European Retina Meeting 2007
Program Overview
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| Time |
Place |
Event |
Thursday, Oct. 4 |
12:00 - open
|
Lobby |
Registration at the meeting's reception
desk |
| 13:00 |
|
Poster rooms open - Please put up posters |
14:00 - 14:15
|
Lecture hall |
Welcome |
| 14:15 - 17:15 |
Lecture hall |
Symposium 1 - Development
and plasticity
Chaired by Dorothea Schulte & Susanne tom Dieck |
| |
14:15 - 15:05 |
Keynote: Rachel O. Wong
"Circuit development in the vertebrate retina" |
| |
15:05 - 15:30 |
William J. Brunken
"Genetic deletion of laminin disrupts retinal development
and organization" |
| |
15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee break |
| |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Hanna Regus-Leidig
"Assembly of photoreceptor ribbon synapses from a heterogeneous
population of precursor spheres" |
| |
16:15 - 16:40 |
David R. Copenhagen
"The overlapping and distinct roles of NT-3 and BDNF in
the refinement of RGC dendritic structures during postnatal development" |
| |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Shigang He
"Light independent formation of a retina circuitry for
coding motion directions" |
| |
17:05 - 17:15 |
Discussion |
|
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
|
Break |
| 17:30 - 18:15 |
Lecture hall |
Eberhart Zrenner
"Subretinal microphotodiode-arrays for providing visual orientation
to blind patients" followed by a brief presentation of The
European Vision Institute |
| 18:30 - 21:00 |
|
Posters
(with drinks & snacks)
|
Friday, Oct. 5 |
| 8:30 |
|
Poster rooms open |
| 9:00 - 12:00 |
Lecture hall |
Symposium 2
- Retinal Circuits I
(previously: Synaptic organization of the retina)
Chaired by Silke Haverkamp & Thomas Euler |
| |
9:00 - 9:50 |
Keynote: Heinz Wässle
"Glycinergic inhibition in the mammalian retina" |
| |
9:50 - 10:15 |
Jeffrey S. Diamond
"Subunit-specific localization and function of NMDARs in
rat ganglion cells" |
| |
10:15 - 10:35 |
Coffee break |
| |
10:35 - 11:00 |
Richard H. Masland
"The spatial distribution of PSD95 sites upon diverse types
of retinal ganglion cells follows a single generic plan" |
| |
11:00 - 11:25 |
David Balya
"Retinal repair by circuit-specific intervention with an
optical neuromodulator" |
| |
11:25 - 11:50 |
Robert F. Miller
"Modulation of NMDA receptors in the retina through static
and dynamic mechanisms of D-serine regulation" |
| |
11:50 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
|
Break
(lunch not organized) |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
|
Posters
IMPORTANT: Please take posters down immediately after the session! |
| 16:20 - 18:55 |
Lecture hall |
Symposium 3 -
Retinal Circuits II
(previously: Retinal color processing strategies)
Chaired by Maarten Kamermans & Leo Peichl |
| |
16:20 - 17:10 |
Keynote: Steven H. DeVries
"Bipolar cell circuits
for dichromatic color vision" |
| |
17:10 - 17:35 |
Ulrike Grünert
"Connectivity of OFF midget bipolar cells in the retina
of the marmoset monkey" |
| |
17:35 - 17:55 |
Coffee break |
| |
17:55 - 18:20 |
Thorsten Hansen
"Color perception in the peripheral visual field" |
| |
18:20 - 18:45 |
Maarten Kamermans
"Zebrafish Cx55.5(C54X) 'knock outs' have deficits in cone-mediated
vision" |
| |
18:45 - 18:55 |
Discussion |
|
| 18:55 - 19:15 |
|
Break |
| 19:15 - 20:00 |
Lecture hall |
David I. Vaney
"Birthday lecture for Reto Weiler" |
| 20:15 - 23:00 |
|
Organized Dinner
Cruise with buffet dinner on Main River along Frankfurt Skyline
(financed by sponsors, drinks not included). |
Saturday, Oct. 6 |
| 09:00 - 12:00 |
Lecture hall |
Symposium 4 -
Spatio-temporal computing/coding in the retina
Chaired by Jutta Kretzberg & Josef Ammermüller |
| |
9:00 - 9:50 |
Keynote: Markus Meister
"Eyes smarter than scientists believed: neural computations
in the retina" |
| |
9:50 - 10:15 |
Leon Lagnado
"Sustained and transient signals in the synaptic terminals
of retinal bipolar cells imaged in vivo" |
| |
10:15 - 10:35 |
Coffee break |
| |
10:35 - 11:00 |
Gabe J. Murphy
"Source, properties, and impact of network variability
on action potential generation in retinal ganglion cells" |
| |
11:00 - 11:25 |
Andreas Thiel
"A comparison of rate coding and latency coding based on
velocity and acceleration sensitivity in turtle retinal ganglion
cells" |
| |
11:25 - 11:50 |
Matthias Bethge
"Receptive fields without spike-triggering" |
| |
11:50 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
|
Break
(lunch not organized) |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
Lecture hall |
Symposium 5 - Retinal
adaptation on different levels
Chaired by Karin Dedek & Karl-Wilhelm Koch |
| |
13:30 - 14:20 |
Keynote: Jonathan B. Demb
"Function circuitry of visual adaptation" |
| |
14:20 - 14:45 |
Pedro de la Villa
"Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells: functional
role in light adaptation" |
| |
14:45 - 15:05 |
Coffee break |
| |
15:05 - 15:30 |
Stuart C. Mangel
"A circadian clock in the retina
regulates rod-cone coupling" |
| |
15:30 - 15:55 |
Oliver Biehlmaier
"Mutations in the Usher1B related gene myo7a lead to light
adaptation defects in zebrafish" |
| |
15:55 - 16:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Lecture hall |
Final discussion, suggestions, comments |
| 16:30 |
|
Departure |
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| last updated:
November 13, 2010 15:29
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