<div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt" id="m_2886944326573686971gmail-docs-internal-guid-18f40d52-7fff-d1bd-e9e3-5f6f4a85aa43"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2022 </span><a href="https://www.optica.org/en-us/home/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Optica</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Fall Vision Meeting is scheduled to take place at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York from the 20th to the 23nd of October, 2022. Details about the meeting can be found at the following link: </span><a href="https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission is now open. Please submit your abstract at the following site by July 31, 2022:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><a href="https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2022-meeting/2022-submissions" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2022-meeting/2022-submissions</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online registration will open soon, and will be announced via the same channels.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As in previous years, attendees of the Fall Vision Meeting will receive one day of complimentary attendance at OSA’s  Frontier in Optics (FiO) meeting (16-20 October at the University of Rochester) and vice versa. For details please see </span><a href="https://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s Fall Vision Meeting includes keynote lectures by winners of the Tillyer Award and Boynton Award, five sessions of invited talks, three sessions of contributed talks, and contributed posters. The themes of the five invited sessions are: </span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margi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e;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Optica Fall Vision Meeting Planning Committee</span></p></div><div><br><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><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</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/ravi.jonnal" target="_blank">https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/ravi.jonnal</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">+1 812 391 0588 (cell)<br>+1 916 734 5839 (office)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>