Friday, April 7, 2017

13:05 - 14:30 - Session 1 - Selected Poster Presentations - 8 abstracts to be selected

14:30 - 15:00 - Keynote Lecture - Learning from the zebrafish: regeneration of the retina is possible - but how does it work?

15:45 - 17:25 - Session 2 - Modifying disease processes

15:45 - 16:10 - Personalized therapeutic strategies for patients with retinitis pigmentosa

16:10 - 16:35 - The role of microRNAs in the human retina

16:35 - 17:00 - Long non-coding RNA in development and disease

17:00 - 17:25 - Targeting cGMP-signaling in inherited retinal degeneration

19:00 - 20:00 - Session 3 - Of men and mice in science

19:00 - 19:30 - Hereditary retinal disorders: A pioneering field in biological research

19:30 - 20:00 - The rd mouse - a long story"

20:00-open    - Swingin' Poster Session

Saturday, April 8, 2017

09:00 - 10:40 - Session 4 - An update on disease mechanisms

09:00 - 09:25 - 12 years after: The search for complement inhibitors in AMD

09:25 - 09:50 - Complement Factor H controls macrophage life-span

09:50 - 10:15 - The NLRP3 inflammasome - new therapeutic target in macular degeneration

10:15 - 10:40 - Mode of action of RdCVF and its origin

11:15 - 12:55 - Session 5 - Innovative approaches to translation

11:15 - 11:40 - Visualization of specific DNA sequences in living mouse embryonic stem cells with a programmable fluorescent CRISPR/Cas system.

11:40 - 12:05 - Regeneration of complex multi-tissue structures

12:05 - 12:30 - CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Surgery to Eliminate Dominant Negative Disease

12:30 - 12:55 - Envisioning a Gene Editing Approach to Treat Inherited Blindness