<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-x_x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dear all: It is an absolute pleasure  for me to share that the 34</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><sup class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup></span><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> International Pupil Colloquium (IPC) will be held at the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India from the<span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><b class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0">20</b></span><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><sup class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup></span><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> t</span></span><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">o 22</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><sup class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0">nd</sup></span><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></b><span class="gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted2 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted3" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0">July 2024</b><span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span>(Saturday through Monday). This physical meeting is focused on all aspects of research and technology development pertaining to the pupils and is expected to see delegates from a wide range of disciplines including clinical ophthalmology/optometry/neurology/emergency medicine/sports medicine, visual neuroscience, optics, cognitive science and developmental biology. This meeting started off as an informal discussion between Prof. Larry Stark at MIT and Profs. Otto Lowenstein and Irene Loewenfeld at New York in the early 1980's (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pupilcolloq/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://sites.google.com/site/pupilcolloq/history</a>). Since then, this meeting has grown leaps and bounds, travelled all over the world, ending up in Murcia, Spain in 2019 (<a href="https://lo.um.es/33rd-international-pupil-colloquium/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk646529" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://lo.um.es/33rd-international-pupil-colloquium/</a>). After a COVID-19 related hiatus of 3 years, the 2024 edition of this meeting will be held at the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.<span class="gmail-x_x_ContentPasted1" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;display:inline"> </span>The core group is starting to work on the conference website, scientific program and associated activities and you will hear more from us in the next 2 - 3 week's time. In the meantime, please block your dates to attend this meeting.</span></span></div><div class="gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-x_x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted2 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted3" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-x_x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_x_ContentPasted1 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted0 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted2 gmail-x_x_ContentPasted3" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Attached is the one-page flyer for this meeting that can be disseminated to your colleagues/students.</span></span></div><div class="gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18.6667px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br aria-hidden="true"></span></font></div><div class="gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-x_x_x_elementToProof gmail-x_x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font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