<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:black">The abstract deadline for the OSA's 2019
Fall Vision Meeting has been extended for two weeks, until July 5, 2019.
We hope you will consider submitting a 250-word abstract, using the
following submission link:</span></div><div><span style="color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/</a></span></div><div><span style="color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:black"> We look forward to seeing many of you in Washington, D.C.
in September! Details from the original announcement are copied below.<br></span></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Local Organizer Representative, Laura Spencer, The Optical Society (OSA)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-il">Stacey</span> Choi, Chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Vicki Volbrecht, OSA Division Chair (<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> and Color)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">-----------------------------<br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Original announcement:<br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The 19th Annual
Optical Society <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Meeting</span> is scheduled to take place at the
Headquarters of the Optical Society of America in Washington, DC, from
the 19th to the 22nd of September, 2019. Details
about the <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">meeting</span> can be found at the following link:</span> <a href="http://www.osa.org/vision" target="_blank">
www.osa.org/<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">vision</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The abstract submission is now open. Please submit your 250-word abstract at the following site by June 21, 2019:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/submit_papers/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The online registration will open soon. Registration details can be found here:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/registration/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/registration/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The early-bird
registration deadline is 13 August, 2019. Information about registration
and hotels are available on the <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">meeting</span> website at
</span><a href="https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/" target="_blank">https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/osa_fall_vision_meeting/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Finally, as in
previous years, attendees of the <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Meeting</span> will receive one
day of complimentary attendance at OSA’s Frontier in Optics (FiO)
<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">meeting</span> (Sept 16-19 in DC) and vice versa. For details
please see </span><a href="http://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/about-fio-ls/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">https://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/about-fio-ls/</span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">This year’s
<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Meeting</span> includes a keynote lecture by this year's Tillyer Award winner, 5 invited sessions, 3
contributed talk sessions, and contributed poster presentations.
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://lo.um.es/member/pablo-artal/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Professor Pablo Artal</span></a><span style="color:black">
from the University of Murcia, Spain will be presented
with the 2019 Tillyer Award for distinguished work in the field of
<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">vision</span> and his Tillyer lecture will kick off the <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Fall</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Meeting</span> at 4
pm, Thursday September 19th. The 2019 Boynton Lecturer will be
</span><a href="https://www.uab.edu/medicine/ophthalmology/faculty/curcio" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Professor Christine Curcio</span></a><span style="color:black"> from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. However, due to schedule conflict,
the Boynton lecture will be presented next year in 2020.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">The invited
talk sessions include: (1) Aberrations and <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">vision</span>: the limits of visual
performance studied with adaptive optics; (2) Biological development of
the visual system; (3) Understanding color;
(4) Non-visual effects of light in development and disease; and (5)
Perceptual learning and video games: new ways to learn. Confirmed
invited speakers for these talk sessions include:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.sunyopt.edu/education/academics/faculty/emeritus-faculty/benjamin-backus" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Ben Backus</span></a><span style="color:black">, Vivid <span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.unige.ch/fapse/brainlearning/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Daphne Bavelier</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Geneva</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://irp.nih.gov/pi/bevil-conway" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Bevil Conway</span></a><span style="color:black">, NIH</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uab.edu/optometry/home/people/faculty/timothy-gawne" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Timothy Gawne</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Alabama, Birmingham</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://cnl.berkeley.edu/people/jesse-gomez/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Jesse Gomez</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars/directory-of-pew-scholars/2014/robert-j-johnston" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Robert Johnston</span></a><span style="color:black">,
Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://psychology.osu.edu/people/lindsey.43" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Del Lindsey</span></a><span style="color:black">, Ohio State University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://www.vision.csic.es/People/Personal%20Web%20Pages/Susana%20Marcos.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Susana Marcos</span></a><span style="color:black">, Instituto de Optico, CSIC</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/26772783-anna-majewska" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Ania Majewska</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Rochester</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Anna Matynia, University of California, Los Angeles</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/?id=14131" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Maria Olkkonen</span></a><span style="color:black">, Durham University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/1627/Shadab+A+Rahman+PhD+MPH" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Shadab A. Rahman</span></a><span style="color:black">, Brigham and Women’s Hospital</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.uakron.edu/biology/faculty-staff/detail.dot?identity=1114699" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Jordan Renna</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Akron</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Aaron Seitz</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Riverside</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-smithson" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Hannah Smithson</span></a><span style="color:black">, Oxford University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/michael-terman-phd" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Michael Terman</span></a><span style="color:black">, Columbia University</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://optometry.berkeley.edu/people/william-tuten-phd/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">William S. Tuten</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of California, Berkeley</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/22230140-geunyoung-yoon" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Geunyoung Yoon</span></a><span style="color:black">, University of Rochester</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://retinafoundation.org/studies/binocular-vision-research/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(79,129,189);text-decoration:none">Krista Kelly</span></a><span style="color:black">, Retina Foundation of the Southwest</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">We look forward to welcoming you in Washington, DC.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Local Organizer Representative, Laura Spencer, The Optical Society (OSA)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-il">Stacey</span> Choi, Chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of OSA FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Vicki Volbrecht, OSA Division Chair (<span class="gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Vision</span> and Color)</span></p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ravi Sankar Jonnal, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology<br>University of California at Davis<br>+1 812 391 0588 (cell)<br>+1 916 734 5839 (office)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>