<div dir="ltr"><div>The early-bird registration deadline for the 2019 OSA Fall Vision Meeting has been extended until 19 August, 2019. Register soon to benefit from the reduced registration fee. We look forward to seeing you in Washington, D.C. in September!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,<br></div><div><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-il"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-il">Stacey</span> Choi, Chair of <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span> FVM Planning Committee</span></div><div><div>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span> FVM Planning Committee</span></p></div></div><div><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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Fall</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">meeting</span> can be found at the following link:</span> <a href="http://www.osa.org/vision" target="_blank">
www.<span class="gmail-il">osa</span>.org/<span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">vision</span></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.<span class="gmail-il">osa</span>.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.<span class="gmail-il">osa</span>.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_3000246182175388026gmail-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.<span class="gmail-il">osa</span>.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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Fall</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il">Meeting</span> will receive one
day of complimentary attendance at <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span>’s Frontier in Optics (FiO)
<span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Fall</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">vision</span></span> and his Tillyer lecture will kick off the <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Fall</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">vision</span></span>: the limits of <span class="gmail-il">visual</span>
performance studied with adaptive optics; (2) Biological development of
the <span class="gmail-il">visual</span> system; (3) Understanding color;
(4) Non-<span class="gmail-il">visual</span> 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_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></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 (<span class="gmail-il">OSA</span>)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black"><span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-il">Stacey</span> Choi, Chair of <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span> FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="color:black">Ravi Jonnal, Co-chair of <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span> FVM Planning Committee</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Vicki Volbrecht, <span class="gmail-il">OSA</span> Division Chair (<span class="gmail-m_3000246182175388026gmail-m_-9127686468165034134gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Vision</span></span> and Color)</span></p></div><div><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></div>