European Retina Meeting 2009
Program overview:
The complete program and a list of abstracts are also available
as PDFs (Program, ListOfAbstract).
Note that the program may still be subject to change.
| Time |
Event |
Wednesday, Oct. 7 |
| 20:00 - 21:30 |
Public lecture – Reto Weiler: "Sehen
und Kunst: das kunstvolle Auge" (in German)
Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Stadt der Wissenschaft
(PFL, lecture hall) |
Thursday, Oct. 8 |
| 13:00 - open |
Registration at the meeting's office |
| 13:30 |
Poster rooms open - Please put up all
posters. |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Welcome |
| 14:15 - 17:15 |
Symposium
1 - Retinal Circuits and Adaptation
Chaired by Thomas Euler & Maarten Kamermans |
| |
14:15 - 15:05 |
Keynote: Botond Roska
"Seeing with and without classical photoreceptors" |
| |
15:05 - 15:30 |
Tamas Szikra
"Calcium homeostasis and cone signaling are regulated by interactions between calcium stores and plasma membrane ion channels" |
| |
15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee break |
| |
15:45 - 16:10 |
Duco Endeman
"Activation of the calcium-dependent chloride current in cones reduces feedback from horizontal cells in the goldfish retina" |
| |
16:10 - 16:35 |
Gabriel C. Knop
"Anatomy and physiology of type 2 dopaminergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina" |
| |
16:35 - 17:00 |
Ben Sivyer
"Uniformity detector ganglion cells in rabbit retina" |
| |
17:00 - 17:15 |
Discussion |
|
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Break |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Posters 1 - those with EVEN poster
numbers are presented.
(With drinks and snacks; the rest of the evening is free; dinner is
not provided)
|
| 21:00 - 22:30 |
For interested partcipants:
Show of the movie "In Search of Memory" (Eric Kandel),
Cinema Casablanca |
Friday, Oct. 9 |
| 8:30 |
Poster rooms open |
| 9:00 - 12:00 |
Symposium
2 - Photoreceptors and Color Vision
Chaired by Karl-Wilhelm Koch & Leo Peichl |
| |
09:00 - 09:50 |
Keynote: Gerald H. Jacobs
"Linking photopigments and color vision in mammals" |
| |
09:50 - 10:15 |
Boris Joffe
"Inverted nuclei in mammalian rod photoreceptors: organization, putative role in the retina, and significance as an evolutionary marker" |
| |
10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Alison L. Reynolds
"Electroretinography of a novel zebrafish model of human cone rod dystrophy 6" |
| |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Andreas Gießl
"Pericentrin, a centrosomal protein related to microcephalic primordial dwarfism, identified at the basal-body complex in mammalian photoreceptor cells" |
| |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Daniele Dell'Orco
"Light adaptation in rod cells under normal and altered conditions: a computational network-level analysis" |
| |
11:45 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch break
(not organized) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Posters 2 - those with ODD
poster numbers are presented. |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee break |
| 15:45 - 18:45 |
Symposium
3 - Development and Plasticity
Chaired by Silke Haverkamp & Helmut Brandstätter |
| |
15:45 - 16:35 |
Keynote: Marla B. Feller
"Mechanisms underlying spontaneous
activity in the developing retina" |
| |
16:35 - 17.00 |
Finn Hallböök
"Are the horizontal cells the odd-ones-out in the generation
of retinal neurons?" |
| |
17:00 - 17:15 |
Coffee break |
| |
17:15 - 17:40 |
Timm Schubert
"Development of cone photoreceptor and horizontal cell
connectivity in the absence of outer retinal GABA synthesis" |
| |
17:40 - 18:05 |
Theresa Puthussery
"Dynamics of rod bipolar cell responses in the mouse
retina" |
| |
18:05 - 18:20 |
Discussion |
|
| 18:20 - 18:45 |
Break |
| 18:45 - 19:30 |
Special lecture - Andreas Reichenbach:
"Müller cells: important players in vertebrate retina" |
| 20:00 - |
Organized dinner in the ballroom of Oldenburg Castle
Address: Schlossplatz 26, 26122 Oldenburg |
Saturday, Oct. 10 |
| 09:00 - 12:00 |
Symposium
4 - Neural Computations in the Retina
Chaired by Jutta Kretzberg & Josef Ammermüller |
| |
09:00 - 09:50 |
Keynote: E. J. Chichilnisky
"The structure of the retinal receptive field at the elementary resolution of single cones" |
| |
09:50 - 10:15 |
Günther Zeck
"Electrical imaging of the ganglion cell layer in the rabbit and mouse retina" |
| |
10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| |
10:30 - 10.55 |
Markus Bongard
"Fragments of the visual code: color and contrast, and a little bit of movement…" |
| |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Tom Baden
"Two in one: different synaptic terminals of individual bipolar cells exhibit different signaling properties depending on their size" |
| |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Henrique von Gersdorff
"
Light-evoked short-term synaptic plasticity in the inner retina" |
| |
11:45 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch break (not organized)
Please take down ALL posters. |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Special lecture - John E. Dowling:
"What can a zebrafish see with only an OFF-pathway?" |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Break |
| 14:30 - 17:30 |
Symposium
5 - Synaptic Organization of the Retina
Chaired by Karin Dedek & Andreas Feigenspan |
| |
14:30 - 15:20 |
Keynote: Ronald G. Gregg
"Signaling through depolarizing bipolar cells: lessons from disease models" |
| |
15:20 - 15:45 |
Christian Puller
"Protocadherin beta16 is localized at AMPA and kainate receptor expressing synapses in the primate retina" |
| |
15:45 - 16:10 |
Maureen A. McCall
"Glycine receptor subunits α2 & α3 differentially dontribute to receptive field organization of ON- and OFF-center retinal ganglion cells" |
| |
16:10 - 16:25 |
Coffee break |
| |
16:25 - 16:50 |
Tiffany A. Schmidt
"Diversity of intrinsic and extrinsic influences on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells" |
| |
16:50 - 17:15 |
Kevin L. Briggman
"Retinal circuit reconstruction using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy" |
| |
17:15 - 17:30 |
Discussion |
|
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Best student poster award, final discussion, suggestions,
critics |
| 18:00 |
Departure |
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| last updated:
November 13, 2010 15:47
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