The Alfred W. Bressler Vision Science Symposium, The Pisart Seminar
October 5, 2019
Honoring Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, 2019 Alfred W. Bressler Prize Winner and Tiffany Schmidt, PhD, 2019 Pisart Award Winner
Date: Saturday, October 5, 2019
Time: 8:30 am
Location: The University Club of New York, One West 54th Street (at 5th Ave.), New York, NY 10019
For more information, please contact Gordon Rovins at awards@lighthouseguild.org or 212-769-7801.
Program
(Presenters in order of appearance)
Pisart Seminar
Paul Gamlin, PhD
Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells in Health and Disease
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurobiology, Psychology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kevin Park, PhD
Cellular and Molecular Factors That Regulate Reconnection of Damaged Retinal Ganglion Cells
Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Tiffany Schmidt, PhD, 2018 Pisart Award Recipient
Illuminating Visual Circuits
Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University
Bressler Vision Science Symposium
Understanding and Preserving Photoreceptor Function
John Flannery, PhD
Developing Gene Therapies to Preserve Cone Photoreceptors
Professor of Optometry and Vision Science University of California Berkeley School of Optometry, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Associate Director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Jeannie Chen, PhD
Blinding Disorders Caused by Defects in Phototransduction
Professor, Department of Cell & Neurobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
Thomas Ferguson, PhD
Better Vision Through Healthy (Self)-Eating
Professor, John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, 2018 Bressler Prize Recipient
Mechanisms Mediating the Function of Cone Photoreceptors and Daytime Vision
Professor, John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
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