<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:9pt" id="m_-2068394335977906713gmail-docs-internal-guid-38aa3452-7fff-003c-ebcf-9e68abb137ab"><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">Greetings, vision community! </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">We are writing to inform you that </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the abstract deadline for the 2022 </span><a href="https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/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:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Optica Fall Vision Meeting</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> has been extended until 14 August</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"> and to urge you to </span><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">submit an abstract</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">. The meeting welcomes abstracts about any aspect of vision research, as can be seen in </span><a href="https://jov.arvojournals.org/issues.aspx?issueid=938581#issueid=938581" 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">last year’s abstracts, published in the Journal of Vision</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">The meeting will take place at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York from the 20th to the 23nd of October, 2022. Details can be found at </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">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 from two Edgar D. Tillyer Award winners–David Brainard (2021) and Mary Hayhoe (2022)--and this year’s Boynton Lecturer, Andrew Stockman. The meeting will also include 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;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><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">Neural network models of the visual system</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><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">Vision restoration</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><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">Studies of the visual cortex with sub-millimeter resolution</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><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 eye as a window to systemic and neurodegenerative health</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;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"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.26;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt" role="presentation"><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">Myopia and myopia control.</span></p></li></ol><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">We look forward to seeing you in Rochester, New York this fall! Please direct questions about the meeting program to </span><a href="mailto:rjonnal@gmail.com" 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">Ravi Jonnal</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"> and questions about travel/lodging/logistics to </span><a href="mailto:jschall3@ur.rochester.edu" 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">Jesse Schallek</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">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><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>