Program

Thursday, September 24

6:00pm Welcome Reception, David and Ilene Flaum Eye Institute Atrium (venue maps)
Tours of Adaptive Optics Labs, Center for Visual Science

Friday, September 25

8:30-9:00am Registration

9:00-9:15am Welcome

9:15-11:15am Invited Session I: Optoretinography and Panel Discussion

Optical imaging of activity in the living eye offers a promising alternative to the electroretinogram that is capable of linking retinal function to structural information. The imaging modalities being explored are largely label free and often provide data on the cellular scale. This session will highlight new advances in optoretinography ranging from the origin of functional signals, to new technical developments and applications on the path to clinical translation.

Speakers

• Optoretinography: From Retinal Physiology to Clinical Biomarkers
  Ram Sabesan, University of Washington

• Optoretinography and Beyond: Imaging Neural and Vascular Function in the Human Retina
  Pedro Mecê, Institut Langevin, Paris

• Techniques and applications of optoretinography in combination with adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy
  Jessica Morgan, University of Pennsylvania

• Differential Coherence as an Optoretinographic Tool
  Lawrence Sincich, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:20am–1:30pm Posters and Coffee

1:30-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-4:00pm Contributed Session I

Speakers

• AO-SLO photopic optoretinography with silent substitution flicker
  Sirui Liu, University of Oxford

• Longitudinal AOSLO in vivo imaging reveals RGC dendritic remodeling in a mouse photoreceptor degeneration model
  Soumaya Belhadj, University of Pittsburgh

• The Relationship Between Acuity and Cone Density Decline Across the Foveola
  Krishnaveni Nagarajan, University of Rochester

• Frequency selective post-microsaccadic perceptual enhancements in the fovea
  Zoe Stearns, University of Rochester

• Translating fixation stability measurements from lab to practice: Comparing clinical devices to a laboratory eye-tracker
  Riley Wiland, University of Houston

4:00-4:30pm Coffee and Snacks

4:30-5:00pm Business Meeting

5:00-6:00pm Tillyer Award Lecture: Eero Simoncelli, Flatiron Institute and New York University

6:15pm Networking Reception at Grappa (Hilton Garden Inn)

Saturday, September 26

9:00-11:00am Invited Session II: Chromatic Mechanisms in Myopia and Panel Discussion

Emerging evidence seems to support that emmetropization may be critically dependent on chromatic mechanisms, such as environmental spectral content, chromatic aberrations of the eye, and wavelength dependent retinal signaling. Topics in this session will span animal models, human clinical studies, retinal and choroidal responses to chromatic cues, and novel optical interventions for myopia control.

Speakers

• Temporal Constraints on Antagonistic Chromatic and Achromatic Mechanisms in Emmetropization
  Frances Rucker, New England College of Optometry

• Developing chromatic signals as a therapy for myopia control
  Safal Khanal, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration as a Cue for Detecting the Sign of Defocus
  Geunyoung Yoon, University of Houston

• How could the eye use chromatic cues to guide refractive development?
  Timothy Gawne, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:00-11:45am Coffee with a Mentor

11:45am–1:15pm Contributed Session II

Speakers

• Altered retinal light response in retinoic acid-induced myopic mice
  Sabina Poudel, University of Rochester

• Task engagement modulates BOLD responses in early visual cortex
  Philipp Kreyenmeier, National Institutes of Health

• Convexity biases persist in stereoscopically viewed structure-from-motion surfaces
  Ryne Choi, York University

• The role of visuomotor contingency in stereoscopic depth perception
  Jie Z. Wang, University of Rochester

• Perceptual inference of object motion and depth: how cueing one variable influences estimation of the other
  Vitaly Lerner, University of Rochester

• High-Precision Stereoacuity Assessment in VR Using STRIVE (STereo Random-dot Interactive Virtual Environment)
  Triya Belani, Rochester Institute of Technology

1:15-2:15pm Lunch

2:15-4:15pm Invited Session III: Multisensory Cue Integration in Real and Virtual Environments and Panel Discussion

Perception depends on the integration of multiple sensory cues, including visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive signals, each with different reliability across contexts. While these processes are well studied under natural viewing conditions, emerging technologies such as virtual and augmented reality introduce new spatiotemporal constraints, cue conflicts, and display limitations that challenge established models of cue integration. This session brings together work on multisensory and visual cue integration across real and simulated environments, with applications ranging from depth perception and binocular vision to navigation, memory, and clinical populations. By combining insights from basic research and display engineering, we aim to understand how the brain weights and recalibrates sensory information, and how these principles can guide the design of next-generation visual and multisensory systems.

Speakers

• Multisensory cue use during navigation in virtual reality: What role does vision play?
  Sarah Creem-Regehr, The University of Utah

• Multisensory Integration Across Real and Simulated Environments: Applications to Aging and Clinical Populations
  Jennifer Campos, University Health Network

• Title TBA
  Duje Tadin, University of Rochester

• Characterizing perceptual performance bottlenecks in virtual environments
  Jovan Kemp, NYU Abu Dhabi

4:15-4:30pm Coffee and Snacks

4:30-5:30pm Boynton Lecture: A metric for color space: Beating the curse of dimensionality
Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen University

6:00pm Eastman Museum Reception

• Appetizers and opportunity to tour the George Eastman Museum

• Carving and pasta stations

Sunday, September 27

9:00-11:00am Invited Session IV: Visual Development and Plasticity Across Health and Disease and Panel discussion

Vision is shaped by development but remains plastic throughout life. Across early disorders such as cortical visual impairment and later-onset retinal and cortical damage, the visual system reorganizes in ways that may limit functional recovery. This session brings together work on typical and atypical development, neural plasticity, and behavioral outcomes. By integrating basic and translational perspectives, we aim to clarify the mechanisms that shape visual development and plasticity, and to distinguish recovery from compensation.

Speakers

• Adaptive Plasticity After Vision Loss: Perceptual and Oculomotor Reorganization in Macular Degeneration
  Marcello Maniglia, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Developmental Neuroplasticity in Sight Loss and Sight Rescue
  Tessa Dekker, University College London

• Where and how is auditory motion represented within hMT+ in early blindness?
  Woon Ju Park, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Receptive field mapping of the developing visual streams and the role of visuospatial attention in childhood
  Jesse Gomez, Princeton University

11:00-11:30am Coffee and Snacks

11:30am–1:00pm Contributed Session III

Speakers

• Reverse Accommodation in Eyes Implanted with Standard Monofocal IOLs
  Austin Roorda, University of Waterloo

• Laser-written diffractive soft contact lenses for reversing ocular longitudinal chromatic aberration
  Len Zheleznyak, Clerio Vision & University of Rochester

• Counterintuitively Enhanced Masking Performance in Adults Born Preterm
  Zahide Pamir, Bilkent University

• Visual Metacognition Intact Before and After Training in Occipital Stroke Patients
  Matthew Cavanaugh, University of Rochester

• Adaptive optics imaging reveals transport dynamics of mitochondria in ganglion cell axons
  Derek Power, University of Rochester

• Adaptive optics reveals rare subset of immune cells that initiate uveitis
  Kosha Dholakia, University of Rochester

1:00-1:15pm Presentation of Young Investigator Awards and Thanks

1:15pm Farewell Lunch