Final call for papers
Aging Retina and Early Degeneration
October 25-27, 2001
Boston
Abstracts due: August 14, 2001
Please register and submit your abstract using
http://color.eri.harvard.edu/agingretina/index.htm
Abstracts welcomed from a broad variety of approaches on aging and vision,
including both normal changes in the lifespan throughout development and
early disease mechanisms. What are the genetic and environmental factors
that influence both aging changes and disease?
We feature a core of invited talks (see below). We will also have a small
number of presentations from representatives of federal institutions or
interest groups on this topic.
"The effects of aging on choroidal neovascularization in rodents"
Karl Csaky,National Eye Institute
"The effects of aging on the development of subretinal deposits in mice"
Scott Cousins, University of Miami
"Visual adaptation and age-related disease: are there gender-dependent
differences?"
Al Eisner, Neurological Sciences Institute
"Epidemiology of age-related maculopathy"
Caroline Klaver
"Math-5 and Brn-3 in retinal ganglion cell development"
Lin Gan, University of Rochester
"Aging of the RPE: the telomere hypothesis"
Leonard Hjelmeland, University of CA, Davis
"Aging is a Risk Factor for the Loss of Retinal Ganglion Cells"
Arthur Neufeld, Washington, University
"Teleost fish: a unique model for retinal stem cell research"
Pamela Raymond, University of Michigan
"Impact of A2E on Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells"
Janet Sparrow, Columbia University
"The Progression of atrophic age-related macular degeneration"
Janet Sunness, Johns Hopkins University
For more information, contact the website,
agingretina@vision.eri.harvard.edu or
Organizing Committee:
Ann E. Elsner (chair)
Alice J. Adler
Stephen A. Burns
Dong Feng Chen
Francois C. Delori
Elisabeth Fine
Michael Young
Program Committee:
Steve Bernstein
Emily Chew
Kameran Lashkari
Joan Miller
Gary Rubin
Marilyn Schneck
John Weiter
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