“From Light Perception to Vision: Seeking for Retinal Function and Evolution”
Workshop students
Hotel Uthgra, Los Cocos, Provincia de Córdoba, Córdoba-Argentina, November 10-13, 2007.
Pre-meeting course of the Annual Meeting of the Argentinean Society for Research in Neuroscience (SAN).
Postgraduate Course, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Supported by IBRO, CAEN-ISN and SECyT-UNC.
The Workshop/Graduate Course “From Light Perception to Vision: eeking for Retinal Function and Evolution” was held in Los Cocos-Córdoba, Argentina, November 10 and 13, 2007. Thirty-five PhD students and young researchers were selected for the course, coming from several provinces of Argentina, Mexico and Cuba. Faculty included lecturers from Argentina, the USA and France.
Several topics about the retina were covered in lectures and discussions with students, who were also encouraged to present their own research projects. The workshop included: 1) the organization and development of the retina, 2) the photic mechanisms driven by the retina including non-visual and visual pathways acting on the CNS and regulating the physiology of the organism, 3) the evolution of the eye and its different photoreceptor cells involving classical and non-canonical photoreceptors, photopigments and photocascades; 4) retinal disorders and pathologies; 5) the organization and function of the pathway from eye to visual cortex; 6) trophic factors and cells in retinal development and survival; and 7) diverse methodologies to study retinal function.
Tutorial lectures were delivered by David Hicks (University Pasteur-France), Ignacio Provencio (University of Virginia-USA), Michael Stryker (University of California, San Francisco, USA), Andrew Tsin (University of Texas, USA), Sandra Bacman (University of Miami, USA), Beatriz Caputto, Mario Guido, Pedro Panzetta, Agata Carpentieri, MA Contin and MC Sanchez (University of Córdoba, UNC, Argentina, Jose Luna (Fundación VER, Cordoba), Luis Politi, Nora Rotstein and Gabriela Salvador (South University, Argentina), Ruth Rosenstein and MP Faillace (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Angela Suburo (University Austral, Argentina) and Hugo Diaz-Fajreldines (Instituto Neurociencias, Córdoba).
Workshop faculty
Following the course, a symposium on different aspects of retinal research and the opening lecture on “Mechanisms of Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex” by Dr Michael Stryker (UCSF, USA) opened the Argentine Society for Research in Neuroscience (SAN) meeting. The course was coordinated by Mario Guido (UNC), together with scientific and local committees.
Mario E. Guido
Secretary of Science and Technology
Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas
CIQUIBIC (CONICET)-Departamento de Quimica Biologica
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Ciudad Universitaria,
Córdoba, Argentina
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