2027 Symposium - Editing for Vision: How Foundational Biology Drives Genetic Therapies for the Eye

Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD

University of California Berkeley; Innovative Genomics Institute

 Keynote Lecture

Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD

University of California, Irvine

Opening Remarks

 Vadim Y. Arshavsky, PhD

Duke University

 Anand Swaroop, PhD

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD

 University of California, Irvine

 Botond Roska, MD, PhD

Institute of Molecular & Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland

 Akrit Sodhi, MD, PhD

John Hopkins University

Maria B. Grant, MD, FARVO

University of Alabama at Birmingham

9:00 AM: Welcome & Opening Remarks                         

Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD

9:15 AM: Talk and Q&A                                            

Vadim Y. Arshavsky, PhD, Duke University 

10:00 AM: Talk and Q&A 

Anand Swaroop, PhD, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

10:45 AM: Talk and Q&A 

Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

11:30 AM: Talk and Q&A 

Kris Palczewski, PhD, University of California, Irvine

12:15 PM: Transition to Lunch

12:30 - 1:15 PM: Lunch

1:15: Transition to Second Part of the Symposium

1:30 PM Afternoon Presentations

Postdoc/Grad Student Short Talks

2:00 PM: Keynote Lecture and Q&A 

Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; Innovative Genomics Institute

3:00 PM: Talk and Q&A 

Botond Roska, MD, PhD, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland

3:45 PM: Talk and Q&A 

Akrit Sodhi, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

4:30 PM: Talk and Q&A 

Maria B. Grant, MD, FARVO, University of Alabama at Birmingham

5:15 PM: Transition Break

5:30 PM: Social Hour