Spring 2007
Wednesday 17th January at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Functional and structural imaging of the human visual system at Cardiff: from ocular shape in myopia to cortical oscillations in the visual motion system.”
Professor Krish Singh
Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Host: Dr Chris Purslow
Wednesday 24th January at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“In the blink of an eye”
Dr Jennifer Craig
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Auckland
Host: Dr Paul Murphy
Wednesday 7th February at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
"In vivo and in vitro studies of the retinal pigment epithelium"
Professor John Lawrenson
Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University
Host: Dr Tom Margrain
Wednesday 14th February at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“The retinal pigment epithelium: a plastic structure even in the mature retina”
Dr Glen Jeffery
Department of Visual Science, Institute of Ophthalmology
Host: Mr James Morgan
Wednesday 21st February at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Dynamical properties of proteins under stress: alpha-crystallins (eye lens proteins) and other small heat shock proteins”
Dr Stephanie Finet
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Host: Tim Wess
Wednesday 28th February at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Visual route navigation in free flying pigeons”
Professor Tim Guilford
Animal Behaviour Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Host: Jon Erichsen
Wednesday 7th March at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“The role of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in retinal development and disease”
Professor Tom Cotter
Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork
Host: Mike Wride
Wednesday 14th March at 1.00 pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Lebers hereditary optic neuropathy…looking beyond mitochondria”
Professor Patrick Chinnery
Institute of Human Genetics; University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Host: Dr Marcella Vortruba
Wednesday 21st March at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Ocular surface reconstruction using cultivated cell systems”
Dr Tsutomu Inatomi
Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Mecicine
Host: Dr Andrew Quantock
Wednesday 28th March at 11:00pm - Room 0.21 (Pharmacy Lecture Theatre) Redwood Building
“Neurochemical interactions linking pressure to ganglion cell death in glaucoma”
Dr Claire H Mitchell
Research Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday 28th March at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Pattern Dystrophy”
Miss Susie Downes
The Oxford Eye Hospital
Host: Dr Marcella Vortruba
Tuesday 17th April at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Preventing Falls in the Elderly Visually Impaired”
Gordon Sanderson
Senior Lecturer, Ophthalmology Section, Otago Medical School, New Zealand
Host: Dr Jon Erichsen
Wednesday 25th April at 1:00pm - Lecture Theatre 2.60C Redwood Building
“Animal camouflage through animal eyes”
Professor Innes Cuthill
School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University
Host: Dr Jon Erichsen