IoO Annual Lectures

2024

Professor Catherine Bowes Rickman, Duke University Medical Centre
Title: The Promise of Complement Factor H Augmentation for Dry AMD Treatment

2023

Professor Krzysztof (Kris) Palczewski from the University of California
Title: Precise genome editing in the eye: curing blindness is now within sight

2022

Professor Mike Sapieha from the University of Montreal
Title: Revascularizing the Ischemic Retina

2021

Professor Constance Cepko from Harvard Medical School
Title: Cell fate determination in retinal development

2020 (online only)

Professor Justine Smith from Flinders University
Title: Mechanisms of Ocular Toxoplasmosis

2019

Professor John Gerard Flannery
Title: Optogenetics for Vision Restoration

2018

Professor Patricia D’Amore from Schepens Eye Research Institute 
Title: Novel roles for Endomucin in inflammation and angiogenesis

Lecture Series 2019-2020

18 September 2019
Professor Andrew Lotery
University of Southampton
Topic: Understanding AMD via lab and clinical studies

16 October 2019
Dr Jernej Ule
Crick Institute
Topic: Mechanisms and functions of ribonucleoprotein condensates in development and disease

13 November 2019
Dr Anu Kanuppinen
University of Eastern Finland
Topic: The inflammasome and its regulation in AMD

11 December 2019
Dr Christos Bergeles
University College London
Topic: Development of micro-precise robotic instrumentation for ocular regenerative therapy delivery

15 January 2020
Dr Pleasantine Mill
MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
Topic: TBC

18 March 2020
Dr Olivier Goureau
Research Director Institut de la Vision, INSERM, Paris
Topic: Human stem cell-based retinal derivatives for cell replacement strategies

15 April 2020
Professor Steve Wilson
UCL
Topic: From eye specification  to vision: using zebrafish to understand eye development in health and disease.

13 May 2020
Professor James E Morgan  
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Cardiff
Topic: The retinal ganglion cell in glaucoma: prospects for protection and repair.

24 June 2020
Professor Justine Smith
Eye & Vision Health, Flinders University, Australia
Topic: Mechanisms of Ocular Toxoplasmosis