Congratulations to Dr Bao Nguyen and Dr Kate Filia 👏 The Franklin Women’s Innovative Carer’s Scholarships acknowledges the impact of unpaid caring responsibilities, to prevent the loss of talented women in scientific research in Australia 👉 unimelb.me/3LubcTa

Wonderful plenary lecture by Tim Fricke at #ODSC2023 taking us through the history of Optometry and how we can learn from this to shape out future Australian College of Optometry National Vision Research Institute

They’re heavily promoted. Your optometrist may even prescribe them – but what happens when we look at the evidence? 👀 👓 From sunlight, to LEDs and the screens of digital devices, blue light is actually all around us, writes Prof Laura Downie (University of Melbourne). theconversation.com/do-blue-light-…

Which sense would you be most scared of losing? 👀 Most people will say their sense of sight. 🎧 Listen: Ockham's Razor with Dr @FloraHui: A peek into the future of glaucoma treatment. unimelb.me/3RBIh3c

Lovely to have Dr Jaoquin Araya from Iniversidad Santo Tomas Santiago Chile spend time with us UniMelbDOVS fascinating work on altered ganglion cell responses in Alzheimers disease

This week, we celebrate the Class of 2013, the final undergraduate optometry graduates! Memories of engaging lectures and unique attire in the clinic make for a nostalgic look back. UniMelb MDHS

Our 2013 alumni shared their nostalgic moments! They were the cohort of the Bachelor's program - making their year even more special!

Thank you to our international speaker Dr Daniel Sun Harvard Medical School this week at our UniMelbDOVS Seminar, for an exciting “journey of a thousand stars” and told us about the life of astrocytes in optic nerves ✨👁️ UniMelb MDHS #visionresearch #astrocytes #opticnerve

Congratulations 👏🍾 Jiaheng Xie | 谢嘉恒 an submitting your thesis on gene-environment interactions in myopia development. What a journey! Amazing effort Patricia Jusuf Patrick Goodbourn

Thank you to Prof Paul Stoddart from Swinburne University of Technology for his exciting talk on using nanoparticles to stimulate retinal ganglion cells. He also delivered the hottest seminar of our series… so hot that we had to evacuate and call the fire brigade🔥🚒

UniMelbDOVS is very proud of its Honours and Masters of Biomedical Science students who did a fabulous job at their final talks today! Very proud 👏

Applications open for fully-funded Joint PhD Program between @UnimelbMDHS and @engunimelb at the @unimelb linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Discover the latest evidence and explore how retinal imaging can serve as a promising biomarker for Parkinson's Disease this Wed 15 Nov, 5:30pm via Teams.

Wish I were there! Fun discussion on ocular electrophysiology with masters students at Manipal Academy of Higher Education Uni UniMelbDOVS

It’s a TRAMAGANZA! We are setup and ready to go at booth #3 Melbourne Connect TRAM Program

Thank you Graeme Clark Institute and Franklin Women for the opportunity to participate in the TRAM Program Runway accelerator program, culminating yesterday with the massive Tramaganza event 🤩 representing UniMelbDOVS UniMelb MDHS UnimelbBME @engunimelb

Register now for the University of Melbourne School of Health Sciences Graduate Research Colloquium. Hear from the future superstars of: 👂Audiology 🗣️Speech Pathology 👩‍⚕️Nursing 👀Optometry and Vision Sciences 💪Physiotherapy 🤝Social Work go.unimelb.edu.au/3fks UniMelb MDHS Professor Catherine Granger

TRAMaganza summed up in 4 pics? University of Melbourne UniMelb MDHS UniMelbDOVS Science at Melbourne Faculty of Arts @engunimelb Graeme Clark Institute

DOVS received 3 awards @ the #MSHS end of year event! Congrats Jia Jia Lek (Sustained Excellence in L&T), Jonathan Ng (L&T Achievement Award) & the Parkinson’s Beyeomarker team DrChristineNguyen Bang Bui Dr Vickie Wong Dr Bao Nguyen (Interdisciplinary Research Innovation Award)! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

As 2023 draws to a close, we want to thank our country placement providers - Kay Street Eyecare, Yarra Junction Optical, and Glenn Howell Optometrist. Your support has given our students a full scope of practice experience and made them great optometrists!