The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest organization of its type, with 11,000 researchers from over 75 countries. Each year, hundreds of NEI-funded researchers gather at ARVO to share their latest discoveries in eye and vision research. The theme of the 2023 ARVO meeting is the next revolution of clinically translating these discoveries to restore and preserve vision.
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NEI Director Michael Chiang, M.D., (@NEIDirector) will also be active on X during ARVO 2023.
NEI Extramural Booth Schedule ARVO 2023
NEI staff are available during ARVO 2023 to answer questions about grant funding, training, and promoting your work. Find us at Booth 936 (right by ARVO Central) or through the official ARVO meeting app.
Sunday April 23
9AM-Noon
George McKie
Neeraj Agarwal
James Gao
1:30PM-4:30PM
Ashley Fortress
Nataliya Gordiyenko
Neeraj Agarwal
Kathleen Anderson
Don Everett
Sangeeta Bhargava
Jimmy Le
Monday April 24
9AM-Noon
Tony Gover
Ashley Fortress
Grace Shen
Neeraj Agarwal
Chuck Wright
Ellen Liberman
Jay Colbert
Hongman Song
1:30PM-4:30PM
Tony Gover
Paek Lee
Shawn Adolphus
Carissa Reilly-Weedon
Don Everett
Sangeeta Bhargava
Jimmy Le
Alysia Champagne
Tuesday April 25
9AM-Noon
Tony Gover
Shawn Adolphus
Tom Greenwell
Kathleen Anderson
James Gao
Ashley Fortress
1:30PM-4:30PM
George McKie
Paek Lee
Carissa Reilly-Weedon
Alysia Champagne
Chuck Wright
Jay Colbert
Nataliya Gordiyenko
Wednesday April 26
ARVO Extramural Presentation 9-11am
9AM-Noon
Tom Greenwell
James Gao
Chuck Wright
Jay Colbert
1:30PM-4:30PM
Grace Shen
Neeraj Agarwal
Chuck Wright
Ashley Fortress
Hongman Song
Ellen Liberman
Abstracts from NEI Intramural Research Staff
See schedule of intramural research papers and poster presentations.
Sunday April 23
Paper Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive damage to retinal pigment epithelial cells near subretinal drusenoid deposits revealed using adaptive optics | Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Emily Y. Chew, Tiarnan D. Keenan, Catherine Cukras, Johnny Tam | 3:45 PM | La Nouvelle AB |
Poster Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large scale visualization of the retinal pigment epithelial mosaic using artificial intelligence enhanced AO-OCT | Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam | 3:45 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| Evaluation of Cone Photoreceptors in Waardenburg Syndrome Type 2A Using Adaptive Optics | Nancy Aguilera, Tao Liu, Joseph Carroll, Brian P. Brooks, Robert B. Hufnagel, Johnny Tam | 3:45 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| Longitudinal In Vivo Assessment of RPE Cells Following Indocyanine Green Dye Uptake Using Adaptive Optics Imaging | Sarah Abouassali, Tao Liu, Joanne Li, Andrew J. Bower,, Nancy Aguilera, Furu Zhang, Johnny Tam | 3:45 | Exhibit Hall |
| Surpassing the diffraction limit for improved resolution in adaptive optics optical coherence tomography in the living human eye | Andrew J. Bower, Furu Zhang, Tao Liu, Bartlomiej Kowalski, Rongwen Lu, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hamme, Alfredo Dubra, Johnny Tam | 3:45 | Exhibit Hall |
| Characterization of Cone and RPE Morphology Across the Macula of Living Human Eyes Using Adaptive Optics-Optical Coherence Tomography | Samira Aghayee, Somayyeh Soltanian-Zadeh, Achyut Raghavendra, Osamah Saeedi, Catherine A. Cukras, Sina Farsiu, Daniel X. Hammer, Zhuolin Liu | 3:45 | Exhibit Hall |
Monday April 24
Paper Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sequestration of indocyanine green dye into lysosomes after uptake into retinal pigment epithelial cells | Johnny Tam, Rongwen Lu, Margery Smelkinson, Owen Schwartz, Kapil Bharti, Sarah Cohen, Robert Fariss | 11:30 AM | 356-357 |
| Sub-diffraction adaptive optics fluorescence imaging of the living human eye using pixel reassignment | Furu Zhang, John Giannini, Rongwen Lu, Bartlomiej Kowalski, Andrew J. Bower, Nancy Aguilera, Joanne Li, Sarah Abouassali, Vineeta Das, Tao Liu, Alfredo Dubra, Johnny Tam | 3:15 PM | 356-357 |
