Ophthalmology and vision sciences : the past and future / 23rd June 1997.

London : The Wellcome Trust, 1997.

5 sound cassettes

Wellcome Trust

23rd June 1997

Programme--Session 1:Frontiers on Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences. Chair, Prof. John Forrester--Welcome: Prof. Sir Stanley Peart--General Introduction: Prof. John Forrester--Ageing and Vision / Dr Hans Peter Hammes--Genetics in vision science / Dr Alan Wright--Defense mechanisms and the eye in the 21st century / Prof. Wayne Streilein--The autonomy of the visual areas of the human brain and the modularity of consciousness / Prof. Semir Zeki--Discussion and summing up of the morning session: Prof. John Forrester--Session 2:An update from past and present Wellcome Vision Fellows. Chair, Prof. Peter Humphries--Linkage analysis and physical mapping of the optic atrophy locus / Dr Marcela Votruba and Dr Amanda Churchill--Functional coupling in bovine ciliary epithelial cells / Dr John Stelling--Preventing ocular scarring: from laboratory research to clinical treatments / Mr Peng Khaw--The use of psychophysics in assessment of visual dysfunction in diabetic eye disease / Mr Nigel Davies--Retinal 'clock' mechanisms - implications of ageing and disease Dr Mark Hankins--The responses of primate LGN neurons to geometrically simple stimuli and to images of natural scenes / Dr Yoav Tadmor--The role of perspective information in structure-from-motion judgements / Dr Richard Eagle--Dynamic parallelism in the visual brain: Dr / Dominic ffytche. [A full programme of this event is available from MFAC].