News Advisory
Neuroscience and the National Eye Institute:
Vision Research Presentations at Neuroscience 2008 |
What: |
Researchers supported by the National Eye
Institute (NEI), one of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), as well as researchers working on-site at NEI will
present recent advances in vision science at the Society
for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Topics will include stem
cells, visual processing and vision's role in decision making. |
Why: |
Vision scientists will demonstrate the interdisciplinary
impact of their work by presenting the latest NEI-funded
neuroscience research findings. |
When: |
November 15-19, 2008 |
Where: |
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001 |
Contact: |
To arrange an interview with NEI scientists,
please contact the NEI at 301.496.5248 or e-mail your request
to neinews@nei.nih.gov.
For more information on the Society for Neuroscience Annual
Meeting, visit www.sfn.org. |
Event Highlights:
Saturday, November 15
- 2:30 p.m. / Room 201 — Objects and Faces:
Human Perception and Expertise — Golijeh
Golarai, Ph.D., Stanford University
Sunday, November 16
- 11:30 a.m. / Room 204C — NIH Neuroscience
Experts Panel — Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.,
NEI director
Monday, November 17
- 4:00 p.m. / Room 147B — Stem Cells: Properties
and Applications — Michael E. Zuber, Ph.D.,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Tuesday, November 18
- 9:00 a.m. / Room 204C — "Decisions,
Decisions": How Do We Make Thousands of Daily
Choices? — Okihide Hikosaka, M.D., Ph.D.,
NEI
- 2:15 p.m. / Room 145B — Attention: Search — Marius
V. Peelen, Ph.D., Princeton University
- 3:30 p.m. / Room 204C — What's Next for Stem
Cell Therapies? — Anand Swaroop, Ph.D.,
NEI
Wednesday, November 19
- 9:00 a.m. / Room 209A — Decision and Response
Selection — Christopher J. Peck, Columbia
University
- 9:15 a.m. / Room 209A — Decision and Response
Selection — Jamie K. Fitzgerald, Harvard
Medical School
- 3:45 p.m. / Room 152B — Progenitors and Stem
Cells — Xiumei Li, University of Alabama
at Birmingham
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The National Eye Institute (NEI), a component of the National
Institutes of Health, is the federal government's lead agency for
vision research that leads to sight-saving treatments and plays
a key role in reducing visual impairment and blindness. For more
information, visit the NEI Web site at www.nei.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's
Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and
Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting
and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research,
and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and
its programs, visit www.nih.gov. |