Previous Presentations

Past Oxyopia Vision Science Seminars

Past Oxyopia presenters have been IU School of Optometry faculty members and graduate students, as well as visiting lecturers from other departments, universities, research facilities, private practices, and industry.

Past presentations by year

8/31/2018
Franco Pestilli, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Optometry, Indiana University

9/14/2018
Raji Shyam, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Optometry, Indiana University

9/28/2018
Robert Massof, PhD
Professor, Ophthalmology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University

10/5/2018
Ashay Bhatwadekar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Indiana University

10/12/2018
Armin Moczek, PhD
Professor, Arts and Scienes, Indiana University

10/19/2018
Mallika Valapala, PhD
Assistant Professor, Optometry, Indiana University

10/26/2018
Charles Lin, PhD
Associate Professor, Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

12/3/2018
Michael Crair, PhD
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale

12/7/2018
Viswa Ramasubramanian, PhD
Research Associate, Optometry, Indiana University

3/22/2019
Stephen Pflugfelder, MD
Professor, Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine
4/5/2019
Christine Wildsoet, OD, PhD
Professor, Optometry, University of California, Berkeley

9/1/2017
Joseph Bonanno, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Corneal Endothelial Dystrophy in the Slc4a11 Knock Out Mouse

9/8/2017
Shirin Hassan, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Is Seeing Believing? Can Visually Impaired Pedestrians Cross Streets Safely?

9/15/2017
Zhong-Lin Lu, PhD
The Ohio State University
Quick CSF: Detecting Hidden Vision Loss

9/29/2017
Robert Marc, PhD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Utah
Borish Scholar
POSTPONED

10/20/2017
Richard Rosen, MD
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
OCT Angiography: New Opportunities for Quantitative Retinal Vascular Imaging

10/27/2017
Guoqiang Li, PhD
The Ohio State University
Adaptive optical elements for vision care and biomedical imaging

11/10/2017
Chen Yu, PhD
Psychology and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
What head-mounted eye tracking reveals about infants’ active visual exploration

11/17/2017
Franco Pestilli, PhD
Psychology and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
The visual white matter, matters

12/1/2017
Deborah Ferrington, PhD
University of Minnesota
Borish Scholar
Matching Therapy to AMD Disease Mechanism: Targeting Mitochondria in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium

12/8/2017
S.P. Srinivas, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
FECD: The other side of the coin!

9/2/2016
Christine A. Curcio, PhD
University of Alabama Birmingham
Borish Scholar
Visualizing the neurodegeneration of age-related macular degeneration in histology and multimodal imaging

9/9/2016
Patrice Tankam, PhD
University of Rochester
Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy: The perspective of Regenerative Medicine

9/16/2016
Hannah Block, PhD
Kinesiology, Indiana University
Reciprocal effects of change in visuo-proprioceptive and motor processing

9/23/2016
Xiao Fu
Grad Student, Biocomplexity Inst., Physics, Indiana University
Progression of Diabetic Capillary Occlusions: An Explanatory Computational Model

9/30/2016
Rob deRuyter
Biophysics and Neural Science, Indiana University
Using bilocal visual noise to investigate motion detection in flies and humans

10/14/2016
Artur Cideciyan, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Borish Scholar
Gene Therapy for the Improvement of Vision and Arrest of Retinal Degeneration

10/28/2016
Alfred Lewin, PhD
University of Florida
Gene Delivery of Secreted Cell Penetrating Peptides to Prevent Retinal Degeneration in a Mouse Model of Oxidative Stress in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium

11/4/2016
Teddy Chow, Edmund Arthur, Debra Antvil, Basal Altoaim, Alice Grasso, Casey Carr
Students, Optometry, Indiana University
Pre-American Academy of Optometry talks

11/18/2016
Mallika Valapala, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Induction of Lysosomal Function for the Treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration

12/2/2016
Paul Gamlin, PhD
University of Alabama Birmingham
Borish Scholar
Intrinsically-photosensitive Ganglion Cells: Anatomy, Physiology, and Behavioral Roles

12/9/2016
Stephen Burns, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
In Vivo Changes in Diabetic Retinopathy: towards biomarkers for risk

1/13/2017
Ann Elsner, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Individual Differences in Human Retinas: Neuroplasticity in Aging and Age-related Macular Degeneration and the Potential for Cone Survival and Vision

1/20/2017
Debra Antwi
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Measurement of fluorescein concentration in the Tear Film by image analysis and tear sampling

1/20/2017
Brad Caron
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
The effects of concussion-prone athletics on the brain: A comparison of football, cross-country, and socioeconomically matched non-athletes using fMRI and diffusion-imaging.

