Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Frontiers in Neuronal Cell Fate and Connectivity
Discussion Leaders: Robert Johnston (Johns Hopkins University, United States) and Carol Schuurmans (Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada)
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm
Claude Desplan (New York University, United States)
"Deterministic and Stochastic Specification of Neural Fates in the Drosophila Visual System"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm
Magdalena Goetz (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
"Novel Mechanisms of Neurogenesis and Neural Repair"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Retinal Patterning and Cell Fate Specification
Discussion Leaders: Monica Vetter (University of Utah, United States) and Marek Mlodzik (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Sujata Rao (Cleveland Clinic, United States)
"Role of the Circadian Clock in Retinal Neurovascular Development"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Makoto Sato (Kanazawa University, Japan)
"Tiling Mechanisms of the Drosophila Compound Eye"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Monnier Philippe (University Health Network, Canada)
"Blood Borne ATP Regulates CNS Neuron Polarity"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Anna La Torre (University of California, Davis, United States)
"Sonic Hedgehog in Optic Cup Patterning"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Michel Cayouette (Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Canada)
"A Non-Canonical Planar Cell Polarity Pathway Triggered by Light Organizes Cone Photoreceptors in the Mouse Retina"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Kristen Koenig (Harvard University / University of Texas, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Non-Neuronal Cells and Tissues
Discussion Leader: Ryan MacDonald (University College London, United Kingdom)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Sabine Fuhrmann (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States)
"Investigation of Effects of Hippo Pathway Modulation on RPE Injury"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:45 pm
Ruby Shalom-Feuerstein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
"Eyes on Stem Cells: Deciphering Limbal Stem Cell Dynamics, Regulation and Repair"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Jessica Treisman (NYU Langone Health, United States)
"A Fly's Eye View of Corneal Development"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
Peter Lwigale (Rice University, United States)
"Signaling from Periocular Neural Crest Cells Regulates Neurovascular Patterning in the Anterior Eye During Development"
7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Building, Remodelling and Repairing Retinal Circuity
Discussion Leader: Melanie Samuel (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Enrica Strettoi (Neuroscience Institute, Italian National Research Council (IN-CNR), Italy)
"Bystander Effects and Inflammatory Responses in Inherited Retinal Degeneration"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Marla Feller (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"A Role for Retinal Waves in the Establishment of Direction Selective Circuits in the Retina"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Mathias Wernet (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
"The Synaptic Pathways Providing Visual Inputs to the Navigation Center in the Drosophila Central Brain"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Lisa Goodrich (Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Development"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Kirill Martemyanov (UF Scripps, University of Florida, United States)
"Molecular Principles Guiding Synaptic Connectivity of Photoreceptors"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Central Visual Development and Sensory Integration
Discussion Leader: Julie Lefebvre (Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
Thomas Clandinin (Stanford University, United States)
"How Does Functional Diversity Emerge Across Visual Processing Pathways?"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:55 pm
Lucas Cheadle (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
"Non-Canonical Roles of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells in Visual Circuit Refinement and Remodeling"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm
Tim Czopka (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"How the Form and Function of Retino-Tectal Circuitry is Shaped by Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Genome Wide Approaches in Retinal Development Disease and Aging
Discussion Leader: Brian Clark (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
Cagla Eroglu (Duke University Medical Center, United States)
"Astrocyte-Microglia Signaling Controls Developmental Synapse Remodeling in the Visual Cortex"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Seth Blackshaw (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States)
"Gene Regulatory Networks Controlling Vertebrate Retinal Aging"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:15 am
Sui Wang (Stanford University, United States)
"Protecting the Retina from Diabetes-Induced Damage"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Vikki Weake (Purdue University, United States)
"Age-Dependent Epigenetic Changes in the Retina Alter the CIrcadian Transcriptome"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Jens Rister (University of Massachusetts Boston, United States)
"A Mechanism that Stabilizes Vitamin A-Deficient and Rhodopsin-Mutant Drosophila Photoreceptors"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Tim Cherry (Seattle Children's/University of Washington, United States)
"Non-Coding Mechanisms of Retinal Development and Disease"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Development and Dysfunction of the Primate Retina
Discussion Leader: Rod Bremner (Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Yi-Rong Peng (UCLA, United States)
"Molecular Characterization of Foveal and Peripheral Cell Types in Human and Non-Human Primate Retinas: From Development to Evolution"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:45 pm
Majlinda Lako (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
"Spatiotemporal Single Cell Analyses Reveal a Transient Population of Retinal Progenitor Cells in the Ciliary Margin of Developing Human Retina"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Tom Glaser (UC-Davis, United States)
"Homeotic Hotspot in the Human Genome - An Enhancer Trap with Eye and Brain Phenotypes"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
Jason Meyer (Indiana University School of Medicine, United States)
"Retinal Ganglion Cells and Glial Interactions in a Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation"
7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emerging Systems for Studying Visual Development
Discussion Leader: Wei Li (NIH, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Joseph Corbo (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
"Conservation of Retinal Cis -Regulatory Codes Over Half a Billion Years"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Belinda Chang (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Molecular Evolution of Reptile Photoreceptors"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Zuzana Musilova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
"See You in the Dark: Vision in Deep-Sea Fishes and Their Shallow-Water Larvae"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Mark Frye (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"A Tale of Two Visual Systems: Parallel Structural and Functional Pathways for Motion Guided and Feature Guided Behaviors"
11:05 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Todd Oakley (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
"The Rime of Ancient Eyes: Parallel, Convergent, and Path Dependent Evolution"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:50 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:50 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cellular Regeneration, Repair and Stem Cells
Discussion Leader: Kapil Bharti (National Institutes of Health, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Marius Ader (TU Dresden, Germany)
"Transplantation of Human Photoreceptors into Mouse Models of Retinal Degeneration"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:45 pm
David Gamm (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
"M/L Cone Production, Characterization and Enrichment from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Muriel Perron (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France)
"The Ambivalent Role of Inflammation in Retinal Regeneration"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
Karl Wahlin (UC San Diego, United States)
"Exploring Retinal Cell Reprogramming Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Michiko Mandai (Kobe City Eye Hospital, Japan)
"Donor Photoreceptor Connectivity in Vivo"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure