Updated: September 10, 2019

Wednesday: September 11

18:00—20:00 get-together

• Registration and Get-together at Clarion Living Room

thursday: september 12

9:00—9:10 Welcome words

• Petri Ala-Laurila (Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland)

9:10—11:00 Session I: Phototransduction, Photoreceptors and RPE

• 9:10 - 9:15 Chair: Richard Kramer (UC Berkeley, USA)

• 9:15 - 9:45 Keynote: King-Wai Yau (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
  Title: Light Detection in the Eye — The Big Picture

• 9:45 - 10:10 Marie Burns (UC Davis, USA)
  Title: Naughty or Nice? The nature of microglia interactions with photoreceptors during injury, degeneration and retinal remodeling

• 10:10 - 10:35 Soile Nymark (Tampere University, Finland)
  Title: Voltage-Gated Ion Channels of RPE: Important Players in Photoreceptor Renewal

• 10:35 - 11:00 Rikard Frederiksen (UCLA, USA)
  Title: Photoreceptor responsiveness and pigment regeneration in bright light
  

11:00—11:30 Coffee

11:30—13:20 Session II: Neural computations in the retina

• 11:30 - 11:35 Chair: Greg Schwartz (Northwestern University, USA)

• 11:35 - 12:05 Keynote: Tim Gollisch (University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany)
  Title: Retinal coding of dynamic visual scenes

• 12:05 - 12:30 Philipp Berens (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Title: Inferring biophysical models of retinal neurons from data

• 12:30 - 12:55 Stephane Deny (Stanford University, USA)
  Title: The emergence of multiple retinal cell types through efficient coding of natural movies

• 12:55 - 13:20 Leon Lagnado (University of Sussex)
  Title: Plasticity of the vesicle code transmitting the visual signal to the inner retina
  
  

13:20—14:20 Lunch


14:20—16:10 Session III: Non-image forming vision

• 14:20 - 14:25 Chair: Rob Lucas (University of Manchester, UK)

• 14:25 - 14:55 Keynote: Tiffany Schmidt (Northwestern University, USA)
  Title: GABAergic ipRGCs in the mouse retina

• 14:55 - 15:20 Annette Allen (University of Manchester, UK)
  Title: Does melanopsin help us to detect patterns?

• 15:20 - 15:45 Samer Hattar (NIH, USA)
  Title: Retinal and brain circuits underlying the effects of light on behavior

• 15:45 - 16:10 Tim Brown (University of Manchester, UK)
  Title: Cone-derived colour signals regulate circadian light sensitivity to support clock alignment in an unpredictable world
  

16:10—16:40 Coffee

16:40—17:45 short talks and quickfire Session I

• 16:40 - 16:45 Chair: Stephen Massey (University of Texas at Houston, USA)

• 16:45 - 17:00 Gabriel Peinado (UC Davis, USA)
  Title: Using the ERG c-wave to assess the physiological integrity of the subretinal space in vivo

• 17:00 - 17:15 Jussi Tiihonen (Aalto University, Finland)
  Title: Resolving the fundamental limits of visual signal statistics with a single-photon gun
  
  Quickfire presentations:

• Jen-Chun Hsiang (Washington University, USA)

• Helene Schreyer (University of Göttingen, Germany)

• Alexandra Kling (Stanford University, USA)

• Kiersten Ruda (Duke University, USA)

• Sabrina Duda (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

• Shai Sabbah (Hebrew University, Israel)

• Yunmin Wu (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany)

  
  Sponsor presentations:

• 3Brain

• MaxWell Biosystems

17:50—19:45 Poster session I

• Posters presentations will be in the 2nd floor poster rooms.
  Check out the ERM2019 online posters
  
  

20:00— Social program:

Löyly restaurant and sauna bar at Helsinki waterfront

Friday, September 13

9:00—10:25 Session IV: Novel methods in visual neuroscience

• 9:00 - 9:05 Chair: Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• 9:05 - 9:35 Keynote: Botond Roska (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland)
  Title: The human retina

• 9:35 - 10:00 Valentina Emiliani (Vision Insitut / CNRS, France)
  Title: Holographic manipulation of visual circuits