1/27/2017
Senyo Bright
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Measuring the axial power of multifocal contact lenses using Shack-Hartmann aberrometer

1/27/2017
Amos Wang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Measuring the axial power of multifocal contact lenses using Shack-Hartmann aberrometer

2/3/2017
David Crandall, PhD
Informatics, Indiana University
Egocentric computer vision, for fun and science

2/10/2017
Kaitlym Sapoznik
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Multiply-scattered light AOSLO imaging using a configurable aperture approach

2/10/2017
Ting Luo
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Modeling retinal arterial diameters and velocities at bifurcations

2/17/2017
Hin Cheung
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Potential biomarker for glaucoma-related damage to the retinal nerve fiber layer

2/17/2017
Yen-Chiao Wang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Spdef regulates the early stage development of conjunctival goblet cell

2/24/2017
Furu Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Diurnal Time Course of Cone Photoreceptor Disc Shedding in the Living Human Eye

2/24/2017
Arthur Edmond
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Neural and vascular changes in the eyes of diabetic patients

3/3/2017
Martin S. Banks, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Borish Scholar The statistics of binocular disparity and blur encountered in everyday life

3/10/2017
Ayoub Lassoued
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Classification of cones across the transition zone in retinitis pigmentosa based on AO-OCT signature

3/10/2017
Essam Almutleb
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Street-Crossing Decision-Making in Pedestrians with Simulated Central Field Loss

3/24/2017
Sonisha Neupane
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
The relationship between motor behavior and perception in strabismic subject

3/24/2017
Ray Warner
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Flicker evoked changes in retinal capillary blood flow measured using a dual channel Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope

3/31/2017
Moonjung Choi
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Functional roles of SLCA411 and mitochondria will influence our understanding of how the loss of SCL4A11 results in corneal endothelial dystrophies

4/7/2017
Nancy McNamara, OD, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Borish Scholar
Crosstalk of the nervous and immune systems in aqueous-deficient dry eye disease

4/14/2017
Colin Downey
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Dynamic Characteristics of 5 to 22 week-old Infants’ Accommodation and Vergence Tracking Responses

4/14/2017
Yifei Wu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
TBA

4/21/2017
Alice Grasso
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
A Comparison of Stereotests

4/21/2017
Maddie Jones
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
The Mind Can’t Go Blind: How Age-related Macular Degeneration Affects Street Crossing Time Estimates

4/28/2017
Kazuhiro Kurokawa, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
TBA

9/4/2015
Malika Valapala, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Induction of Lysosomal Function for the Treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration

9/11/2015
Wendy Harrison
Western University
Seeing Unexplained Vision Loss

9/18/2015
Chia-Yang Liu, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Gene Regulatory Networks Governing Goblet Cell Differention In Ocular Surface Epithelium

9/25/2015
Yujin Zhang, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Wnt/beta-catenin signaling modulates corneal epithelium stratification via inhibition of Bmp4 during mouse development

10/2/2015
Nicholas Port, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Saccadic and pursuit ocular motor deficits among individuals afflicted with Schizophrenia and their first degree relatives

10/16/2015
Gareth Hastings
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Scaling Wavefront Aberrations when Changing Pupil Size B

10/23/2015
Renfeng Xu, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
Non-accommodative strategies for expanding the depth of focus of presbyopes

10/30/2015
Ting Luo
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Behavior of the retinal vasculature for normal and diabetes

10/30/2015
Essam Saad Almutleb
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Simulation of a Central Scotoma Using Contact Lenses with an Opaque Center

11/6/2015
Eli Peli, OD
Harvard Medical School
Borish Scholar
Diplopia and confusion partners in discomfort mostly together but sometime separate

11/13/2015
Ray Applegate, OD, PhD
University of Houston
Corneal refractive surgery: Treating the wrong location with the wrong correction

11/20/2015
Yang Sun, MD, PhD
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Primary cilia and inositol signaling in the eye

12/4/2015
Zhuolin Liu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Estimation of Osmolarity within Areas of Tear Breakup

12/4/2015
Jun Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
TBA

12/11/2015
Basal Altoaimi
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Adaptive optics and the eye (super resolution OCT)

1/15/2016
Huachun Amos Wang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Pupil Miosis benefits for highly aberrated eye

1/22/2016
Ayuob Lassoued
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Transition Zone between Healthy and Diseased Retina in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa

1/22/2016
Joel Papay
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Axial analysis of cones and adjacent retinal structures using AOSLO

