Instructions for Platform Presentations

• All platform presentations must be in digital format; PowerPoint preferred. If you propose to use any other format it is your responsibility to check that the necessary software is available.
• Video files preferably should be in MP3 format.
• Mac Users. Your file will be compatible with the Facility PC, (a) as long as the file has an identifier at the end (eg ‘.ppt’); (b) if you use ‘tiff’ files for images (NOT jpg or pct). We recommend testing your presentation on a PC before you finalize it.
• We ask that you bring your presentation to the AV personnel on memory stick or CD before commencement of the morning or afternoon sessions on the day of your presentation, so that the presentation can be loaded onto the main computer. Why? It saves time! Setting up your laptop can take 2-3 minutes; if everyone in a session used laptops, it could run 15 minutes over time on this basis alone.
• Please identify yourself to the Chairperson prior to commencement of your session.
• Please keep to the time allocated. Each speaker is allocated 12 minutes, including questions.
  
  

Instructions for Poster Presentations

• Free standing poster boards will be provided. Posters should be no greater than 1.0 m wide and 1.5 m long (accommodates a standard A0 poster of 84 x 119 cm).
• Velcro dots will be supplied for delegates to affix their posters to their designated boards.
• All delegates should affix their posters to the assigned poster boards between 8:30-9:30am on the day of presentation. Delegates are asked to remove their posters following the end of their poster session.
  

Scientific Program 2008

PLENARY LECTURES:

Peter Bishop Lecture
Roger Truscott (Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney):"Presbyopia. Emerging from a blur."

Fred Hollows Lecture
Jamie Craig (Ophthalmology, Flinders University): "Clinical, genomic and proteomic insights into glaucoma pathogenesis."

ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science Lecture
William Stell (Surgery and Ophthalmology, University of Calgary, Canada and Director, Research Programs, The Foundation Fighting Blindness – Canada): "The synaptic ribbon: an historical thread. Ribbon synapses, L-type Ca2+-channels, and congenital stationary night blindness."

 

SYMPOSIA:

• Lens development and cataract formation. Convenor: John McAvoy
• Genes and environment in complex eye diseases. Convenor: Paul Baird
• Understanding the complexity of the primary visual cortex . Convenor: Michael Ibbotson