2027
Upcoming Vision Science Research Series Speakers
April 1, 2027
Ross Ethier, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Emory University, and ARVO President-Elect, will present a ViSOR Guest Lecture in conjunction with the 2027 ViSOR Mini-Symposium.
The Vision Research Series is an interdisciplinary meeting of scientists who have expertise in ophthalmology, genetics, pathology, immunology, animal models of eye diseases, advanced imaging, and biomedical engineering.
2026
Upcoming Vision Science Research Series Speakers
2026 UnEYEted Collaborative Event
Save the Date for this year's UnEYEted Collaborative Event to be held on October 13, 2026 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm at the Eye and Ear Institute. The annual symposium encourages collaborative efforts between College of Optometry and DOVS supporting eye research.
Past Events
January 22, 2026
ViSOR Mini-Symposium and Networking Event
2025
February 13, 2025
Karthik Shekhar, Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkley, Evolution and spatial patterning of retinal cell types
March 13, 2025
Anjali Sharma, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University (virtual) Dendrimer Nanostructures for Selective Cellular Targeting and Drug Delivery
April 4, 2025
ViSOR Speed Networking
July 31, 2025
Qing Lin, MD, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innate Immune Cells in Wound Healing
August 21, 2025
Nivedita Singh, PhD, Research Fellow, National Eye Institute, “Multi-omics of dexamethasone treated trabecular meshwork uncovers 78 causal genes for intraocular pressure and primary open-angle glaucoma”
September 4, 2025
Yen-Lin Chen, PhD, Research Scientist, University of Virginia, Vascular calcium signaling nanodomains in health and disease
October 2, 2025
Michael Telias, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience, University of Rochester, An inconvenient truth: pathophysiological remodeling of the inner retina in photoreceptor degeneration
October 23, 2025
Chi Zhang, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Jackson Laboratory, Columbia University Medical Center, IOP-induced blood-retinal barrier compromise contributes to RGC death in glaucoma
October 30, 2025
Menglu Yang, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Electrifying Solutions: Microcurrent Stimulation for Corneal Nerve Regeneration
2024
January 25, 2024
Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, Endowed Professor and Chair, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Foundation & Other Private Funding Opportunities
March 28, 2024
Gary (Guan) Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Photoacoustic Imaging in Vision Research
October 31, 2024
Dr. Martine Jager, Professor of Ophthalmology, Leiden University, Eye color: a detective story using forensics
November 14, 2024
Tony Gover, NEI Program Officer, New translational research opportunities for vision scientists
2023
February 9, 2023
Padmanabhan Pattabiraman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Transcriptional Regulation of Lipid Biogenic Pathways in Trabecular Meshwork in Intraocular Pressure
March 9, 2023
VISOR Presentation for ARVO Session for Graduate Students and PostDocs
July 20, 2023
Dr. Nawajes Mandal & Dr. Sandip Basu, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Association of Sphingolipids in the Pathobiology of Eye Diseases / Sphingosine-1-Phosphate: a Contributor of Corneal Fibrosis
September 14, 2023
Krishnakumar Kizhatil, PhD, Jackson Laboratory, Molecular basis of intraocular pressure regulation
September 21, 2023
Simon Kaja, PhD, Loyola University, Novel Drug Discovery Strategies for Ocular Surface Disease
November 30, 2023
Essam Essat Ayad, MD, PhD, Cairo University, Digital pathology and computational image analysis in clinic and research
2022
April 7, 2022
Dr. Christine Curcio, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AMD Histopathology
June 9, 2022
Dr. Michael Farkas, University of Buffalo, An AMD-associated IncRNA: Functional or Just Deadly?
September 8, 2022
Dr. Robert Mullins, University of Iowa, Choroid in Macular Degeneration
Dr. Yiqin Du, University of Pittsburgh