SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE SESSION: THE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM AND BEYOND |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Robert H. Wurtz (National Institute of Health) |
7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | William T. Newsome (Stanford University) "The primate oculomotor system: a window onto value-based decision making" |
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Ann M. Graybiel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "The eyes have it: action chunking and oculomotor control" |
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Opening Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MOTOR PREPARATION |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Neeraj J. Gandhi (University of Pittsburgh) |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Tirin Moore (Stanford University) "Persistent activity in the frontal eye field during sustained attention" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Brian D. Corneil (University of Western Ontario) "Neuromuscular correlates of oculomotor preparation" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:15 am | Kirk G. Thompson (National Institute of Health) "Dissociation of visual selection from saccade programming in the frontal eye field" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Jacqueline P. Gottlieb (Columbia University) "Salience maps as sites of attentional/motor integration" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:10 pm | Short Talk: Jay A. Edelman (City College of New York) "Express saccades revisited: using short-latency movements to probe the influence of preparatory processes on visuomotor processing" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EYE-HEAD COORDINATION |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Laurent Goffart (CNRS, Marseille) |
7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Daniel Guitton (McGill University) "Spatio-temporal patterns of activity on the motor map of the superior colliculus during normal and perturbed head-unrestrained gaze shifts" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Paul J. May (University of Mississippi) "Central mesencephalic reticular formation circuitry for feedforward and feedback control of gaze" |
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | David M. Waitzman (University of Connecticut) "The role of the mesencephalic reticular formation (MRF) in the control of head and eye movements" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Kikuro Fukushima (Hokkaido University) "Discharge of pursuit neurons in the caudal part of the frontal eye fields during head-free pursuit" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | VISUOSPATIAL PROCESSING FOR SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENTS |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Michael E. Goldberg (Columbia University) |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Robert H. Wurtz (National Institute of Health) "Comparison of the thalamic reticular nucleus and the lateral geniculate nucleus in an attention task" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Douglas P. Munoz (Queens University) "Visuomotor transformations for guiding overt and covert orienting" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:45 am | Ziad M. Hafed (Salk Institute) "Population coding of target position by the superior colliculus" |
10:45 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
10:50 am | Coffee Break |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Marc A. Sommer (University of Pittsburgh) "Influence of oculomotor corollary discharge on visual neurons in frontal eye field" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:10 pm | Short Talk: Kristen Ford (University of Western Ontario) "Neural circuitry underlying anti-saccade task performance in monkeys investigated with BOLD fMRI" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEUROETHOLOGY - THE IMPACT OF NATURE’S EXPERIMENTS ON OCULOMOTOR SYSTEMS |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Robert Baker (New York University) |
7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Susan B. Udin (State University of New York, Buffalo) "Very, very slow eye movements in Xenopus, and how the tectum copes" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | J. David Dickman (Washington University) "Walk, run, or fly: different strategies for motion dependent gaze stabilization" |
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Shiva R. Sinha (Indiana University) "Vocal premotor activity in bat superior colliculus: functional analogies with visual accommodation" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Josh Wallman (City College of New York) "The saccade may be an example of a Fixed Action Pattern, but one of extraordinary flexibility" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ACTION IN THE OCULOMOTOR PERIPHERY |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Paul J. May (University of Mississippi) |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Francisco H. Andrade (University of Kentucky) "The design of the extraocular muscles: what is left out of the small package?" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Roland Blumer (University of Vienna) "Palisade endings in monkey extraocular muscles exhibit molecular characteristics of motor terminals" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:45 am | Angel M. Pastor (University of Seville) "Trophic dependencies in the oculomotor system" |
10:45 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
10:50 am | Coffee Break |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Michael E. Goldberg (Columbia University) "The representation of eye position in monkey cerebral cortex" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:10 pm | Short Talk: Yoshiko Izawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) "Neural pathways mediating excitation and inhibition from the superior colliculus to vertical ocular motoneurons" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HOT TOPICS |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Jennifer M. Groh (Duke University) |
7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Dinesh K. Pai (University of British Columbia) "Constructive models of oculomotor systems" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Jacinta O’Shea (University of Oxford) "Transcranial magnetic stimulation studies of frontal eye field function" |
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Gopathy Purushothaman (Vanderbilt University) "Correlated variability in neural population response and the fine discrimination of orientation and direction" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | General Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | VESTIBULAR SYSTEM DYNAMICS: FROM CELLS TO CIRCUITS |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Kathleen E. Cullen (McGill University) |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Gay R. Holstein (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) "Neurotransmitters and modulators involved in central vestibulo-autonomic control" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Pierre-Paul Vidal (CNRS, Paris) "In vivo-in vitro approach, the bridge may be not too far after all..." |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:45 am | Jennifer L. Raymond (Stanford University) "Adaptive timing of eye movements" |
10:45 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
10:50 am | Coffee Break |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Robert Baker (New York University) "A biological approach to the study of the neural basis for oculomotor integration" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 pm - 12:10 pm | Short talk: Jeremy B. Wilmer (University of Pennsylvania) "Two distinct visual motion mechanisms for smooth pursuit: evidence from individual differences" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PREDICTIVE EYE MOVEMENTS |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Richard J. Krauzlis (Salk Institute) |
7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Stephen J. Heinen (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) "Neuronal prediction for an oculomotor decision" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Graham R. Barnes (University of Manchaster) "Evidence for a common, sampled-data mechanism controlling anticipatory pursuit and the internal drive component of sustained pursuit" |
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Gillian A. O’Driscoll (McGill University) "Predictive control of eye movements in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Mark J. Shelhamer (Johns Hopkins University) "Sequences of predictive saccades: statistics, self-organization, neural clocks" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Overview Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |