Videocasts on Vision Science and Eye Health
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- NEI 40th Anniversary Symposia Series
- Sayer Vision Research Lecture
- Other Scientific Presentations
- Presentations for the General Public
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NEI 40th Anniversary Symposia Series
Read more about the NEI 40th Anniversary
- Translational Research and Vision, June 24-25th, 2010
View the Videocast for June 24
View the Videocast for June 25
Overview Message by Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D, NIH Director - Focus on Glaucoma, February 18-19, 2010
View the Videocast for February 18
View the Videocast for February 19 - Neuroscience and Vision, November 19-20, 2009
View the Videocast for November 19
View the Videocast for November 20 - Advances in Optical Imaging and Biomedical Science, June 1-2, 2009
View the Videocast for June 1
View the Videocast for June 2 - Genetics and Genomics in Vision, April 16-17, 2009
View the Videocast for April 17 - NEI 40th Anniversary Opening Program, April 3, 2009
View the Videocast for April 3
Sayer Vision Research Lecture
Read more about the Sayer Vision Lecture series
- Basic Science and Clinical Application of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, June 30, 2011
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., winner of a 2010 Lasker Award
- Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors, March 10, 2010
Roger Tsien, Ph.D., winner of The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
(NIH only) - G protein-coupled Receptor Signaling in Phototransduction, October 5, 2007
Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D., John H. Hord Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University
- Stemming Vision Loss with Stem Cells, May 25, 2006
Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute
Scientific Presentations
- CC Grand Rounds Lecture Series: (1) Main Results of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Disease (ACCORD) Trial in Type 2 Diabetes (2) Results of ACCORD Medical Therapies on Diabetic Retinopathy, March 30, 2011
Denise Simons-Morton, M.D., Ph.D., NHLBI and Emily Y. Chew, M.D., NEI - NIH Director's Seminars: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Visual Perception, April 15, 2011
David Leopold, Ph.D., NIMH - NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision, March 16, 2011
Alexander Borst, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology - Neuroscience Seminar Series: Getting a Sense of Direction: Combination of Sensory Cues Improves Spatial Perception, March 07, 2011
Dora Angelaki, Ph.D., Washington University St. Louis - NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: Seeing is Believing— A Gene Therapy Success, December 15, 2010
Jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania - Neuroscience Seminar Series: Probabilistic Inference in Neural Circuits: From Humans to Insects, December 06, 2010
Alexandre Pouget, Ph.D., University of Rochester - NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Synaptic Transmission at the Ribbon Synapses of the Eye and Ear, November 01, 2010
Henrique von Gersdorff, Ph.D., Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
- NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series: The Evolution of Primate Color Vision, September 22, 2010
Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—Strategies to Slow the Onset of Blindness in Retinitis Pigmentosa, September 29, 2010
Connie Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard University
- NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series: Binocular Function in Strabismus, April 26, 2010
Jonathan Horton, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
- NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Retinal Stem Cells, Progenitors and Regeneration: a Bird's Eye View, December 5, 2005
Thomas Reh, Ph.D., University of Washington
- NEI Symposium: Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Complement Factor H, June 14, 2005
Michael Pangburn, Ph.D., University of Texas and Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.
- NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series—A Neuronal Mechanism for Visual Spatial Attention, June 13, 2005
Robert Wurtz, Ph.D., Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI
- NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—What is Human Stereopsis Good For?, March 16, 2005
Suzanne P. McKee, Ph.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
- NIH Director's Seminars— How Cortical Neurons Support Perception in a Three Dimensional World, February 11, 2005
Bruce Cumming, Ph.D., M.D., Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI
- NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series— Unsuspected Roles of Firing Threshold in Visual Cortex, January 24, 2005
Matteo Carandini, Ph.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
- Great Teachers Ground Rounds— Graves' Disease: The Eyes Have It, November 10, 2004
Len Wartofsky, M.D., Washington Hospital Center
- NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series—Genomics Approaches to Photoreceptor Development and Disease, June 23, 2004
Connie Cepko, Ph.D., Harvard University - Summer Lecture Series for Students—Retinitis Pigmentosa: Genetic Retinal Photoreceptor Degenerations, July 22, 2003
Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI
- NIH Director's Seminars—Cytotoxic Effects of Oxidized Cholesterol on RPE Cells, March 7, 2003
Ignacio Rodriguez, Ph.D., Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, NEI
- Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) News Conference, Friday, October 12, 2001
Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI and Frederick L. Ferris III, M.D., Director of Clinical Research, NEI
- NIH Director's Seminars—Interferon Regulatory Transcription Factors: Roles in Ocular Autoimmune Diseases and Tumor Regression, Friday, January 26, 2001
Charles Egwuagu, Ph.D., Laboratory of Immunology, NEI
Presentations for the General Public
- Focus on You Wellness Lecture Series
- Your Eyes: Windows to Your Health, May 8, 2012
Rachel J. Bishop, M.D., M.P.H, NEI - From Carrots to Cataracts: A tour of your eyes in sickness and in health (and how to keep them healthy), May 18, 2011
Rachel J. Bishop, M.D., M.P.H, NEI
- NEI on YouTube
- Cataract, March 17, 2011
Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI - Age-Related Macular Degeneration, January 12, 2011
Rachel Bishop, M.D.. M.P.H., NEI - Glaucoma, January 11, 2011
Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
- Diabetic Eye Disease, January 3, 2011
Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
- Dry Eye, December 14, 2010
Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
- Dilated Eye Exam, October 6, 2010
Rachel Bishop, M.D., M.P.H., NEI
- STEP Symposium: From Amyblyopia to Zits: A Health Fair Forum (HHS Only), January 11, 2011
Various speakers including Wadih Zein, M.D., NEI
- Life Works: Ophthalmologist, March 31, 2010
Emily Chew, M.D., NEI - Retinopathy of Prematurity, June 04, 2010
Brian Brooks, M.D., Ph.D., NEI and William V. Good., M.D., Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
- BrainPort (a device that delivers visual information to the tongue), May 18, 2009
- NEI Interview with Mike Oberdorfer, Ph.D., Neuroscience Program Director, NEI
- NEI Interview with Erik Weihenmayer, Brainport User
- NEI Interview with Bob Beckman, President and CEO of Wicab, Inc.
- Eye on NEI
- Demystifying Medicine—Blindness, March 17, 2009
Joram Piatigorsky, Ph.D., NEI and Robert Nussenblatt, M.D., NEI
- Medicine for the Public—From Childhood Blindness to Age-related Macular Degeneration: Genes, Eye Disease and Prospects for Therapy, October 16, 2007
Paul Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NEI
- Medicine for the Public—Nutritional Therapies for Age-Related Eye Diseases, October 8, 2002
Emily Chew, M.D., NEI