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.

Upcoming Speakers

Upcoming Vision Science Research Series Speakers

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Previous Speakers

Previous Vision Science Research Series Presentations

Thursday July 20, 2023

Guest Lecturer - Nawajes Mandal, MSc., PhD; Association of Sphingolipids in the Pathobiology of Eye Diseases
Guest Lecturer - Sandip Basu, PhD; Sphingosine-7-Phosphate: a Contributor of Corneal Fibrosis

Thursday March 9, 2023

VISOR Presentation for ARVO Session for Graduate Students and PostDocs

 

Thursday 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


Thursday, December 8th, 2022 
NIH Data Management Policy Presentation

 

Thursday, September 8th, 2022

 

Robert F. Mullins, PhD -Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Martin Carver Chair in Ocular Cell Biology,University of Iowa Health Care,Carver College of Medicine

“Understanding Mitochondrial Retinal Disease: A Multiomic Approach”

 

Thursday, June 9th, 2022

 

Michael H. Farkas, PhD – Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Ophthalmology

"An AMD-associated Inc RNA: Functional of just deadly?"

 

Thursday, April 7th, 2022

 

Christine Curcio, PhD, FARVO - White-McKee Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology,

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, EyeSight Foundation of Alabama Vision Research Laboratories

“Neovascular AMD and its precursor deposits, a journey including clinicopathologic correlation”

 

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

 

Mary Hoffman Pancake, MS, PMP - Program Manager, Biomedical Devices The Ohio State University College of Engineering Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) and Medical Modeling Materials and Manufacturing Lab

"Bench to Bedside - Clinicians and Engineers Partnering to Translate Healthcare Innovations"

 

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

 

Ayellet V. Segre, PhD - Associate Professor Harvard University

"Integrating expression and splicing QTLs and single-expression data with GWAS uncovers casual genes and pathogenic cell types for glaucoma"

 

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

 

Amany Mohamed Tawfik, MD - Associate Professor Augusta University

"Homocysteine: A Potential Biomarker and Therapeutic Target for Retinal Diseases"

 

 

Thursday, June 10th, 2021

 

Nagaraj Kerur, PhD – The Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"Innate Immunity, Oxidative Retinal Damage, and Angiogenesis"

 

 

Thursday, April 8th

 

Barbel Rohrer, PhD – Endowed Chair, Gene & Pharmaceutical Treatment of Retinal Degenerative Disease, Medical University of South Carolina

2021 "Exosome-communication in the retinal pigment epithelium, potential contributions to age-related macular degeneration"

 

 

Thursday, May 11th, 2021

 

ARVO Week: "ViSOR" Vision Sciences Ohio State Research

Post Docs Presenting

 

 

March 9th 2021

 

David Antonetti, PhD – Research Faculty, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center

"Regulation of the neurovascular unit and preservation of vision in diabetic retinopathy"

 

 

February 11th 2021

 

Nathan Doble, PhD – Research Faculty, Ohio State University College of Optometry

"Full Field OCT for Cellular Level Structural and Functional Retinal Imaging"

 

 

January 12th 2021

 

Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, PhD - Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"Ocular pigmentation and eye diseases"

 

 

December 8th 2020

 

Colleen Cebulla, MD, PhD – Physician and Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"MIF Work"

 

 

November 10th 2020

 

Colleen Cebulla, MD, PhD – Physician and Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"MIF in the Retina Questions"

 

 

October 13th 2020

 

Shigeo Tamiya, PhD - Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"Cell Signaling Involved in the Development of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy"

Carol Toris, PhD - - Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

“Pre-clinical Studies of New Glaucoma Therapies”

 

 

September 8th 2020

 

Andy Fischer, PhD - Professor, Ohio State University Department of Neuroscience

Structural and Functional Assessments Core:

Raymond Gao, PhD – Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Bioinformatics and Genetic Analysis Core:

Jeff Walline, OD, PhD - Associate Dean For Research and Grad Education, Ohio State University College of Optometry

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, PhD - Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Biomedical Informatics

Data Science Core:

David Reed, PhD and Raymond Gao, PhD – Research Faculty, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

P30 experiences

 

 

August 11th 2020

 

Abby Larsen – Clinical Research Manager, Ohio State University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

"Email Security and Compliance"

Also Discussed: P30 Grant Application, COVID Lab re-opening, Recruitment New Research Interview Committee