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Department of Ophthalmology

Vision Research Symposium 2022 Program Agenda

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All times are CST.
Program is subject to change.

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022

Time Topic/Session Speaker
8:45 a.m. Welcome & Introduction

Yingbin Fu, Ph.D., Wei Li, Ph.D.

Session 1: Immune cells in retinal development and diseases
Moderator: Elizabeth Zuniga-Sanchez, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
8:55 – 9:20 a.m. Modulation of mononuclear phagocytes in retinal disease Thomas Langmann
University of Cologne, Germany 
9:20 – 9:45 a.m. Neural-immune interactions in the developing retina Melanie Samuel
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9:45 – 10:10 a.m. Microglial pathways mediating neuron elimination during retinal development Monica Vetter
University of Utah
10:10 – 10:20 a.m. Break
Session 2: Glaucoma
Moderator: Jijie Pang, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
10:20 – 10:45 a.m. Single cell transcriptome analysis of regenerating RGCs reveals potent glaucoma neural repair genes Yang Hu
Stanford University
10:45 – 11:10 a.m. Retinal vasculature changes induced by elevated eye pressure in mice Benjamin J. Frankfort
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11:10 - 12:10 p.m.

Keynote Address
Moderator: Yingbin Fu, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û

The right stuff? Assessing intrinsic properties of human pluripotent stem cell-derived photoreceptors
David M. Gamm
University of Wisconsin
(Introduced by J. Timothy Stout, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û)
12:10 - 12:40 p.m. Lunch Break
Session 3: Cornea
Moderator: Wei Li, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
12:40-1:05 p.m. The importance of being innervated: intraepithelial corneal nerves and their role in corneal homeostasis MaryAnn Stepp
George Washington University
1:05-1:30 p.m.

Linking the gut microbiome to ocular surface disease in Sjögren Syndrome

Cintia S. de Paiva
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1:30 – 1:40 p.m. Break

Session 4: Ocular angiogenesis
Moderator: Cintia S. de Paiva, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û

1:40 – 2:05 p.m. Mechanistic insight and therapeutic strategies for drug resistance in age-related macular degeneration Yingbin Fu
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2:05 – 2:30 p.m. Ligandomics and disease-targeted anti-angiogenic therapy for ocular diseases Wei Li
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2:30 – 3:20 p.m.

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Rinki Ratna Priya, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û

Single cell omics technologies in the eye

Rui Chen
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Seth Blackshaw
Johns Hopkins University

Karthik Shekhar
University of California, Berkeley

3:20 – 3:30 p.m. Break

Session 5: Retinal wiring
Moderator: Zheng Jiang, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û

3:30 – 3:55 p.m.

Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of retinal wiring

Elizabeth Zuniga-Sanchez
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3:55 – 4:20 p.m. Developmental plasticity of rod photoreceptor wiring and its implications for vision restoration Kirill Martemyanov
UF Scripps Biomedical Research
4:20 – 4:45 p.m.

Electrical and chemical synaptic integration in retinal processing

Jimmy Zhou
Yale University

4:45 – 5:10 p.m. New tools and approaches to study the daily plasticity and function of the rod/cone gap junction Christophe P. Ribelayga
University of Houston
5:10 – 6:10 p.m. Gather Town Social