| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SEYMOUR BENZER SYMPOSIUM |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Keynote speaker: Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School)
"Genomics approaches to retinal development and disease" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Nicolas Franceschini (CNRS, Marseille, France) |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Ruben Adler (Johns Hopkins)
"Looking into the future with a developing eye" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EYE DETERMINATION |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Lang (Cincinnati) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Richard Lang (Cincinnati)
"Mechanisms of lens induction signaling and morphogenesis" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Francesca Pignoni (Harvard Med), Discussant
"Genetic control of proliferation and tissue specification in the eye-antennal disc epithelium" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Graeme Mardon (Baylor)
"Mechanisms of early retinal cell fate determination in Drosophila" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rashmi Hegde (Cincinnati)
"Mechanism of action of the retinal determination proteins" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Richard Maas (Harvard)
"Upstream Regulation of Vertebrate Pax6" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Paul Overbeek (Baylor)
"Induction of Ectopic Lenses in Transgenic Mice" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTION AND EYE DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Jeffery (Maryland) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Bill Jeffery (Maryland)
"Evolution and Restoration of the Visual System in Blind Cavefish" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Barb Batelle (St Augustine), Discussant
"Circadian regulation of visual functions in the horseshoe crab" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Detlev Arendt (EMBL)
"Evolution of photoreceptor cell types in Bilateria" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Joram Piatigorsky (NEI)
"Gene Sharing in the Eye from Jellyfish to Mammals: Evolution by Gene Regulation" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SIGNALING IN EYE DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Monica Vetter (Univ. Utah) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Monica Vetter (Univ. Utah)
"Frizzled signaling regulates the onset of retinal neurogenesis" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Kevin Moses (Emory), Discussant
"Cell proliferation and fate in the flye eye"" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Carl Neumann (EMBL)
"Control of differentiation in the zebrafish retina by Sonic Hedgehog signaling" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tom Reh (U. Washington)
"Patterning of cell mosaics in the vertebrate retina" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Ross Cagan (Washington U.)
"Death, cancer, and the fly eye"" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Valerie Wallace (Ottawa)
"Hedgehog signaling and mammalian retinal histogenesis" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COLOR AND POLARIZED LIGHT VISION |
| Discussion Leader: Jay Neitz (Med College Wisconsin, Milwaukee) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Jay Neitz (Med College Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
"Constraints on the mechanisms for neural coding of color in primates imposed from consideration of evolution and development" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Adriana Briscoe (UC Irvine), Discussant
"Rapid evolution of the butterfly eye through independent duplications of the rhodopsin gene family" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Thomas Labhart (Zurich)
"Polarization sensitivity and polarization compass in insects" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Craig Hawryshyn (U. Victoria)
"Through the eye of a salmon: Ultraviolet polarization vision and cone mosaic remodeling events" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:30 pm | Thomas Cronin (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
"Visual signal constancy in a variable environment" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DEVELOPMENT OF CELL FATES |
| Discussion leader: Anand Swaroop (Ann Arbor) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Anand Swaroop (Ann Arbor)
"Making a mammalian rod photoreceptor" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Andrew Tomlinson (Columbia Med), Discussant
"Photoreceptor cell fate specification in the Drosophila eye" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Bill Klein (MD Anderson)
"A genetic hierarchy of retinal ganglion cell differentiation" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tom Becker (Bergen)
"Gene discovery in the zebrafish retina by enhancer detection" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Marek Mlodzik (Mount Sinai, New York)
"Specification of the R3 and R4 photoreceptors: Frizzled and Notch signaling interplay" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Lydia Michaut (Basel)
"Genomic approaches to Drosophila eye development" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Informal Workshop: NEI new investigator
Representative from NEI |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:15 pm - 7:30 pm | BUSINESS MEETING |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PHOTORECEPTOR MORPHOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Don Ready (Purdue) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Don Ready (Purdue)
"Skin and bones: membrane traffic and the cytoskeleton in
Drosophila photoreceptor morphogenesis?" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Nansi Colley (Madison), Discussant
"Quality Control of Protein Trafficking in Drosophila Photoreceptors" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Joe Besharse (Med College Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
"Vertebrate Photoreceptors as Sensory Cilia: A Conserved Transport Mechanism in Motile and Sensory Cilia" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Uli Tepass (Toronto)
"Crumbs and associates in retinal morphogenesis" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:30 pm | Tom Schwarz (Children's hospital, Harvard)
"Cellular traffic in the fly eye: motors and membrane targeting" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL CONNECTIONS |
| Discussion leader: Tom Clandinin (Stanford) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Tom Clandinin (Stanford)
"Dissecting Drosophila Photoreceptor Growth Cone Interactions" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Mark Hankins (Imperial College, London)
"Development of intrinsically light sensitive ganglion cells in mice" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Robin Hiesinger (Baylor)
"Mutational Analysis of Synaptic Specificity in the Drosophila Visual System" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Herwig Baier (UCSF)
"Genetic analysis of visual connectivity in zebrafish" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Sam Kunes (Harvard)
"Determinants of Hedgehog Axon Transport" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Jessica Treisman (Skirball NYU Med)
"LAR and Liprin-alpha function in R7 photoreceptor targeting" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW WAVES IN VISUAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Jessica Treisman (Skirball NYU Med) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Jessica Treisman (Skirball NYU Med)
"LAR and Liprin-alpha function in R7 photoreceptor targeting" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Nadean Brown (Cincinnati), Discussant
"Cross-species approaches to deciphering Ath5 gene regulation" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | short talk chosen from abstracts |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | short talk chosen from abstracts |
| 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | short talk chosen from abstracts |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | short talk chosen from abstracts |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
