| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Future Directions of Corneal Research |
| Discussion Leaders: James V. Jester (University of California, Irvine) and Rajamani Lakshminarayanan (Singapore Eye Research Institute) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ilene K. Gipson (Schepens Eye Research Institute)
"The Ocular Surface - A Marvelous System for Study of Mucosal Protection" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Corneal Development, Inflammation and Pathogenesis |
| Discussion Leaders: Andrew Quantock (Cardiff University, Wales) and Chien-Chia Su (National Taiwan University Hospital) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Carlo Iomini (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
"Epithelial Injury Activates Long-Range Signals of Ciliogenesis Required for Corneal Tissue Repair"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | James Foster (Johns Hopkins University)
"Recovery of the Keratocyte Phenotype In Vitro is Mediated Through Glucose Response Signaling"
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| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Mindy Call (University of Cincinnati)
"Regulation of Lipid Synthesis and Development of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction"
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| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
"Identification and Characterization of microRNAs Expressed in Limbal Compartment of Normal and Diabetic Human Corneas by Deep Sequencing"
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| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Ricardo Frausto (Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCL)
"Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Corneal Endothelium: Insights into Gene Regulation of the Corneal Endothelial Dystrophies"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Bioengineering, Biomimetics, Regenerative Medicine and Future Therapeutics |
| Discussion Leaders: Noriko Koizumi (Doshisha University, Japan) and Laura Grisanti (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Nick Di Girolamo (University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Tracing the Fate of Limbal Epithelial Progenitors and their Progeny in the Murine Cornea"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Jian Wu (University of Pittsburgh School)
"Bioengineering Human Corneal Stromal Tissue: Integration of Patterned Silk Substrates and Adult Stem Cells"
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| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Geraint Parfitt (University of California Irvine)
"Characterization of Mouse Meibomian Gland Label-Retaining Cells by Immunofluorescent Computed Tomography (ICT)"
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| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Emi Inagaki (Keio University Hospital, Japan)
"Differentiation of Neural Crest-Derived Corneal Stroma Stem Cells into Corneal Keratocytes In Vivo"
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| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Fatima Syed-Picard (University of Pittsburgh)
"Dental Pulp Stem Cells for Corneal Stroma Regeneration"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:40 pm | Technical Session: How to Write a Competitive Grant |
| Discussion Leaders: Jerry Y. Niederkorn (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) and Martin Minns (Boston University) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:55 pm | George A. McKie (National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health) |
| 1:55 pm - 2:05 pm | Discussion |
| 2:05 pm - 2:30 pm | Mary Ann Stepp (The George Washington University)
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| 2:30 pm - 2:40 pm | Discussion |
| 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
