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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026
📅 Sep 24–27, 2026
📍 University of Rochester, NY (@cvsuor.bsky.social)
A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience.
#OpticaFVM #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #Vision #perception #eye #ophthalmology
audience view of Austin Roorda's talk
Group picture of UMN folks
Gordon Legge with his former trainees Denis Pelli and Susana Chung
And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.
Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for a photo with FVM organizing chair Alex Wade
Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for the YIA
Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉
Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"
Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"
It’s Five Illusions time at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting
(@optica-fvm.bsky.social) at the University of Minnesota
FiveIllusions.github.io
#OpticaFVM
👁️✨ Congrats to Susana Marcos, 2025 Tillyer Award winner!
Honored for transformative work on how the eye’s optics shape vision—from cornea to photoreceptors.
Catch her keynote at #OpticaFVM this October in Minneapolis! www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org
👁️📖 Congrats to Gordon Legge, 2024 Tillyer Award winner, for groundbreaking work in low-vision research and accessibility.
🎤 Catch his talk at #OpticaFVM 2025 in a special session on reading & vision loss.
🔗 www.optica.org/get_involved...
Austin Roorda standing next to instrumentation in his lab at UC Berkeley
🔥 We’re thrilled to announce that adaptive optics trailblazer Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) is the 2025 Boynton Award recipient! 🎉 His AOSLO let us image, stimulate, and track single photoreceptors 🧠👁️
He’ll give the Boynton Lecture at #OpticaFVM, Oct 2–5 @ Univ. Minnesota. Save the date!
Congratulations to the newest members of the @OpticaWorldwide #OpticaFVM Committee! It's bittersweet to say goodbye to our friends @GKAguirre and Jessica Morgan, but we're happy to welcome Arathy Kartha (VS), Will Tuten (VC), and Juliette McGregor (VV)....
@UTAustin Professor Mary Hayhoe giving the Tillyer Award lecture at #OpticaFVM, explaining the surprising fact that humans are able to hike: how the visual system coordinates with movements of the eyes, head, body, and feet to move us safely down the trail.
@Penn Professor David Brainard giving the Tillyer Award lecture at #OpticaFVM, describing http://isetbio.org/ an open source computational model of retinal vision from the visual scene to ganglion cells, with the granularity of single cells and photons. Amazing!
Truly the stuff of science fiction at #OpticaFVM: restoring vision by reprogramming ganglion cells, DNA, percepts, and the visual cortex. Thanks Juliette McGregor (@CVSUoR), Rachel Huckfeldt (@harvardmed), @ProfBeyeler, and @DanielYoshor.
Four incredible scientists trying to solve one of the most puzzling and pressing issues in vision--the myopia pandemic--right before our eyes at #OpticaFVM. Thanks @LisaOstrin (@UHouston), Christine Wildsoet (@UCBerkeley), David Troilo (@sunyopt), and Frank Schaeffel (@uni_tue)!
Andrew Stockman founded #OpticaFVM 21 years ago and came back tonight to give the much deserved Boynton Lecture. Cheers Andrew!
