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| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Breakfast | | Dining Room | |
| 7:00 AM - 6:20 PM | Registration | | Salon I-V Hallway | |
| 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Keynote Lecture III: "Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease: Nexus of Glaucoma, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's and Related Dementias" | Malú Gámez Tansey, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 8:44 AM - 10:05 AM | Platform Session IV - NextGen Glaucoma | | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 8:45 AM - 8:58 AM | "Nitric Oxide Mediates Rapid IOP-Dependent Homeostatic Regulation of Aqueos Humour Outflow in Mice" | Ester Reina-Torres, PhD: | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 8:58 AM - 9:11 AM | "Stem Cell Secretome as a Potential Treatment for Steroid-Induced and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Models" | Ajay Kumar, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 9:11 AM - 9:24 AM | "MKK4 and MKK7 Control Retinal Ganglion Cell Soma Loss, Axonal Degeneration, and Dendritic Remodeling after Glaucoma-Relevant Injury" | Olivia J. Marola, MS | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 9:24 AM - 9:37 AM | "Live Two-Photon Calcium Imaging in Retinal Ganglion Cells: Characterization of Early Changes in a Mouse Glaucoma Model" | Yukihiro Shiga, MD, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 9:37 AM - 9:50 AM | "Sustained Reversal of Glaucoma-Induced Vision Loss by in Vivo Epigenetic Reprogramming" | Margarete Karg, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 9:50 AM - 10:03 AM | "Measuring Cumulative Loss of Ganglion Cell Layer Somas in Normal and Glaucomatous Subjects" | Kazuhiro Kurokawa | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 10:05 AM - 10:30 AM | Break and Poster Viewing | | Lullwater Ballroom | |
| 10:29 AM - 12:30 PM | Platform Session V - Inflammation and Glial Activation | | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:47 AM | "APOE4 Ameliorates Microglial Cytotoxicity and Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma" | Milica A. Margeta, MD, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 10:47 AM - 11:04 AM | "Novel Function of Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-Like 1 (IGFBPL1) Against Microglia Activation and Protects Glaucomatous Degeneration" | Kin-Sang Cho, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 11:04 AM - 11:21 AM | "Passive Transfer of Mononuclear Cells from POAG Donors Confers Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in Recipient Mice" | Markus Kuehn, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 11:21 AM - 11:38 AM | "Decorin - An Antagonist of TGF-Β in Astrocytes of the Optic Nerve" | Rudolf Fuchshofer, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 11:38 AM - 11:55 AM | "The GLP-1 Receptor Agonist NLY01 Reduces Neuroinflammation and Protects Against Neuron Loss in Ocular Hypertension" | Qi N. Cui, MD, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 11:55 AM - 12:12 PM | "Inflammasome Facilitates Ganglion Cell Dysfunction and Loss in Ocular Hypertension Glaucoma" | Valery Shestopalov | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 12:12 PM - 12:29 PM | "Signaling Pathways that Link IOP Elevation with Retinal Microglial Activation and IL-1β Release" | Claire Mitchell, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch | | Dining Room | |
| 1:44 PM - 3:45 PM | Platform Session VI - Insights From Novel Models and Approaches | | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:02 PM | "Mining the BXD Family of Mice to Model the Natural Progression of Glaucoma" | TJ Hollingsworth | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 2:02 PM - 2:19 PM | "Enhanced Optic Nerve and Retinal Ganglion Cell Degeneration in a new Multifactorial Glaucoma Animal Model" | Sabrina Reinehr, Dr. rer. nat. | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 2:19 PM - 2:36 PM | "SREBF2 is Necessary for Efficient Optic Nerve Regeneration in Zebrafish" | Matthew Veldman, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 2:36 PM - 2:53 PM | "ANGPTL7 Gene Silencing and Knockdown lowers IOP" | Carl Romano, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 2:53 PM - 3:10 PM | "Establishing the Ground Squirrel as a Model for Exploring Optic Neuropathologies, Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection" | Francisco M. Nadal-Nicolas, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 3:10 PM - 3:27 PM | "Mice Carrying an A387T Variant of ADAMTS10 Recapitulate Phenotypes of Weill-Marchesani Syndrome" | John Kuchtey, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 3:27 PM - 3:44 PM | "Human Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Ganglion Cells Carrying a Glaucoma-Causing Mutation Exhibit Neurodegenerative Phenotypes and are Sensitive to the Effects of Diseased Astrocytes" | Jason S. Meyer, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Break and Poster Viewing | | Lullwater Ballroom | |
| 4:14 PM - 5:35 PM | Platform Session VII - Structural and Functional Neuroenhancement | | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 4:15 PM - 4:31 PM | "Autophagy Deficiency Protects Against IOP Elevation and Offers Neuroprotection in Experimental and Chronic Glaucoma Mouse Models" | Paloma B. Liton, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 4:31 PM - 4:47 PM | "Rod Pathway Asymmetries Following to Transient Intraocular Pressure Elevation" | Luca Della Santina, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 4:47 PM - 5:03 PM | "Functional effects of optic nerve head astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles" | Simon Kaja, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 5:03 PM - 5:19 PM | "Robust Optic Nerve Regeneration in a Mouse Mutant" | Jiaxing Wang, MD, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 5:19 PM - 5:35 PM | "Loss of RGC Synaptic Outputs to the Visual Thalamus in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma" | Matthew Van Hook, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 5:35 PM - 6:20 PM | Keynote Lecture IV: "The Benefits of Studying Eyes and Brains to Uncover Common Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases" | Gareth Howell, PhD | Emory Amphitheater | |
| 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Awards Reception and Dinner | | Lullwater Ballroom | |
