Translational Research into Retinal Diseases
Contents
Chair
Prof. Bernhard H.F. Weber
Head of Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Vice President of the German Society of Human Genetics
Vice President of the German Society of Human Genetics
Speaker(s)
Prof. Ulrich Kellner
Rare Retinal Disease Center, AugenZentrum Siegburg, MVZ Augenärztliches Diagnostik- und Therapiecentrum Siegburg GmbH, Siegburg, Germany.
Dr. Erik de Vrieze
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Dr. Patricia Berber
Insitute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Prof. Arthur A. B. Bergen
Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands.
Prof. Zi-Bing Jin
Director of Beijing Insitute of Ophthalmology, Vice president of Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Magdalene J. Seiler, Ph.D.
Department Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, United States.
Prof. Margaret M. DeAngelis
Department of Ophthalmology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States.
Dr. Rinki Ratnapriya
Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States.
Programme
Programme
- Time(Germany Time)
- Speaker
- Topic
- 16:00 - 16:05 PM
- Bernhard H.F. Weber
- Welcoming Speech
- 16:05 - 16:10 PM
- JTGG Editorial Office
- Journal Introduction
- 16:10 - 16:25 PM
- Ulrich Kellner
- Widefield retinal imaging in inherited retinal dystrophies
- 16:25 - 16:40 PM
- Erik de Vrieze
- Modeling multi-exon skipping therapy for USH2A-associated RP in zebrafish
- 16:40 - 16:55 PM
- Patricia Berber
- Retinal Organoid Photoreceptor Outer Segments: From Preservation to Application
- 16:55 - 17:10 PM
- Arthur A. B. Bergen
- Tweeking of retinal organoid models to enable disease-specific therapeutic research
- 17:10 - 17:25 PM
- Zi-Bing Jin
- A new tool for rising biological therapies of retinal diseases based on patient-specific retinal organoids
- 17:25 - 17:40 PM
- Magdalene J. Seiler.
- Transplantation of stem cell derived retinal organoids to repair vision
- 17:40 - 17:55 PM
- Margaret M. DeAngelis
- The novel findings on age-related macular degeneration and epigenetics/gene expression
- 17:55 - 18:10 PM
- Rinki Ratnapriya
- Connecting AMD-GWAS findings to causal variants, genes and disease mechanisms
- 18:10 - 18:15 PM
- Bernhard H.F. Weber
- Concluding Comments
