Friday, April 04, 2025

15:00 – 15:05 Welcome remarks Franz Badura (Amberg, Germany)

15:05 – 15:45 Keynote lecture Anand Swaroop (Bethesda, USA) Re-examining genetics and therapeutic paradigms of retinal and macular degeneration: looking back but moving forward

15:45 – 16:25 Coffee break with scientific chit-chat

16:25 – 17:45 SESSION 1 Selected poster presentations
Eight abstracts to be selected

17:45 Dinner

19:00 – 19:30 EVENING LECTURE Björn Schumacher (Köln, Germany), Aspects of aging

19:30 – Open Swingin’ poster session

Saturday, April 05, 2025

09:00 – 10:30 SESSION 2 Retinal metabolism in focus

09:00 – 09:30 Francois Paquet-Durand (Tübingen, Germany), Fuel for vision: Evidence for anaplerotic metabolism in retinal photoreceptors

09:30 – 10:00 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk (Irvine, USA) Targeting aging membranes in AMD

10:00 – 10:30 Michael Schumacher (Paris, France), Neurosteroids: their potential for neuroprotection and as biomarkers of neuronal injury

10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 3 Signaling in retinal health and disease

11:15 – 11:45 Peter Wieghofer (Augsburg, Germany), Hyalocyte origin, structure, and imaging

11:45 – 12:15 Christoph Ulmer (Basel, Switzerland), Canaboinoid receptor signaling in the retina and treatment options

12:15 – 12:45 Rosa Cristina Fernndes (Coimbra, Portugal), Extracellular vesicles as key drivers in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 4 Complex retinal diseases

14:00 – 14:30 Markus Karlstetter (Basel, Switzerland), Pathways and prospects in intermediate AMD target discovery

14:30 – 15:00 Christina Kiel (Regensburg, Germany), Genetic risk scores in AMD

15:00 – 15:30 Laurenz Pauleikhoff (Hamburg, Germany), Understanding Central Serous Chorioretinopathy pathophysiology through its risk factors

15:30 – 15:33 Concluding remarks 

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Deadline: April 02, 2025