1/29/2016
Hind Othman
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Wall To Lumen Ratio (WLR) In Clinically Involved And Uninvolved Areas Within Individual Diabetic Eyes

1/29/2016
Muhammed Saad M Alluwimi
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Targeting damaged RNFL bundles on en face images with closely-spaced Visual Field points

2/5/2016
Tao Liu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Interaction of axial and oblique astigmatism in theoretical and physical eye models

2/12/2016
Wenlin Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Slc4a11 knock-out model of Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy reveals a phenotype consistent with ammonia toxicity

2/12/2016
Bright Senyo Ashimatey
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Between-subject variability in healthy eyes as a primary source of structural-functional discordance in patients with Glaucoma

2/19/2016
Bruce Cumming, MD, PhD
National Eye Inbstitute
Borish Scholar TBA

2/26/2016
Edmund Arthur
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Optical Coherence Tomography transverse imaging of diabetic retinas

2/26/2016
Yifei Wu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Modeling the pupil image of eccentric photorefraction using Zemax

3/4/2016
Tim Kern
University of Wisconsin
Borish Scholar
TBA

3/11/2016
Eric Seemiller
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Eye Position Stability in 5- to 10-Week-Olds

3/11/2016
Meznah Almutairi
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Binocular Static Accommodation of Early Presbyopes

3/25/2016
Shannon Risacher, PhD
Indiana Alzheimer Disease Control, Indianapolis Visual Measures as Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease

4/1/2016
Gordon Legge, PhD
University of Minnesota
Borish Scholar
TBA

4/8/2016
Furu Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Cone outer segment disc shedding imaged in the living human eye

4/8/2016
Kaitlyn Sapoznik
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Multimodal imaging of retinal sequelae of choroidal nevus

4/15/2016
Olivia Reed
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
TBA

4/15/2016
Ashly Ryckman
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
TBA

4/22/2016
Rob deRuyter
Biophysics and Neural Science, Indiana University
TBA

4/29/2016
Susana Marcos, PhD
Institute of Optics (IO), CSIC, Spain
Borish Scholar
Understanding and Correcting Presbyopia

1/23/2015
Ann Elsner, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
I'm Not Done Yet: Cones in AMD

1/23/2015
Senyo Ashtimatey
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Quantifying the density of Retinal Nerve Fibers (RNF) in SD-OCT enface Images

1/23/2015
Wenlin Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Glutamine is an essential contributor to the human corneal endothelial ATP pool

1/30/2015
Jason Marsack, PhD
University of Houston
An Integrated Approach to Improving Visual Performance in Highly Aberrated Eyes

2/6/2015
Eric Seemiller
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
The sensitivity of vergence eye movements in 5-10 week old infants.

2/6/2015
Yifei Wu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Adaptation of phoria and accommodation in young children

2/13/2015
Arian Ashourvan
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Dynamic network interactions of the human oculomotor system based on intrinsic connectivity

2/20/2015
Joel Papay
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Quantifying foveal form birefringence in aging and diabetes

2/20/2015
Jun Zhang
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Visual Disturbance and Ocular Irritation in an Experimental Dry Eye Model

2/27/2015
Omer Kocaoglu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
MHz AO-OCT for imaging the microscopic retina

2/27/2015
Mastour Alhamami
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Comparison of cysts in red and green images for diabetic macular edema

2/27/2015
Feng Xu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Postponed

3/6/2015
Tao Liu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Uniformity of Accommodation Across the Visual Field

3/6/2015
Zhuolin Liu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Imaging the retinal pigment epithelium mosaic with AO-OCT

3/13/2015
Brad Fortune, OD, PhD
Devers Eye Institute
Borish Scholar
Imaging retinal ganglion cells, their axons and transport in experimental models of optic nerve injury: implications for clinical management of glaucoma and other optic neuropathies

3/27/2015
Ron Harwerth, PhD
University of Houston
Borish Scholar
TBA

4/3/2015
Nathan Doble, PhD
The Ohio State University
Borish Scholar
High Resolution Retinal Imaging Using Adaptive Optics

4/10/2015
Mahnaz Shahidi, PhD
University of Illinois, Chicago
Borish Scholar
Retinal Oxygen Delivery and Metabolism Imaging

4/17/2015
Rowan Candy, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
The Control of Ocular Alignment During Infancy and Early Childhood

4/24/2015
Nicholas Port, PhD
Optometry, Indiana University
A Rapid Objective Tool for Diagnosing Concussions Utilizing the Involuntary Aspects of Eye Movements

5/1/2015
Renfeng Xu
Student, Optometry, Indiana University
Non-accommodative treatments for presbyopes