Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 8, 2013. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
GRS Speaker Abstract Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the date noted above, any applicants who wish to be considered for an oral presentation should submit their application by April 6, 2013. Please refer to the Application Instructions section below for more details (if available).
The Eye Movements Gordon Research Seminar will be held in conjunction with the
Eye Movements Gordon Research Conference. Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Please refer to the Eye Movements GRC web page for more information.
Meeting Overview
The Gordon Research Seminar on Eye Movements is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.
The focus of this meeting is the oculomotor system: eye movements and their underlying neurobiology. The conference will include sessions on models, the interaction with the senses, experimental and analytical methods, and anatomical and clinical perspectives, as well as a panel discussion by junior and senior scientists on seeking a permanent position in academia or industry.
Application Instructions
The meeting will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The Chairs will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 6, 2013. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Deadline section above.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:40 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:40 pm - 4:30 pm | Models of Eye Movement Generation and Control |
| Discussion Leader: Takuro Ikeda (Queens University, lab of Douglas Munoz) |
| 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Arnulf Graf (California Institute of Technology, lab of Richard Anderson)
"Inferring eye movements from populations of intraparietal neurons" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:25 pm | Hrishikesh Rao (Duke University, lab of Marc Sommer)
"A computational robotic model for studying the neural basis of spatial perception" |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Closing the Loop: Eye Movements and the Senses |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Quinet (Institut de neurosciences de la Timone) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Jeroen Atsma (Donders Institute, lab of Pieter Medendorp)
"No visual instability on suddenly cancelled saccades" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Tobias Teichert (Columbia University, lab of Vincent Ferrera)
"Performance monitoring in monkey frontal eye-field" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | J. Patrick Mayo (Harvard Medical School, lab of John Maunsell)
"Measuring frontal eye field receptive fields in space and time" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Mulugeta Abebe (Columbia University, lab of Michael Goldberg)
"Retinotopic and spatial responses in monkey parahippocampal gyrus" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Analytical and Experimental Methods for Investigating Eye Movements |
| Discussion Leader: Gabriela Costello (Wake Forest University, lab of Terrence Stanford) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Friedrich Kretschmer (National Eye Institute, lab of Tudor Badea)
"OKR Arena - an Open Source System to Quantify Optokinetic Responses" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Bartholomäus Odoj (University of Tübingen, lab of Daniela Balslev)
"Role of eye proprioception in visuospatial localization for perception rather than for action" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Linus Sun (Columbia University, lab of Michael Goldberg)
"Eye position modulation of visual responses in LIP depends upon the oculomotor proprioceptive region of somatosensory area 3a" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Jay Jantz (Queen's University, lab of Douglas Munoz)
"Differential influence of the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata on spontaneous and purposive saccades" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Clinical/Anatomical Perspectives on Eye Movements |
| Discussion Leader: Vincent Prevosto (Duke University, lab of Marc Sommer) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Stuart Red (University of Texas at Houston, lab of Anne Sereno)
"Reflexive and voluntary eye movements in cocaine using subjects" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Career Panel: "On the Job Hunt: How to Prepare for Life in and Beyond Academia" |
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Panelists:
- Carol Colby (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh)
- Alice Powers (Professor, St. John's University)
- Lawrence Snyder (Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)
- Robert Wurtz (Section Chief, National Eye Institute)
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| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by R13EY023492 from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Last Updated: May 9, 2013