Education Initiatives
Research Seminars
Advanced Topics in Vision Series
Northwestern hosts an Advanced Topics in Vision seminar series for trainees across the University to report their latest research progress. This series also invites vision researchers from other local institutions and visiting investigators.
Past series topics include:
- Cell-cell adhesion regulation in dividing cells
- Robotically-controlled anterior-segment optical coherence tomography
- Bio-inspired computer vision
- Vascular smooth muscle cell deficiency and cognition
- Optical imaging of retinal morphology and physiology
2024-2025 Schedule:
All talks held from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Chicago Location: Ophthalmology conference room, 645 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 440. Chicago, IL
Evanston Location: BME conference room, Tech Institute E311, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL
Organizers: Prof. Ben Thomson, and Prof. Hao F. Zhang
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2024 | Chicago | Benjamin Thomson | TBD |
| November 25, 2024 | Evanston | Pengpeng Zhang (Sun Lab) | Robotic 3D printing multi-material eye phantom |
| November 25, 2024 | Evanston | Vera Fan (Zhang lab) | Swept-source visible-light OCT |
| January 27, 2025 | Chicago | David Swain | TBD (will involve Schlemm's canal morphology) |
| January 27, 2025 | Chicago | Han Peng | TBD |
| February 24, 2025 | Evanston | Sofia Lara Ochoa (Scott-Johnson Labs) | TBD, will involve Schlemm's canal targeting with nanoparticles |
| February 24, 2025 | Evanston | Hao F. Zhang | Digital twin of the eye ball |
| March 25, 2025 | Chicago | Andrius Kazlauskas (UIC) | Resilience to diabetic retinopathy |
| March 25, 2025 | Chicago | Antoinette Williams (Bohnsack Lab) | TBD (will involve Zebrafish anterior segment) |
| April 28, 2025 | Evanston | Molly Flores-Narvaez (Schmidt Lab) | TBD |
| April 28, 2025 | Evanston | Jake Bhoi (Schmidt Lab) | Retinal Modulation of Basal Forebrain Circuits |
Past Seminars:
- Oct 23, 2023: Chicago, Han Peng, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) governs two key processes of wound healing in cornea: inflammatory response and activation of limbal epithelial proliferation
- Oct 23, 2023: Chicago, Jeremy Lavine, Perivascular macrophages: not every retinal macrophage is a microglia
- Nov 27, 2023: Evanston, Anna Louise Vlasits (Schmidt lab), Atypical visual behavior and retinal ganglion cell physiology in the Fmr1 knockout model of Fragile X syndrome
- Nov 27, 2023: Evanston, Daniel Kim (Zhang lab), Quantitatively measuring the anterior segment volume in mice using vis-OCT
- Dec 11, 2023: Chicago, Patrick Kerstein (Assistant Professor, Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University), Genetic mechanisms of amacrine cell development
- Dec 11, 2023: Chicago, Katia Corano Scheri (Fawzi lab), TBD
- Jan 8, 2024: Evanston, Pengpeng Zhang (Sun lab), A new 3D-printing methodology guided by OCT imaging to fabricate soft contact lens
- Jan 8, 2024: Evanston, Vivienne Fang (Muller lab, Lavine lab), TBD
- Jan 29, 2024: Chicago, Swen Oosterboer (Wei Wei lab, University of Chicago), TBD
- Jan 29, 2024: Chicago, Dimitra Skondra (Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Chicago), TBD
- Feb 26, 2024: Evanston, Vera Fan (Zhang lab), Analyzing RGC axon fiber bundles in patients
- Feb 26, 2024: Evanston, XIn Zhang (Schwartz lab), TBD
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