• 10:00 - 10:25 Alexander Mathis (Harvard University, USA)
  Title: DeepLabCut: a deep learning tool for fast, robust, and efficient 3D pose estimation

  
  

10:25—10:55 Coffee

10:55—12:45 Session V: Cones and color vision (Ragnar granit session)

• 10:55 - 11:00 Chair: Kristian Donner (University of Helsinki)

• 11:00 - 11:30 Keynote: Austin Roorda (UC Berkeley, USA)
  Title: Hacking the human visual system

• 11:30 - 11:55 Michael Do (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  Title: High-fidelity signal propagation through foveal cones

• 11:55 - 12:20 Katrin Franke (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Title: Chromatic processing in the mouse retina

• 12:20 - 12:45 Tom Baden (University of Sussex, UK)
  Title: Zebrafish colour vision and natural light
  

12:45—13:45 Lunch

13:45—15:35 Session VI: Retinal circuits I

• 13:45 - 13:50 Chair: Leon Lagnado (University of Sussex, UK)

• 13:50 - 14:20 Keynote: Fred Rieke (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
  Title: Retinal coding of natural inputs

• 14:20 - 14:45 Keisuke Yonehara (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  Title: Visual motion processing from retina to visual cortical areas in mice

• 14:45 - 15:10 Wei Wei (University of Chicago, USA)
  Title: A dynamic retinal circuit for context-dependent motion processing

• 15:10 - 15:35 Olivier Marre (Institut de la Vision, France)
  Title: All-optical interrogation of a direction selective retinal circuit by holographic wave front shaping
  

15:35—16:05 Coffee

16:05—17:10 Short talks and quickfire Session II

• 16:05 - 16:10 Chair: Christian Puller (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

• 16:10 - 16:25 Or Shemesh (MIT, USA)
  Title: Reading out and manipulating neural circuits at single-cell resolution

• 16:25 - 16:40 Wei Li (NIH, USA)
  Title: An essential optic role of mitochondria in cone photoreceptors

  
  Quickfire presentations:

• Juan Angueyra (NIH, USA)

• Filip Janiak (University of Sussex, UK)

• Saad Idrees (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• Jillian Goetz (Northwestern University, USA)

• Tom Boissonnet (EMBL, Italy)

• Rebekah Warwick (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

• Elaine Orendorff (Sorbonne Université, France)
  
  Sponsor presentation:

• Sensapex
  Title: Boost multi-patching with automated pipette cleaning

17:15—19:15 Poster session II

• Posters presentations will be in the 2nd floor poster rooms.
  Check out the ERM2019 online posters
  
  

19:30—20:00 Boats to the dinner

20:00— Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place at the Restaurant Saaristo located on the Klippan island. The dinner will feature the artist Emilianne.

Saturday, September 14

9:00—10:50 Session VII: Beyond the retina

• 9:00 - 9:05 Chair: Paul Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)

• 9:05 - 9:35 Keynote: Herwig Baier (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany)
  Title: Gone hunting – Visuomotor circuits for prey capture behavior in zebrafish

• 9:35 - 10:00 Chinfei Chen (Harvard, USA)
  Title: Convergence of the Retinogeniculate Circuit

• 10:00 - 10:25 Maarten Kamermans (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Title: Nystagmus in patients with CSNB originates from synchronously firing retinal ganglion cells

• 10:25 - 10:50 Norma Kühn (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders, Belgium)
  Title: Local integration of retinal inputs in wide-field neurons of the superior colliculus
  
  

10:50—11:20 Coffee

11:20—13:10 Session VIII: Retinal circuits II

• 11:20 - 11:25 Chair: William Grimes (NINDS/NIH, USA)

• 11:25 - 11:55 Keynote: Thomas Euler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Title: Dendritic integration in mouse retinal ganglion cells

• 11:55 - 12:20 Josh Singer (University of Maryland, USA)
  Title: Anatomical and physiological analysis of novel retinal circuits

• 12:20 - 12:45 Jeffrey Diamond (NIH, USA)
  Title: A novel (primary?) rod pathway in the mouse retina

• 12:45 - 13:10 Greg Field (Duke University, USA)
  Title: Meta-Mosaics of the Mammalian Retina

  
  

13:10—14:10 Lunch

14:10—15:10 Young investigator award & Business meeting