program
Updated: September 10, 2019
Wednesday: September 11
18:00—20:00 get-together
Registration and Get-together at Clarion Living Room
thursday: september 12
9:00—9:10 Welcome words
Petri Ala-Laurila (Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland)
9:10—11:00 Session I: Phototransduction, Photoreceptors and RPE
9:10 - 9:15 Chair: Richard Kramer (UC Berkeley, USA)
9:15 - 9:45 Keynote: King-Wai Yau (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Title: Light Detection in the Eye — The Big Picture9:45 - 10:10 Marie Burns (UC Davis, USA)
Title: Naughty or Nice? The nature of microglia interactions with photoreceptors during injury, degeneration and retinal remodeling10:10 - 10:35 Soile Nymark (Tampere University, Finland)
Title: Voltage-Gated Ion Channels of RPE: Important Players in Photoreceptor Renewal10:35 - 11:00 Rikard Frederiksen (UCLA, USA)
Title: Photoreceptor responsiveness and pigment regeneration in bright light
11:00—11:30 Coffee
11:30—13:20 Session II: Neural computations in the retina
11:30 - 11:35 Chair: Greg Schwartz (Northwestern University, USA)
11:35 - 12:05 Keynote: Tim Gollisch (University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany)
Title: Retinal coding of dynamic visual scenes12:05 - 12:30 Philipp Berens (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Title: Inferring biophysical models of retinal neurons from data12:30 - 12:55 Stephane Deny (Stanford University, USA)
Title: The emergence of multiple retinal cell types through efficient coding of natural movies12:55 - 13:20 Leon Lagnado (University of Sussex)
Title: Plasticity of the vesicle code transmitting the visual signal to the inner retina
13:20—14:20 Lunch
14:20—16:10 Session III: Non-image forming vision
14:20 - 14:25 Chair: Rob Lucas (University of Manchester, UK)
14:25 - 14:55 Keynote: Tiffany Schmidt (Northwestern University, USA)
Title: GABAergic ipRGCs in the mouse retina14:55 - 15:20 Annette Allen (University of Manchester, UK)
Title: Does melanopsin help us to detect patterns?15:20 - 15:45 Samer Hattar (NIH, USA)
Title: Retinal and brain circuits underlying the effects of light on behavior15:45 - 16:10 Tim Brown (University of Manchester, UK)
Title: Cone-derived colour signals regulate circadian light sensitivity to support clock alignment in an unpredictable world
16:10—16:40 Coffee
16:40—17:45 short talks and quickfire Session I
16:40 - 16:45 Chair: Stephen Massey (University of Texas at Houston, USA)
16:45 - 17:00 Gabriel Peinado (UC Davis, USA)
Title: Using the ERG c-wave to assess the physiological integrity of the subretinal space in vivo17:00 - 17:15 Jussi Tiihonen (Aalto University, Finland)
Title: Resolving the fundamental limits of visual signal statistics with a single-photon gun
Quickfire presentations:Jen-Chun Hsiang (Washington University, USA)
Helene Schreyer (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Alexandra Kling (Stanford University, USA)
Kiersten Ruda (Duke University, USA)
Sabrina Duda (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Shai Sabbah (Hebrew University, Israel)
Yunmin Wu (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany)
Sponsor presentations:
17:50—19:45 Poster session I
Posters presentations will be in the 2nd floor poster rooms.
