RETINAL DEGENERATION
Illuminating Molecular Complexities of the Retina
Friday, April 7th 2006
13:15 Eberhart Zrenner/Tübingen: Opening Remarks
13:25 Christina Fasser/Retina International: “From the Patient’s View”
13:40 Frank G. Holz/Bonn: “Visualization and Diagnosis of Retinal Disease – Advances in Imaging Technology”
14:00-15:30 Session 1: The Connecting Cilium and Neurodegeneration
Chairman: Frank G. Holz
- Uwe Wolfrum/Mainz: “Photoreceptor Cilium and Retinal Degeneration”
- Ronald Roepman/Nijmegen: “Getting a GRIP on RPGR – Dissection of the Protein Complex unveils its Importance for Retina Function”
- Christine Petit/Paris: “Hereditary Deafness: From Genes to Pathophysiology”
15:30-16:00 Coffee break and scientific chitchat
16:00-17:30 Session 2: Cone-rod-interaction
Chairman: Bernhard H. F. Weber
- Susanne Kohl/Tübingen: “Genetic Complexity of Cone and Cone-Rod Dystrophies”
- Thierry Leveillard/Paris: “Rod-derived Cone Viability Factor”
- Mathias Seeliger/Tübingen: “Functional Rod Pathways in Mice dissected with Electroretinography”
18:00 Joint Ceremonial Dinner
19:00-Open End Postersession
Saturday, April 8th 2006
08:30-10:30 Session 3: Signalling Processes in the Retina
Chairman: Olaf Strauß
- Ulrike Janssen-Bienhold/Oldenburg: “Diversity of the Connexins in Retinal Network Signalling”
- Katja Rillich/Leipzig: “Neuro-Glial Crosstalk in the Retina”
- Silke Haverkamp/Frankfurt: “Bipolar Cells of the Mouse Retina: Types and Plasticity”
- Katharina Wycisk/Zürich: “Structural and Functional Abnormalities of Retinal Ribbon Synapses due to Cacna2d4 Mutation”
- Christina Zeitz/Zürich: “Night Blindness-associated Mutations in the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 6 show a Distinctive Scotopic 15-Hz Flicker ERG and abolish Protein Trafficking”
10:30 Coffee break and scientific chitchat
11:00-13:00 Session 4: The Biology of Neovascularization
Chairman: Klaus Rüther
- Ernst Tamm/Regensburg: “Dissecting the Function of the Norrie Protein”
- Hans-Peter Hammes/Mannheim-Heidelberg: “Neovascularization of Retinal Vessels”
- Olaf Strauß/Hamburg: “The Role of the RPE Cells in Neovascularization of Choroidal Vessels”
- Andreas Bringmann/Leipzig: “Osmotic Swelling of Glial Cells in the Diabetic Rat Retina: Implications for the Development of Retinal Edema”
13:00 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Session 5: Novel Aspects of AMD Etiology
Chairman: Gareth McKay
- Claudia Keilhauer/Würzburg: “AMD Phenotypes and Aspects of Recruitment of Cases/Controls for Association Studies”
- Lars Fritsche/Regensburg: “Susceptibility Factors in AMD”
- Peter Zipfel/Jena: “The Role of the Complement System in AMD”
- Akshay Anand/Chandigarh: “The Animal Models of AMD – a Critical Appraisal”
15:45 Farewell Coffee