BAVRD 2024

Conference Schedule

9:00 - 9:30
Check in (Breakfast Served)
9:30 - 9:35
Introduction
9:35 - 10:00
Talk Session 1 - Speaker 1 - Veith Weilnhammer PhD, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute UC Berkeley
Talk Title: External and internal modes of perception
10:00 - 10:10
Lightning Talk 1 - Mark Lescroart PhD, University of Nevada Reno
Talk Title: Mosaic of functional specificity for spatial and object-based tasks throughout the multiple demand network
10:10 - 10:20
Lightning Talk 2 - Patricia Limon BS, Stanford University
Talk Title: Effect of Attentional State on Experience Dependent Visual Cortical Neuroplasticity: Contrast Response Function Changes as a Result of Attention to Visual Stimulus Across Days
10:20 - 10:45
Talk Session 1 - Speaker 2 - Katrin Franke PhD, Stanford School of Medicine
Talk Title: Mapping neuronal representations in the visual cortex using deep learning
10:45 - 10:55
Lightning Talk 3 - YuYi Lu BS BA, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: The locus of redundancy masking
10:55 - 11:05
Lightning Talk 4 - Ryan Ash MD PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Talk Title: Noninvasive neuromodulation of human visual thalamus with transcranial ultrasound stimulation
11:05 - 11:15
Break (Coffee & Tea Served)
11:15 - 11:40
Talk Session 2 - Speaker 3 - Michael Silver PhD, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: Predictions and visual perceptual selection
11:40 - 11:50
Lightning Talk 5 - Wendy Torrens MS, University of Nevada Reno
Talk Title: Anomalous visual cortical excitability in Schizotypy
11:50 - 12:00
Lightning Talk 6 - Vaidehi Natu PhD, Stanford University
Talk Title: Infants' cortex undergoes microstructural growth coupled with myelination during development
12:00 - 12:50
Keynote Speaker - Dan Yamins PhD, Stanford University
Talk Title: Climbing the Ladder of Causation Toward Intermediate Vision
12:50 - 1:50
Lunch Break (Lunch Served)
1:50 - 2:15
Talk Session 3 - Speaker 4 - Jorge Otero-Millan PhD, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: Learning to hold the eyes still and aligned
2:15 - 2:25
Lightning Talk 7 - Reem Almagati OD MSc, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: Effects of Convergence and Monocular viewing on Perception of the World’s Horizontal and Vertical in Virtual Reality
2:25 - 2:35
Lightning Talk 8 - Orhan Soyuhos MSc, University of California Davis
Talk Title: Posterior Parietal Inactivation Alters Intrinsic Neural Timescales and Attentional Processing in Frontal Eye Field Neurons
2:35 - 2:45
Break (Coffee & Tea Served)
2:45 - 3:10
Talk Session 4 - Speaker 5 - Tyson Kim MD PhD, UCSF School of Medicine
Talk Title: Transscleral Multiphoton Imaging and Flowmetry
3:10 - 3:20
Lightning Talk 9 - Kiara Abhayaratne, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: Modeling Photoreceptor Loss and Behavioral Performance in Retinitis Pigmentosa in rd10 Mice Using a Cricket-Hunting Assay
3:20 - 3:30
Lightning Talk 10 - Emily Ward MSc, University of California Berkeley
Talk Title: Will blocking PGE2 protect the retina in a mouse model of glaucoma-like neurodegeneration?
3:30 - 3:35
Ending message
3:35 - 5:00
Poster Session + Drinks Reception (Beverages & Bites Served)
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