Check out the ERM2019 online posters
20:00— Social program:
Löyly restaurant and sauna bar at Helsinki waterfront
Friday, September 13
9:00—10:25 Session IV: Novel methods in visual neuroscience
9:00 - 9:05 Chair: Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
9:05 - 9:35 Keynote: Botond Roska (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland)
Title: The human retina9:35 - 10:00 Valentina Emiliani (Vision Insitut / CNRS, France)
Title: Holographic manipulation of visual circuits10:00 - 10:25 Alexander Mathis (Harvard University, USA)
Title: DeepLabCut: a deep learning tool for fast, robust, and efficient 3D pose estimation
10:25—10:55 Coffee
10:55—12:45 Session V: Cones and color vision (Ragnar granit session)
10:55 - 11:00 Chair: Kristian Donner (University of Helsinki)
11:00 - 11:30 Keynote: Austin Roorda (UC Berkeley, USA)
Title: Hacking the human visual system11:30 - 11:55 Michael Do (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Title: High-fidelity signal propagation through foveal cones11:55 - 12:20 Katrin Franke (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Title: Chromatic processing in the mouse retina12:20 - 12:45 Tom Baden (University of Sussex, UK)
Title: Zebrafish colour vision and natural light
12:45—13:45 Lunch
13:45—15:35 Session VI: Retinal circuits I
13:45 - 13:50 Chair: Leon Lagnado (University of Sussex, UK)
13:50 - 14:20 Keynote: Fred Rieke (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Title: Retinal coding of natural inputs14:20 - 14:45 Keisuke Yonehara (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Title: Visual motion processing from retina to visual cortical areas in mice14:45 - 15:10 Wei Wei (University of Chicago, USA)
Title: A dynamic retinal circuit for context-dependent motion processing15:10 - 15:35 Olivier Marre (Institut de la Vision, France)
Title: All-optical interrogation of a direction selective retinal circuit by holographic wave front shaping
15:35—16:05 Coffee
16:05—17:10 Short talks and quickfire Session II
16:05 - 16:10 Chair: Christian Puller (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
16:10 - 16:25 Or Shemesh (MIT, USA)
Title: Reading out and manipulating neural circuits at single-cell resolution16:25 - 16:40 Wei Li (NIH, USA)
Title: An essential optic role of mitochondria in cone photoreceptors
Quickfire presentations:Juan Angueyra (NIH, USA)
Filip Janiak (University of Sussex, UK)
Saad Idrees (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Jillian Goetz (Northwestern University, USA)
Tom Boissonnet (EMBL, Italy)
Rebekah Warwick (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Elaine Orendorff (Sorbonne Université, France)
Sponsor presentation:Sensapex
Title: Boost multi-patching with automated pipette cleaning
17:15—19:15 Poster session II
Posters presentations will be in the 2nd floor poster rooms.
Check out the ERM2019 online posters
19:30—20:00 Boats to the dinner
20:00— Conference dinner
The conference dinner will take place at the Restaurant Saaristo located on the Klippan island. The dinner will feature the artist Emilianne.
Saturday, September 14
9:00—10:50 Session VII: Beyond the retina
9:00 - 9:05 Chair: Paul Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
9:05 - 9:35 Keynote: Herwig Baier (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany)
Title: Gone hunting – Visuomotor circuits for prey capture behavior in zebrafish9:35 - 10:00 Chinfei Chen (Harvard, USA)
Title: Convergence of the Retinogeniculate Circuit10:00 - 10:25 Maarten Kamermans (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Title: Nystagmus in patients with CSNB originates from synchronously firing retinal ganglion cells10:25 - 10:50 Norma Kühn (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders, Belgium)
Title: Local integration of retinal inputs in wide-field neurons of the superior colliculus
10:50—11:20 Coffee
11:20—13:10 Session VIII: Retinal circuits II
11:20 - 11:25 Chair: William Grimes (NINDS/NIH, USA)
11:25 - 11:55 Keynote: Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Title: Dendritic integration in mouse retinal ganglion cells11:55 - 12:20 Josh Singer (University of Maryland, USA)
Title: Anatomical and physiological analysis of novel retinal circuits12:20 - 12:45 Jeffrey Diamond (NIH, USA)
Title: A novel (primary?) rod pathway in the mouse retina12:45 - 13:10 Greg Field (Duke University, USA)
Title: Meta-Mosaics of the Mammalian Retina