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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Greetings!</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">We are currently seeking applications for a
<b class="">Summer Vision Course: “Vision: A platform for linking circuits, perception and behavior”</b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">June 15 - 29, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Application deadline: March 31, 2017</span></b><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Course co-directed and organized by Andrew Huberman, Farran Briggs, and Onkar Dhande.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">We have an amazing lineup of speakers for the 2017 course to add to an already terrific history of this course.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Information about the course, including speaker list, schedule, and application instructions, is available on the course website:</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class=""><a href="https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-VISION&year=17" class=""><span style="color:#386EFF" class="">https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-VISION&year=17</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Please note that actual costs per student will be offset by funds from NEI and additional sponsors. Course registration scholarships are available for US and international
student attendees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Please forward this email to students and postdocs who may be interested in the course.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Thank you!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Farran, Andy, and Onkar<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">Course description (from website):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">The purpose of this course is to bring together students and faculty for in depth and high level discussions of modern approaches for probing how specific cell types
and circuits give rise to defined categories of perception and action. It is also designed to address novel strategies aimed at overcoming diseases that compromise sensory function.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">The visual system is the most widely studied sensory modality. Recently, three major shifts have occurred in the field of neuroscience. First, owing to the large
array of genetic techniques available in mice and the relative ease of imaging and recording from the cortex of small rodents, the mouse visual system has become a premiere venue for attacking the fundamental unresolved question of how specific cells and circuits
relate to visual performance at the receptive field and whole-animal level. Second, genetic and viral methods have evolved to the point where neurophysiologists can directly probe the role of defined circuits in species such as macaque monkeys, thus bridging
the mechanism-cognition gap. Third, the field of visual neuroscience is rapidly paving the way for widespread clinical application of stem cell, gene therapy and prosthetic devices to restore sensory function in humans.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 60, 204);" class="">The time is ripe to build on the classic paradigms and discoveries of visual system structure, function and disease, in order to achieve a deep, mechanistic understanding
of how receptive fields are organized and filter sensory information, how that information is handled at progressively higher levels of neural processing, and how different circuits can induce defined categories of percepts and behaviors in the healthy and
diseased brain.</span></p>
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<div class="">Assistant Professor, Physiology and Neurobiology</div>
<div class="">Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth</div>
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