Zhigang He, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Date: Thursday November 7, 2024
Location: Robbins E301 (In collaboration with Department of Neurosciences)
Time: TBD
Jillian Pearring, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan
Date: Tuesday September 17, 2024
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Konstantin Petrukhin, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmic Science
Columbia University
Date: TBD
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Rajendra S. Apte, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Keynote Speaker at the Annual VSRC Symposium
Novel Insights into Retinal Inflammation and Neurodegeneration
Date: Friday May 31, 2024
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium
Susan Brockerhoff, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Mitochondria and Retinal Disease
Date: Tuesday April 23, 2024
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Jianhai Du, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine
West Virginia University
Metabolic ecosystem in the retina
Date: Tuesday October 3, 2023
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Aparna Lakkaraju, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco
Towards deeper insight into mechanisms and therapeutics for macular degenerations
Date: Tuesday September 19, 2023
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Donald Zack, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins University
Keynote Speaker at the Annual VSRC Symposium
High Content Screening Approaches to Study Retinal Development and Degeneration
Date: Friday May 12, 2023
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium
Robert Molday, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The University of British Columbia, Canada
ABCA4-The ABC Transporter Linked to the Visual Cycle and Stargardt Disease From Structure and Function to Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies
Date: Tuesday April 18, 2023
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Yiannis Koutalos, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Medical University of South Carolina
Origins of lipofuscin in the retina
Date: Tuesday November 1, 2022
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Bo Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Anatomy
University of Texas Medical Branch
CaMKll-mediated neuroprotection and Glia-derived neuroregeneration in vision restoration
Date: Thursday September 15, 2022
Location: Robbins E301 (In collaboration with Department of Neurosciences)
Ula Jurkunas, M.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Keynote Speaker at the Annual VSRC Symposium
New insights into diagnosis and treatment of Fuchs Dystrophy
Date: Friday May 20, 2022
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium
Sheila Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
A not-so silent ion channel in photoreceptor health
Date: Tuesday March 15, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (In collaboration with Department of Pharmacology)
Marie Burns, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
University of California, Davis
Monocyte-derived macrophages in the retina: posers or protagonists
Date: Tuesday March 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (Department of Pharmacology)
David Antonetti, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Kellogg Eye Center
Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Blood-Retinal Barrier Regulation in Diabetic Retinopathy: New Insight and Opportunities
Date: Wednesday February 16, 2022
Time: 8:00 a.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (Ophthalmology Grand Rounds)
Dietmar Fischer, Ph.D.
Chair of Cell Physiology and Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
Promoting axon regeneration in the optic nerve and spinal cord
Date: Thursday December 2, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (In collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Peter Calvert, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Functional compartmentalization of photoreceptor neurons
Date: Tuesday November 16, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Kirill Martemyanov, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience
The Scripps Research Institute
Molecular organization of the photoreceptor synapse
Date: Tuesday April 13, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Sarah Doyle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
School of Medicine Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
TLR2 Recognition of Oxidative Stress-Related DAMPs Drives Retinal Degeneration
Date: Thursday February 11, 2021
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (In collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Janet Sparrow, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmic Science, Pathology and Cell Biology
Columbia University
Shedding light on Vitamin A aldehyde-adducts
Date: Tuesday October 6, 2020
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Vladimir Kefalov, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Washington University
Cellular signaling by a single opsin molecule
Date: Tuesday January 21, 2020
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania
Relationship between RPE lipid homeostasis and metabolic synergy with the neural retina
Date: Tuesday November 12, 2019
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Xin Duan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California San Francisco
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Visual Circuit Wiring
Date: Thursday October 31, 2019
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Carol Mason, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Cell, and Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Science
Columbia University
Wiring the Embryonic Eye to the Brain for Binocular Vision
Date: Thursday May 9, 2019
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Manuela Bartoli, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Augusta University
Monosodium urate and epigenetic regulation of sterile inflammation in the diabetic retina
Date: Tuesday April 16, 2019
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (In Collaboration with the Department of Pathology)
Thomas A. Reh, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Regeneration of functional neurons in the adult mammalian retina
Date: Tuesday March 26, 2019
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Lois Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Improving lipid/glucose metabolism in retinopathy: FGF21
Date: Tuesday December 4, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (In Collaboration with the Department of Pathology)
Cheryl M. Craft, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology & Integrative Anatomical Sciences
University of Southern California
Somewhere over the rainbow…Protecting photoreceptors to maintain high acuity vision
Date: Tuesday November 6, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Joshua Sanes, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Assembling Retinal Circuits: Cell and Synapses
Date: Friday October 26, 2018
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Richard Kramer, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
University of California, Berkeley
Re-inventing phototransduction in the blind retina with ion channel photoswitches
Date: Friday May 25, 2018
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology
Stanford University
Brain Circuits Combining Visual Perception with Internal States, to Define Action to Threats
Date: Thursday May 17, 2018
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Catherine Bowes Rickman, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology, Eye Research, and Cell Biology
Duke University
Complement Dysregulation and Complement Immunotherapy in AMD
Date: Tuesday April 24, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In Collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Michael Fautsch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Ophthalmology
Mayo Clinic
Development of a novel therapeutic to treat glaucoma
Date: Wednesday March 21, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m.
Location: Rainbow Amphitheater (Grand Rounds)
Barry Willardson, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Brigham Young University
Chaperone-mediated assembly of cell signaling complexes
Date: Tuesday December 5, 2017
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In Collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)
Wallace B. Thoreson, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Nebraska Medical Center
How do photoreceptors sustain synaptic release in darkness
Date: Thursday September 21, 2017
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Lloyd P. Aiello, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology - Keynote Speaker at the Annual VSRC Symposium
Harvard Medical School
Date: Friday June 16, 2017
Location: Wolstein Research Building Auditorium
Sabine Kastner, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
Neural dynamics of the primate attention network
Date: Thursday April 20, 2017
Time: 12:10 p.m.
Location: BRB 105 (In Collaboration with the Department of Neurosciences)
Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Structure-based construction of signaling-biased arrestins
Date: Tuesday February 28, 2017
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Wood 331 (In collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology)