Research Seminars
The College of Optometry provides several seminars per semester that cover new developments in vision science.
Speakers in this seminar series are those working in vision-related research, and may be from Ohio State's College of Optometry, from other departments around Ohio State, or from institutions throughout the world.
The purpose of the seminars is to provide students, faculty and other interested parties with an awareness of the types of questions that are being studied in vision science, the methods being used to study these questions, the backgrounds of the researchers studying the questions, the results of recent research, the clinical application of these results, and the unanswered questions.
Unless noted otherwise, seminars take place in Hamilton Hall Room 074, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on select Tuesdays.
Spring 2026 Seminars
January 13
Liujiang Song, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Principal Investigator, Gene Therapy Institute
College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
January 20
David Brainard, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
February 3
Andy Fischer, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
March 3
Lauren Schneider, OD, MS
Graduate Program in Vision Science
PhD Candidate, College of Optometry, The Ohio State University
March 24
Salil Lachke, PhD
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
April 7
Andy Hartwick, OD, PhD
Associate Professor
College of Optometry, The Ohio State University
April 14
Anna Lubertozzi, BS
Molecular Genetics Graduate Program
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University