New publication from Rick Libby: MKK4 and MKK7 control degeneration of retinal ganglion cell somas and axons after glaucoma-relevant injury. doi.org/10.1038/s414... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Yuhao Zhu: Modeling and Exploiting the Time Course of Chromatic Adaptation for Display Power Optimizations in Virtual Reality. doi.org/10.1145/3763... #URochesterResearch

NEW from Jannick Rolland: Design and experimental validation of a high-efficiency multi-zone metasurface waveguide in-coupler in Optical Materials Express. doi.org/10.1364/OME.... #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social

OUT NOW in Current Biology: Non-uniform signal pooling across the foveola. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #URochesterResearch @aplabur.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

New research from @fiebelkornian.bsky.social shows that brief high-frequency brain bursts help distant areas communicate during attention. Their strength predicts accuracy, forming cue and target networks that guide fast, flexible behavior. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #URochesterResearch

New paper from Alex Levin: Glaucoma Management in Sturge-Weber Syndrome Using the Delphi Process, published in Ophthalmology Glaucoma. doi.org/10.1016/j.og... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

1of2) New research from Krystel Huxlin in J. Physiology shows that TMS to early visual cortex and area MT increased BOLD signal strength in these regions and disrupted motion direction judgments...

Leveraging neuroscience, optics, and healthcare, URochester researchers are at the forefront of understanding vision loss and restoring eyesight. www.rochester.edu/newscenter/e... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

NEW from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social Complex PTSD among persons with serious mental illness receiving community mental health services. doi.org/10.1080/0963... #URochesterResearch

OUT NOW from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social Changes in the visual system can help detect and treat psychosis earlier. Eye and brain vision tests are low-cost tools that may guide diagnosis, track treatment, and improve care. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #URochesterResearch

#cvstoday December 3 at 1:30pm, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall BCS Thesis Defense: Howard Li, Graduate Student (Advisor: Michele Rucci) Encoding of visual space via eye movements www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

1of2) OUT NOW from Krystel Huxlin: A new non-invasive, visual pathway-specific, brain stimulation method was found to enhance restoration of visual motion perception in occipital stroke patients.

Welcome Barry Silverstein to @urochester.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social; Anticipating great synergy between #ARVR Center & @cvsuor.bsky.social; with several @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social #RochesterOptics faculty in the leadership; www.rochester.edu/newscenter/b...

New paper from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social in Schizophrenia: Spontaneous head movements during virtual clinical interviews help predict 12-months clinical outcomes in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #URochesterResearch

NEW from Jannick Rolland in BOE: Nonlinear optical microscopy with an obscuration-free, freeform reflective objective. doi.org/10.1364/BOE.... #URochesterResearch @uofrbme.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Rachel Wozniak: Combination Therapy of Cefiderocol and Polymyxin B Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Keratitis Isolates In Vitro. doi.org/10.1167/tvst... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

@zvrlab.bsky.social contributed to a paper in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging: Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei are Associated with Post-Trauma Psychopathology. #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

NEW research from @johnfoxe.bsky.social shows that CLN3 disease causes vision, language, & thinking loss. In mouse studies, brain responses differed by sex & age, showing MMN as a useful marker to track Batten disease progress. doi.org/10.1186/s116... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

NEW research from Alex Levin: Noonan syndrome, often caused by pathogenic variants in the PTPN11 gene, may be associated with anomalous large optic nerve cups that may be mistaken for glaucoma. doi.org/10.4103/ojo.... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

#cvstoday November 13, 10:00-11:15 am CVS Core Open House You are invited to meet the CVS engineering team, tour the workshop, and see some examples of what the CVS core engineers could create for you! RSVP required, see: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

#cvstoday November 12 at 12pm, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall BCS Thesis Defense: Shizhao Liu, Graduate Student (Advisors: Adam Snyder and Ralf Haefner) Task-relevant feedback modulation on sensory neural response in macaque V4 www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

Using EEG #URochesterResearch discovered male mice with Batten disease showed early auditory problems that improved with age, while female mice had persistent difficulties #IDDRC #RareDisease #neuroscience Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s116... @johnfoxe.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

#cvstoday Nov 10 at 12pm, 1400 Wegmans Hall/Zoom (See Slack for link) CS Seminar Series: Praneeth Chakravarthula, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rethinking visual computing systems in the age of AI: From computational optics to intelligent displays www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

OUT NOW from Ben Suarez-Jimenez in NeuroImage: Image-Based Meta- and Mega-Analysis (IBMMA): A Unified Framework for Large-Scale, Multi-Site, Neuroimaging Data Analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #URochesterResearch @zvrlab.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social

Position open at RIT for a tenure-track assistant professor in Neuroscience with expertise in visual neuroscience, computational neuroscience, or neurobiology. More: tinyurl.com/RITNeuroFacu...

