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<div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b class="">Functional Vision and Accessibility conference, San Francisco, </b></span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15.333333015441895px;"><b class="">Aug
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">To celebrate our 60th anniversary, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is hosting a hybrid conference on Functional Vision and Accessibility, a 2-day international workshop on translational research to address
visual impairment and accessibility . The conference will bring together stakeholders (those experiencing vision loss and blindness) and those doing translational research (scientists, clinicians, and inventors) to address long-standing and emerging vision
problems with promising new approaches. <span class="" style="background-color: white;"> Currently we have a limited number of travel grants for trainees to attend. We are waiting to find out whether we get funding for more travel grants. </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">More details of the meeting can be found at </span><a href="http://www.ski.org/FVAconference" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">www.ski.org/FVAconference</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">. Our
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Understanding the role of eye movements in active visual perception and their potential as a biomarker for various clinical conditions</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Jacob Yates (UC Berkeley), Jorge Otero-Millan (UcBerkeley), Esther Gonzalez ( U Toronto), Christy Sheehy (CLight Technologies )</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Understanding the role of the maldevelopment of vergence and accommodation on impaired binocular function and its functional consequences</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Paul Gamlin (U Alabama Birmingham), Jenny Read (U Newcastle), Rowan Candy (U Indiana, Bloomington), Ewa Niechwiej_Szwedo ( U Waterloo)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Evaluating retinal and cortical visual function in health and disease</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Omar Mahroo (University College London), Ravi Jonnal (UC Davis), <span class="c9dxtc">Yoichiro Masuda (Jikei University),</span>Holly Bridge (Oxford University)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Brain plasticity after partial or complete loss of functional vision</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Mriganka Sur (MIT) Wu Li (Beijing Normal University), Lotfi Merabet (Mass. Eye & Ear), Ione Fine (University of Washington)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Using emerging tools such as artificial intelligence and neural networks to understand human vision and visual dysfunction, and using AI and data science to complement human expertise</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Miguel Eckstein (UC Santa Barbara) Frank Tong (Vanderbilt University), Dan Yamins (Stanford University), Danna Gurari (University of Colorado, Boulder)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Using virtual and augmented reality in visual assessment, binocular training, and navigation</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Ben Backus (Vivid Vision), Brandon Biggs (Georgia Tech), Paul Ravulo (Olin College), Yuhang Zhao (University of Wisconsin, Madison)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">A special session devoted to an in-depth discussion on vision restoration vs. using the remaining senses, in the context of the onset of visual impairment and the populations they serve </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Juliette MacGregor (University of Rochester), Michael Beyeler (UC Santa Barbara), Dan Adams (Neuralink), Josh Miele ((Amazon), Gordon Legge, Univ. Of Minnesota, Sile O'Modhrain (Univ of Michigan), Don Fletcher (Smith-Kettlewell)</span></div>
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<div>Preeti Verghese, PhD<br class="">
Senior Scientist<br class="">
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute<br class="">
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