"A Lifetime of Vision" Symposium Honoring Vivien Casagrande
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2016 · Education
Recorded at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Friday, November 18, 2016 This symposium honors the lifetime work of Dr. Vivien A. Casagrande, PhD, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University; Kennedy Center Investigator and Senior Fellow; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Association of Anatomists; Recipient, Vanderbilt Chancellor's Award for Research 2013 Speakers included: Ian Macara, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Louise McGavock Chair, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, “Molecular Mechanisms of Visual Cortical Plasticity” Paul Martin, Ph.D., Clinical Ophthalmology & Eye Health, Central Clinical SchoolSave Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Australia Jon Kaas, Ph.D., Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, “The Evolution of the Visual Pulvinar” Mark Wallace, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School, Louise McGavock Chair, Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Randolph Blake, Ph.D., Centennial Professor of Psychology, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vice Chair of Psychology, Vanderbilt University. Jeffrey D. Schall, Ph.D., E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Director, Center for Integrative & Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Thomas T. Norton, Ph.D., F.A.A.O. Professor, Vision Sciences UAB School of Optometry, “Seeing Clearly: from LGN to Myopia” Anita Disney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. David Calkins, Ph. D. The Denis M. O'Day Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vice-Chairman and Director for Research, The Vanderbilt Eye Institute Director, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University. Murray Sherman, Ph.D., Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, (Keynote)“Thalamocortical Interactions” Rene Marois, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Psychology, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University. Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