NEW from Alex Levin: This study of children under 8 years old found COVID-19 did not cause retinal bleeding within 28 days after infection. Retinal hemorrhage appears to be very unlikely secondary to COVID-19. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

#cvstoday October 31, 2025 9:00 am, CVS Large Conference Room, MC G-4104 CVS Research Talk: Pablo Artal, Laboratorio de Óptica de la Universidad de Murcia Two-Photon Infrared Vision www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

NEW from Alex Levin: The study showed 2 siblings with Cousin syndrome who have the new finding of a congenital cranial dysinnervation disorder (CCDD) presenting with eyes in the turned out sand down fixed position with ptosis (droopy eyelids). doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #URochesterResearch

Congratulations to Susana Marcos, the David R. Williams Director of the @cvsuor.bsky.social and Nicholas George Professor in Optics, on this tremendous accomplishment! #URochesterResearch @urochester.bsky.social

#cvstoday Oct 29 at Noon 269 Meliora Hall/Zoom (check Slack for link) BCS Lunch Talk: Yelin Dong, Graduate Student (Advisor: Greg DeAngelis) A biologically constrained model of area MT neurons performs joint inference of object motion in the world and depth www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

Talk this evening: ROC Optica Speaker Series - Rushnan Islam, The Institute of Optics When: Oct 28 at 7:00 PM Where: Goergen 101 Ultrafast Laser Micromachining in Dry Contact Lenses and Silk Fibroin Hydrogels: Exploring Mass Production of Vision Correctors and Biocompatible Custom Corneal Implants

1of2) New from the ARIA lab in eLife: This article shows that it is possible to optogenetically activate single retinal ganglion cells in vivo in monkeys. This is an important step toward causal tests of the role of specific ganglion cell types in visual perception...

Congrats to @cvsuor.bsky.social PhD students Rushnan Islam #KnoxLab #RochesterOptics & Krishnaveni Nagarayan @aplabur.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social, Winners of Best Pitch & Best Poster cash Award at #CVSRetreat2025 🏆🏅💵. Well done!!

Afternoon poster session at the #cvsretreat2025

The #cvsretreat2025 is underway! The morning session begins with an introductory presentation by our director, Susana Marcos @marcoslabur.bsky.social

#cvstoday October 24, 8:30 am-4:45 pm, Feldman Ballroom, Frederick Douglass Commons CVS Retreat: See full agenda on our website www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

📢❗🚨 CVS Members: don't miss the CVS Retreat TOMORROW at 8:30AM held in the Feldman Ballroom. See agenda and more details: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

Please join us in welcoming 3 new faculty members to CVS: Benjamin Chin from RIT, Alex Kotelsky from Bausch + Lomb, and Raja Narayanan from @flaumeye.bsky.social www.cvs.rochester.edu/about/news.h...

🎉 CVS grad student Claire Sun was awarded a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). Recipients receive a travel stipend to offset the costs of attending the SfN Neuroscience 2025 meeting. @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social

OUT NOW from CVS faculty Sara Patterson, David DiLoreto, & Juliette McGregor: Inner Limiting Membrane Peel Extends In Vivo Calcium Imaging of Retinal Ganglion Cell Activity Beyond the Fovea in Non-Human Primate in IOVS. doi.org/10.1167/iovs... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

NEW editorial from Steven Feldon in Ophthalmology: A Call to Action and Roadmap for Improving Emergency Treatment of Ophthalmic Trauma in the United States. #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

New article from @johnfoxe.bsky.social in Autism Research: A Comparative Trial of Occupational Therapy Using Ayres Sensory Integration and Applied Behavior Analysis Interventions for Autistic Children doi.org/10.1002/aur.... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Steven Silverstein, who was awarded the Joseph Zubin Award for lifetime contributions to psychopathology research from the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He received the award at the annual meeting on September 27 in Los Angeles. psychopathology.org/annual-meeti...

#cvstoday October 13 at 3:30 pm, Auditorium of Class '62, URMC G-9425 Taubman Dean's Lecture Series: Itzhak Fried, University of California, Los Angeles Mending the Mind: A Journey from Single Neurons to Prosthetics for Memory www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/about/de...

‼️ Today is the deadline to register for the CVS Retreat. See the agenda with links to register on our website: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

#cvstoday October 8, 2:30-4:00 pm, K207 Auditorium, URMC 2-6408 CVS Research Talks: Benjamin Chin, RIT Alexander Kotelsky, Bausch & Lomb Raja Narayanan, Ophthalmology, URMC www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

TOMORROW at 2:30PM: Don't miss the upcoming CVS Research talks by Benjamin Chin, Alex Kotelsky, and Raja Narayanan. More info: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

New paper from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social Identifying individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis using a battery of tasks sensitive to symptom mechanisms. doi.org/10.1038/s413... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

Congratulations to Susana Marcos @marcoslabur.bsky.social receiving the Tillyer Award @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting in #minneapolis Introduced by Steve Burns, her mentor from postdoctoral days. @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

New research from Ania Majewska shows that PFHxA, a chemical found in pregnant women and breast milk, may affect brain development. In mice, it elicited subtle changes in brain cells in ways that suggest possible risks to both males and females. doi.org/10.3390/ijms... #URochesterResearch