Engineering the Eye IV: Restoring Vision
29th Symposium: August 22-24, 2014
All talks & discussion sessions are in Goergen Hall
All breaks and lunches are in the Munnerlyn Atrium
Thursday, August 21
7:00 - 9:00 pm—Registration & Welcome Reception, Flaum Eye Institute
Friday, August 22
8:00 am—Registration & Breakfast
8:45 am—Welcome
Talk session I: Visual deficits
Chair: Mina Chung
9:00 - 9:40 am—Alan Bird, University College London
Clinical perspective
9:40 - 10:20 am—Lynne Kiorpes, New York University
Critical periods, CNS limitations on recovery
10:20 - 10:50 am—Break
10:50 - 11:30 am—Eli Peli, Harvard Medical School & Schepens Eye Research Institute
Active confocal imaging for visual prostheses
11:30 am - 12:10 pm—Wilson Geisler, The University of Texas at Austin
Characterizing and predicting performance across the visual field
12:10 - 1:10 pm—Lunch
Talk session II: Evaluating Restored Vision
Chair: Krystel Huxlin
1:10 - 1:50 pm—E.J. Chichilnisky, Stanford University
High-resolution electrical stimulation of the retina for epiretinal prosthesis design
1:50 - 2:30 pm—William Merigan, University of Rochester
In vivo imaging of retinal ganglion cell restoration
2:30 - 3:10 pm—Break
3:10 - 3:50 pm—Amy Nau, University of Pittsburgh
Sensory substitution for vision restoration
3:50 - 4:30 pm—Michael Bach, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Assessing restored visual abilities
4:30 - 5:30 pm—Overall discussion session on goals for vision restoration, Moderator: Donald MacLeod
5:30 - 7:30 pm—Poster session and dinner, Munnerlyn Atrium
Saturday, August 23
8:30 am—Breakfast
Talk session III: Comparison of available methods
Chairs: Tatiana Pasternak & Jennifer Hunter
9:00 - 9:40 am—Eberhart Zrenner, University of Tübingen
Advantages and challenges of subfoveal optoelectronic implant Alpha-IMS: experiences from a clinical study in 26 patients
9:40 - 10:20 am—Peter Blamey, The University of Melbourne
Psychophysical and vision processing results with a prototype suprachorodial retinal prosthesis
10:20 - 10:50 am—Break
10:50 - 11:30 am—James D. Weiland, University of Southern California
Design and placement of electronic prostheses; importance of electrode number
11:30 am - 12:10 pm—Bradley Greger, Arizona State University
Evoking visual percepts using electrical stimulation of primary visual cortex
12:10 - 1:10 pm—Lunch
1:10 - 1:50 pm—Deniz Dalkara, Institut de la Vision Paris
Restoring inner retinal function with genetically encoded light channels
1:50 - 2:30 pm—Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute
Regeneration of retinal neurons by transplantation of IPS cells - challenges and benefits of autologous cell transplantation
2:30 - 3:10 pm—Break
3:10 - 3:50 pm—Gustavo D. Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania
Gene Therapy for Treating (reversing/correcting/arresting/rescuing) Retinal Diseases
3:50 - 4:50 pm—Discussion of different methods of visual restoration, including possible combinations of methods, Moderator: Brian Wandell
4:50 - 6:15 pm—Poster session
6:30 - 8:30 pm—Dinner, Colgate Divinity School
Sunday, August 24
8:30 am—Breakfast
Talk session IV: Central Visual Pathways
Chair: David Williams
9:00 - 9:40 am—David J. Margolis, Rutgers University
The functional state of the early visual system after photoreceptor degeneration
9:40 - 10:20 am—Heidi Baseler, The University of York
The role of central pathways in vision restoration
10:20 - 10:50 am—Break
10:50 - 11:30 am—Jessy Dorn, Second Sight Medical Products, Inc
Restoring some vision with a retinal prosthesis: importance of patient motivation and vision rehabilitation
11:30 am - 12:30 pm—Discussion on future directions, Moderator: David Williams
1:00 pm—Closing Lunch at the home of David and Inger Williams