The event will take place on Wednesday 19^th July 2023 in the Zochonis Building, Lecture Theatre B.

Breaks, food and poster sessions will be located in the Zochonis Hub.

To find the Zochonis Building, please see building no. 60 on the University’s campus map

Key dates

• Abstract submissions open on 10^th April
• Abstract submissions close on 22^nd May

How to submit your abstract

Abstracts for the morning session should be submitted as Word or PDF documents emailed to Karen Hampson (karen.hampson-2@manchester.ac.uk). Please use the subject line ‘MVN abstract submission’. Please indicate your preference for a poster or oral presentation. The final decision on the mode of presentation will be made by the scientific programme committee.

Please follow the instructions below to ensure that your abstract is submitted correctly. All submissions should include:

• abstract title – limited to 20 words;
• the names of the authors, with the presenting author indicated;
• a brief affiliation of each author.

The text of each abstract is limited to a total of 250 words and should include the following sections.

• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Significance
• A figure illustrating the main findings (optional)

There will be prizes of £100 for both the best oral presentation and the best poster presentation of the morning session. Please consider the multidisciplinary nature of the audience to ensure that your abstract and oral or poster presentation is accessible to everyone.

Poster presentations will be in A0 portrait format.

The Manchester Vision Network is pleased to welcome nominations for the annual award for the most outstanding research output from a researcher working within the Network. The award of £250 is open to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and research fellows. The research output will usually be in the form of a published academic paper, but other equivalent outputs will be considered. The Award made in 2023 will be for outputs published in the 2022 calendar year. 

Nominations for the award can be made by the researcher themselves, or by a colleague on their behalf. The nomination should include a copy of the paper or other output, plus a short commentary describing the particular contribution of the nominee, the reasons for the output being particularly significant, and where the work fits within the career progression of the nominee.

Please send nominations to chris.dickinson@manchester.ac.uk by 19^th May 2023. The winner will be notified by 19^th June 2023 and will be required to deliver a keynote lecture at the MVN Annual Meeting on 19^th July 2023.   

About Professor Janus Kulikowski

The annual award is named in honour of Professor Janus Kulikowski, an internationally renowned vision scientist who spent much of his career working in Manchester. Beginning in what was then the Department of Ophthalmic Optics at UMIST, through to his continuing research activity, despite his ‘retirement’ in 2002, in the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry.

Professor Kulikowski helped to put Manchester Vision Sciences on the world stage. He is most famous for contributing to the understanding of how the brain analyses spatial information. He used animal models, human electrophysiology, and psychophysics to explain how the retina packages visual information for analysis by different regions of the visual brain.

He has published more than 250 papers, 17 of which have over 100 citations, and in total have accumulated over 7,000 citations.

Learn more about Professor Kulikowski:

• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar

All attendees should register for this free event via Eventbrite.

The meeting will start at 09:00 and close at 17:30 on 19^th July 2023.

MVN Annual Research Showcase and Networking Event July 19th 2023[PDF]