Poster Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Characterizing the rod pathway in cone-dominated thirteen-lined ground squirrels | Riley Ferguson, Francisco Nadal-Nicolás, Wei Li | 11:30 AM | Exhibit Hall |
| Rasch-analysis calibration of the National Eye Institute-Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) items in AREDS participants | Susan Vitale, Jimmy T. Le, Judith E. Goldstein, Chris Bradley, Thilaka Arunachalam, Emily Y. Chew | 11:30 AM | Exhibit Hall |
| Recalibration of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire and associations with age-related macular degeneration in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study | Jimmy T. Le, Susan Vital, Thilaka Arunachalam Chris Bradley, Judith E. Goldstein, Emily Y. Chew | 11:30 AM | Exhibit Hall |
| Geographic atrophy: a prospective longitudinal analysis of macular sensitivity using microperimetry | Thilaka Arunachalam, Brett Jeffrey, Catherine Cukras, Emily Y. Chew, Wai T. Wong Tiarnan D. Keenan | 3:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| Anaphylatoxins increase transposable element expression in human retinal pigment epithelium | Congxiao Zhang, Joys Annika David, David McGaughey, Andrew Fause, Ruchi Sharma, Kapil Bharti | 3:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
Tuesday April 25
Poster Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piezo1 channels highly expressed in human RPE | Qin Wan, Joys Annika David, Congxiao Zhang, Tea Soon Park, Mitra Farnoodian, Eric Nguyen Jair Montford, Colby Lewallen, Aman George, Kiyoharu Miyagishima, David McGaughey, Davide Ortolan, Devika A. Bose, Arvydas Maminishkis, Ruchi Sharma, Kapil Bharti | 11:45 AM | Exhibit Hall |
Wednesday April 26
Paper Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human iPSC-derived Microglia Cells Show Integration into Microglia-depleted Mouse Retina and Recapitulate Features of Endogenous Microglia | Wenxin Ma, Lian Zhao, Biying Xu, Robert Fariss, T. Michael Redmond, Wei Li, Wai T. Wong | 2:15 | R02-R03 |
| In vivo structural and functional assessment of cells near outer retinal crystals in Bietti Crystalline Dystrophy | Tao Liu, Nicole Carvajal, Nancy Aguilera, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, John Giannini, Furu Zhang, Marisa Boyle, Maximilian Pfau, Wadih M. Zein, Laryssa Huryn, Johnny Tam | 2:15 PM | La Nouvelle C |
Poster Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| The long noncoding RNA LINC00276 mediates RPE differentiation through its interaction with hnRNPL | Samuel William, Camasamudram Vijayasarathy, Lisa Jenkins, Sheetal Uppal, Todd Duncan, T. Michael Redmond | 2:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| Dissecting the entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 in ARPE-19 cells | Sheetal Uppal, Olga A. Postnikova, Eugenia Poliakov, Igor Rogozin Rafael Villasmil, T. Michael Redmond | 2:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| Correlations of Optical Coherence Tomography Measurements to Visual Function in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa | Amisha Dave, Leah Cobb, Laryssa Huryn, Wadih M. Zein, Brian P. Brooks, Catherine A. Cukras | 2:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
| PRO-EYS: retinal degeneration-associated EYS alleles and genotype-phenotype correlations | Bin Guan | 2:15 PM | Exhibit Hall |
Thursday April 27
Paper Sessions
| Title | Authors | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Phase II Trial Evaluating Oral Minocycline in the Treatment of Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Tiarnan D. Keenan, Clare C. Bailey, Sunil Bellur, Thilaka Arunachalam, Cathy Kangale-Whitney, Maria Abraham, Christine Orndahl, Supriya Menezes, Brett Jeffre, Henry Wiley, Alisa Thavikulwat, Catherine Cukras, Emily Y. Chew, Wai T. Wong | 10:30 AM | Great Hall BC |
| Compromised Information Processing at the First Visual Synapse in a Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa RP59 | Johan Pahlberg, Irina Ignatov, Ulisse Bocchero, Mai N. Nguyen, Jeffrey D. Messinger, Steven J. Fliesler, Steven J. Pittler | 12:45 PM | 244 |