AVN's visiting speakers comprise leading investigators whose research spans the breadth of Ophthalmology and Visual Neuroscience. Their visits to the Universities of Alberta and Calgary have been co-supported by of our funding partners†

Mar 3, 2021		Dr. Brian Clark Washington University School of Medical in St. Louis Functional genomics of retinal development
Feb 3, 2021		Dr. Ryan MacDonald University College London Development and maintenance of glial-neuronal contacts in the retina
Jan 13, 2021		Dr. Brittany Carr University of British Columbia When poor construction leads to destruction: Examining the role of prominin-1 in photoreceptor outer segment morphogenesis and cone-rod dystrophy
Dec 2, 2020		Dr. Natalia Vergara University of Colorado School of Medicine Stem-cell derived retinal organoids: from human development to therapeutic innovation/i>
Nov 4, 2020		Dr. Vilaiwan Fernandes University College London Building maps in the visual system, with help from glia
Oct 7, 2020		Dr. Pierre Mattar University of Ottawa Transcriptional control of neural progenitor multipotency in the retina
Mar 23, 2020		Dr. David Hipfner IRCM, Université de Montréal Complex roles of G protein-coupled receptor kinases in the Hedgehog signaling pathway
Nov 19, 2018		Dr. Orson Moritz University of British Columbia Using genetically modified X. laevis to examine mechanisms underlying inherited retinal degenerations
May 14, 2018		Dr. Yevgenya Grinblat University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Shaping the vertebrate Head from Z(ic) to A(lx)
May 11, 2018		Dr. Richard Harbottle University of Heidelburg, Germany Building a Novel DNA Vector Platform for Human Gene and Cell Therapy
May 9, 2018		Dr. Peter Carlsson University of Gothenburg, Sweden FoxF2 in development and disease of the CNS vasculature
April 24, 2018		Dr. Joe Corbo Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Extreme Color Vision
June 5, 2017		Dr. Michel Cayouette Cellular Neurobiology Research Unit, University of Montreal Temporal identity factors - new approaches for stem cell therapies
March 31, 2017		Dr. Sabine Fuhrmann Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Morphogenesis of the ventral optic cup: closing the gap
December 5, 2016		Dr. Jeff Gross Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Eye Development
October 11, 2016		Dr. Jod Meta Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Genetic Corneal Dystrophies
June 1, 2016		Dr. Anneke den Hollander Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Annual Research Day, Guest Speaker Genetics of multifactorial eye diseases
April 19, 2016		Dr. Ann Morris Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, USA Visual system development and regeneration: a fish-eye view
January 29, 2016		Dr. Elise Héon Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto Bardet-Biedl syndrome: how the genetics are changing our understanding
December 11, 2015		Dr. Deborah Stenkamp Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, USA Seeing Double: Regulation of Tandemly-Duplicated Cone Opsins in the Zebrafish
November 13, 2015		Dr. Isabelle Brunette Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada The future of corneal endothelial cell transplantation
October 26, 2015		Dr. Tom Kume Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Forkhead box transcription factors in cardiovascular & eye development
October 9, 2015		Dr. Mike Sapieha Centre de Recherche, Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, Canada New Tricks from Old Neurons: Neurovascular Paradigms in Ischemic Retinopathies

† Walter MacKenzie Visiting Speaker Fund; Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute; Department of Biological Sciences; and Ocular Gene Therapy AIHS CRIO Team Grant