Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Gaze in Natural Behavior
The realm of behaviors studied via eye movements has expanded from traditional laboratory-controlled tasks to include unconstrained conditions, reflecting more natural behaviors. The talks in this session will discuss cortical and subcortical signals in free viewing and natural search conditions, to investigate eye movement and visual signals involved in the visual perception and spatial representation of natural environments.
Discussion Leader: Amirsaman Sajad (Vanderbilt University, USA)
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm
Seth Koenig (University of Washington, USA)
"Eye Movements Temporally Organize Spatial Representations in the Primate Hippocampus"
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Daniel Wood (Northwestern University, USA)
"Distinct Eye Movement Strategies Differentially Reshape Visual Space"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Visual Processing and Eye Movement Control
The eyes explore scenes with saccades, and lock on to moving objects with pursuit. Eye movements therefore both influence, and are influenced by, visual sensory input. Talks in this session will emphasize and discuss this relationship, and the interaction of saccades and smooth pursuit movements with visual signals during oculomotor control.
Discussion Leader: Valeria Caruso (Duke University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm
Corentin Massot (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Laminar Organization of Spiking Activity in the Superior Colliculus"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Janis Kan (Queen's University, Canada)
"Visual Saliency Response in the Superficial and Intermediate Superior Colliculus"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tim Darlington (Duke University, USA)
"Neural Implementation of Bayesian Sensory-Motor Behavior in Eye Movements"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Rebecca Gerth (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Correlations in Presaccadic Frontoparietal Activity: What's Conserved and What's Lost Across Spike-Spike, Spike-LFP, and LFP-LFP Comparisons?"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Frederic Crevecoeur (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
"A Sensorimotor Origin of Saccadic Suppression"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Emerging Novel Methods in Health and Disease
Contemporary oculomotor studies include diverse behavioral, computational, imaging, and recording techniques. New approaches are expanding possibilities of healthy eye movement experiments, and refining gaze biomarkers of disease conditions. Talks in this session will focus on advances gained through these techniques, with an emphasis on their advantages and limitations, and on the complementarity (or lack thereof) of emerging results with established methodologies to better understand the oculomotor system in both healthy and disease conditions.
Discussion Leader: Ashley Parr (Queen's University, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:20 am
Marcus Watson (York University, Canada)
"Eyetracking in the Virtual World: A Toolkit for Frame-by-Frame Classification of Gaze During Experimental Tasks Presented Using a 3D Video Game Engine"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Kaleb Lowe (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Metaclustering of Frontal Eye Field: Unveiling Diversity in the Neuronal Control of Eye Movements"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Kimberly Meier (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Global Motion Discrimination and Fixation Stability in Amblyopia"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Suraj Upadhyaya (University of Houston College of Optometry, USA)
"Role of Superior Colliculus in Maintaining Static Misalignment in Strabismic Monkeys"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Adam Pallus (University of Washington, USA)
"Abnormalities of Pontine Paramedian Reticular Formation in Strabismic Monkeys"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Three panelists will discuss the challenges faced by trainees in the job market and strategies for success. They will present diverse perspectives on pathways to careers in academic research universities (Dr. Katy Thakkar, Asst. Prof., Michigan State), teaching universities (Dr. Aaron Cecala, Assoc. Prof., Elizabethtown College), and neuroscience entrepreneurship in technology (Dr. Ramses Alcaide, CEO Neurable Inc.).
Discussion Leaders: Jay Jantz (Queen's University, Canada) and Chao Gu (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
On the Job Hunt: How to Prepare for Life After Training
Ramses Alcaide (Neurable Inc., USA)
Aaron Cecala (Elizabethtown College, USA)
Katy Thakkar (Michigan State University, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
