UR Center for Visual Science
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The Center for Visual Science (CVS) is an interdepartmental program that brings together vision scientists at the University of Rochester.
Great turnout for this year's CVS Picnic in Genesee Valley Park! Thanks to everyone who attended and special thanks to the admin team for putting together the event.
TODAY is the abstract submission deadline for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting, as well as the early-registration deadline. Fees increase on July 25. www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/home @optica-fvm.bsky.social
CVS members: Friday is the last day to RSVP for the CVS Picnic on July 31! forms.gle/qicb39ZKjXYq...
1of2) CVS adjunct faculty member Richard Lange has been awarded a NSF Grant (along with co-PI Alex Ororbia) to study brain-inspired architectures for visual representation learning.
Just one week left to submit your abstract for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting! www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting... @optica-fvm.bsky.social
🎉 Congrats to Zhengyang (Eliot) Xu, who won the 2026 Fall Vision Meeting logo contest! Thanks to everyone who entered--we had some great submissions this year. The abstract submission deadline is July 15, so don't delay: www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting...
CVS Faculty: The deadline to submit your application for the Pilot Funds program is June 12. www.cvs.rochester.edu/pilot_funds/
🎉🥳 Congrats to the 2026 Makous prize winners for undergraduate research, Elizabeth Ginzburg & Vandita Soni! The prize honors the graduating seniors who have made the most outstanding contributions to vision research at UR. Read more about Elizabeth and Vandita: www.cvs.rochester.edu/training/mak...
#cvstoday Mar 17 at 3pm, Class of '62 Auditorium/Zoom Boynton Colloquium: Anna Roe, The Nathan Klein Institute for Psychiatric Research Discovery of a new cortical area for central vision Co-sponsored by @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social There will be reception following the talk at 5PM at Grappa
Announcing the 2026 Boynton Colloquium Series. The first talk by Weiji Ma has been cancelled due to inclement weather and will be rescheduled. Details: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/boynt...
Announcing our first 2026 CVS Boynton Colloquium talk on Feb 24 at 3PM: Weiji Ma, New York University Title: Eye movements and planning Talk will be in URMC 1-9576 Ryan Case Method Room & Zoom. There will be reception following the talk at 5PM at Grappa. www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...
Announcing the 2026 CVS Boynton Colloquium Series. The first talk will be Feb 24 at 3PM given by Weiji Ma from New York University. More info: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/boynt...
#cvstoday November 13, 10:00-11:15 am CVS Core Open House You are invited to meet the CVS engineering team, tour the workshop, and see some examples of what the CVS core engineers could create for you! RSVP required, see: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...
#cvstoday October 31, 2025 9:00 am, CVS Large Conference Room, MC G-4104 CVS Research Talk: Pablo Artal, Laboratorio de Óptica de la Universidad de Murcia Two-Photon Infrared Vision www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...
Talk this evening: ROC Optica Speaker Series - Rushnan Islam, The Institute of Optics When: Oct 28 at 7:00 PM Where: Goergen 101 Ultrafast Laser Micromachining in Dry Contact Lenses and Silk Fibroin Hydrogels: Exploring Mass Production of Vision Correctors and Biocompatible Custom Corneal Implants
The #cvsretreat2025 is underway! The morning session begins with an introductory presentation by our director, Susana Marcos @marcoslabur.bsky.social
#cvstoday October 24, 8:30 am-4:45 pm, Feldman Ballroom, Frederick Douglass Commons CVS Retreat: See full agenda on our website www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social
Please join us in welcoming 3 new faculty members to CVS: Benjamin Chin from RIT, Alex Kotelsky from Bausch + Lomb, and Raja Narayanan from @flaumeye.bsky.social www.cvs.rochester.edu/about/news.h...
🎉 CVS grad student Claire Sun was awarded a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). Recipients receive a travel stipend to offset the costs of attending the SfN Neuroscience 2025 meeting. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr. Steven Silverstein, who was awarded the Joseph Zubin Award for lifetime contributions to psychopathology research from the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He received the award at the annual meeting on September 27 in Los Angeles. psychopathology.org/annual-meeti...
#cvstoday October 8, 2:30-4:00 pm, K207 Auditorium, URMC 2-6408 CVS Research Talks: Benjamin Chin, RIT Alexander Kotelsky, Bausch & Lomb Raja Narayanan, Ophthalmology, URMC www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...
#cvstoday 3:00 pm, Helen Wood Hall SON Auditorium, 1W-304 Knill Lecture: Daniel Wolpert, Columbia University Computational principles underlying the learning of sensorimotor repertoires There will be a reception immediately following the lecture in Helen Wood Hall 1W-300.
2of2 Events: 12:00 pm, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall BCS/CVS Research Talk: Eli Merriam, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health Representations in human primary visual cortex drift over time
#cvstoday August 21 2:00 pm, Zoom (check CVS Slack for link) Telias Summer Journal Club: Supraja Varadarajan, UT Southwestern Medical Center The Role of Retinorecipient Neuronal Activity in Promoting Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @flaumeye.bsky.social
We had a fantastic day for the CVS Picnic at Genesee Valley Park. Thanks to everyone who attended, and special thanks to Davids Williams and Fernandez, who ran the grill. Also, thanks to our admin staff and volunteers!
#cvstoday CVS Picnic at 12PM. Riverbend Shelter at Genesee Valley Park.
1of2) #URochesterResearch has discovered that the retina responds differently than many other tissues in the body. When photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, microglia respond, and the neutrophils are not recruited to help despite passing through nearby blood vessels.
#cvstoday July 30 at 2:00 pm, Zoom (check CVS Slack for link) Telias Summer Journal Club: Ryoji Amamoto, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Mechanisms of Secondary Cone Degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @flaumeye.bsky.social