physiology, Oxford University)

“Parallel representations of image contrast in the early visual system”

1.00-2.15    Lunch: Nicholson Museum, South wing, Main Quadrangle

Plenary       Introduction Dr Catherine Leamey

2.15-3.15     Mriganka Sur (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

“Plasticity and Dynamics of Visual Cortex Networks”

Session 3    Chair Dr Samuel Solomon

3.15-3.45 T.R. Vidyasagar (Optometry, University of Melbourne)

"Functional connectivity in the dorsal cortical stream of the macaque visual system”

3.45-4.00     Tea break (Anderson-Stuart common room/courtyard)

4.00-4.30     Marcello Rosa (Physiology, Monash University)

"Scaling of corticocortical connectivity in brain size

evolution”

4.30-5.00     Atomu Sawatari (Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)

"Views and Other Curiousities:  The Role of the Primate Hippocampus in

Navigation"

5.00            Close (Dr Catherine Leamey)