Optica Fall Vision Meeting
Oct 5 – 8, 2023, South Lake Union Building C
The Fall Vision Meeting is a high-quality, single-track international meeting that attracts a cadre of experts in vision research worldwide. Its single-track nature provides ample opportunity for lively interactions and discussion between attendees at all career levels.
2023 Boynton Lecture: Saturday, Oct 7, 3:45 pm
Rachel Wong, University of Washington, Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Structure.
"Wiring specificity and plasticity of the vertebrate retina"
Vision relies on the output of the many functionally distinct and precisely wired circuits of the retina. Using transgenic techniques, imaging methods, and electrophysiology, we seek to uncover the developmental mechanisms that help establish the wiring specificity of retinal circuits in vertebrates. Moreover, because injury or disease can cause rewiring after maturation, we are also reconstructing primate retinal circuits impacted by the loss of input to identify the challenges to circuit repair.
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