The Molecular Basis of Colour Vision and its Variation Among Vertebrate Animals
Wed, Jan 22
|Virtual Event
Discover the fascinating science behind how we perceive color, from the molecular magic in our eyes to the extraordinary visual systems of animals that see more colors—or in dimmer light—than humans, and uncover groundbreaking research on the visual evolution of frogs and ancient turtles.
Time & Location
Jan 22, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST
Virtual Event
About the event
Abstract
Many of us take for granted our ability to detect and perceive a vast number of colours but perhaps never consider how colour vision is accomplished.
In this talk, Dr Schott will explain how light is detected in the eye at the molecular level and how signals from different “colours” (wavelengths) of light can be separately detected and compared for us to perceive colour variation.
He will explore the colour vision systems of different vertebrate animal groups, including animals that can see more colours than we can, and animals that can detect colour variation at low light levels when we are colour blind.
He will also share some of the ongoing research in his lab related to the evolution of visual systems in frogs that have lost the ability to hear and sing, and visual evolution in the two sub-orders of turtles, side-neck and hidden-neck, which diverged almost 200…