PROGRAM

Program Committee

Margaret Donohue	Bogdan Dreher
Ian Morgan	Srini Srinivasan
David Vaney	Sagar Vidyasagar

Monday - Tuesday am - Tuesday pm - Wednesday am - Wednesday pm

Monday 27 January 1997

4.00 pm-6.00 pm Registration
Foyer, Research School of Biological Sciences

Posters: Installed in adjoining marquee at this time and must be no more than 1m wide and 1.5m deep.

6.00 pm-8.00 pm Reception and welcome to the Festschrift

PLENARY LECTURES

8.00 pm Speaker: Ted Jones
Reflections on the neurone doctrine
Chairperson: Ann Sefton

9.00 pm Speaker: Horace Barlow
Title to be announced
Chairperson: Brian Cleland

Tuesday 28 January

MORNING SESSION: ASSOCIATION CORTEX

POSTERS for FORUM DISCUSSION:

Michael Arbib
Gyorgy Benedek
Cobie Brinkman
Corinna Darian Smith
Ross Day
Bogdan Dreher
Josef Rauschecker
Maurice Ptito
Marcello Rosa
Mark Rowe
Geoff Stuart

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PROGRAMME

9.00 am-9.30 am LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Jean Bullier
Functional interactions between visual cortical areas in the monkey
Chairperson: Mark Rowe

9.30 am-10.30 am POSTER VIEWING IN MARQUEE
(with morning tea)

10.30 am-11.30 am POSTER FORUM

Coodinators:
Ross Day
Michael Arbib
Josef Rauschecker

11.30 am-12.00 am LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Michael Goldberg
Parietal mechanisms for visuo-spatial attention in the monkey
Chairperson: Cobie Brinkman

12.00 am-1.30 pm LUNCH

Tuesday 28 January

AFTERNOON SESSION: PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX

POSTERS for FORUM DISCUSSION:

Liam Burke
David Crewther
Ulf Eysel
Mike Friedlander
Barbara Gillam
Ted Jones
Takuji Kasamatsu
Janus Kulikowski
John Morley
Bertam Payne
Peter Somogyi
Kaisuke Toyama
Jonathan Victor
T.R.(Sagar) Vidyasagar

-oOo-

PROGRAMME

1.30 pm-2.00 pm LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Jon Kaas
Theories of visual cortex organisation
Chairperson: Barbara Gillam

2.00 pm-2.30 pm LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Kevan Martin
Processing in cortical micro circuits: The new synthesis.
Chairperson: Kaisuke Toyama

2.30 pm-3.30 pm POSTER VIEWING IN MARQUEE
(with afternoon tea)

3.30 pm-4.30 pm POSTER FORUM

Coordinators:
Mike Friedlander
Peter Somogyi
Ulf Eisel

4.45 pm-5.45 pm PLENARY LECTURE

Speaker: Bob Wurtz
(Title to be announced)
Chairperson: Liam Burke

Wednesday 29 January

MORNING SESSION: RETINA AND ITS PROJECTIONS

POSTERS for FORUM DISCUSSION:

Val Alder
David Burr
Jon Currie
Tom Fitzgibbon
Yutaka Fukuda
Susan Galvin
Peter Hoffmann
Abbie Hughes
Bill Jagger
Paul Martin
Ian Morgan
Richard Masland
Ken Naka
David Pow
Larry Thibos
David Vaney

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PROGRAMME

9.00 am-9.30 am LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Anita Hendrickson
Development of the primate outer retina
Chairperson: Peter Hoffmann

9.30 am-10.30 am POSTER VIEWING IN MARQUEE
(with morning tea)

10.30am-11.30 am POSTER FORUM

Coodinators:
Abbie Hughes
Jon Currie
Yutaka Fukuda

11.30 am-12.00 am LECTURE IN ROBERSON THEATRE

Speaker: Heinz Wassle
Vision in darkness: the rod circuit of the mammalian retina
Chairperson: Larry Thibos

12.00 am-1.30 pm LUNCH

Wednesday 29 January

AFTERNOON SESSION:

INTEGRATIVE VISUAL FUNCTION: DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOUR

POSTERS for FORUM DISCUSSION:

Sheila Crewther
Laurence Garey
Alison Harman
Adrian Horridge
Kuno Kirschfeld
Sally McFadden
Mike Mustari
Ken Sanderson
M.V.(Srini) Srinivasan
Bill Stell
Rick Van Sluyters
Margaret Wong-Riley
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PROGRAMME

1.30 pm-2.00 pm LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Jack Pettigrew
Comparative physiology of binocular vision
Chairperson: Laurence Garey

2.00 pm-2.30 pm LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

Speaker: Richard Mark
Developmment of visual connections to the colliculus and cortex in mammals: mechanisms in common.
Chairperson: Sally McFadden

2.30 pm-3.30 pm POSTER VIEWING IN MARQUEE
(with afternoon tea)

3.30 pm-4.30 pm POSTER FORUM:

Rick Van Sluyters
Margaret Wong-Riley
Kuno Kirschfeld

4.45 pm-5.45 pm

PUBLIC LECTURE IN ROBERTSON THEATRE

(Sponsored by the Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre, University of Queensland)

Speaker: V.S.(Rama) Ramachandran
(Title to be announced)
Chairperson: Peter Bishop

8.00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER

ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN POSTER FORUMS:

Max Bennett
PeterBishop
David Blest
Brian Boycott
Tailoi Chan-Ling
Brian Cleland
Barry Cole
Ian Darian-Smith
David Dvorak
Sally Firth
Alan Freeman
Marko Golcich
Maurice Ptito
Shigang He.
Dexter Irvine
Marta Janaky
John Nathan
Sharon Oleskevich
Ann Sefton
Allan Snyder
Jyothi Thalluri
Richard Vickery
Elzbieta Wieniawa-Narkiewicz
Brian Wimborne
Johannas Zanker
Joachim Zeil
Pam Megaw
Ted Maddess
Kathy Rose
Malini Devadas

Other Events

Just a reminder that the Festschrift in Canberra will be followed by a Boden Research Conference, entitled "Retinal Biology and Other Diseases". This will take place at the Lake Crackenback Resort in the Snowy Mountains, on 30 January-2 February 1997. A flyer providing information on this event is enclosed. After this, there is the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society in Newcastle, from 3-5 February 1997. For information on this meeting, contact the ANS Secretary, Dr Phil Marley, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia. Phone: (0)3 9344 6893, Fax: (0)3 9347 1452. Those of you coming from afar might wish to take the opportunity to attend all of these meetings.