European Retina Meeting 2009

Symposia:

The meeting will include five symposia on different aspects of retinal processing:

Session Title Speakers
S1 Retinal Circuits and Adaptation
Keynote: Botond Roska
S2 Photoreceptors and Color Vision
Keynote: Gerald H. Jacobs
S3 Development and Plasticity
Keynote: Marla B. Feller
S4 Neural Computations in the Retina
Keynote: E.J. Chichilnisky
S5 Synaptic Organization in the Retina
Keynote: Ronald Gregg


For each symposium, one outstanding scientist will give a keynote lecture and four additional speakers will be chosen from the applicants.

Each symposium is 3 hrs long. The time slots for keynote and special lectures are 45+5 minutes; for all other speakers the time slots are 20+5 minutes.


Poster sessions:

All posters will be up during the meeting. Poster presentation sessions (for posters with even or odd poster numbers) will be held with no conflicting events on two of the conference days. The posters will cover various aspects of retina research, including the topics of the symposia. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible.


Special lectures:

There will be three special lectures; see program for scheduling.

Title Speaker
t.b.a.
Andreas Reichenbach
t.b.a.
John E. Dowling
Sehen und Kunst: das kunstvolle Auge (in German)
Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Stadt der Wissenschaft
Reto Weiler


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