The lecture series is a forum for today's foremost scientists to present their current research to the scientific community. 

October 15, 2009
Factors influencing nuclear reprogramming

Konrad Hochedlinger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital,Richard B. Simches Research Center, Boston

November 19, 2009
The visual experience of the human infant: normal and abnormal

T. Rowan Candy, MCOptom, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Optometry, Associate Dean for Research, Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington, Indiana

December 17, 2009
Generation of regulatory T cells to an antigen of retinal origin

Dale Gregerson, Ph.D.

Dept. Ophthalmology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

January 21, 2010
Function of lymphangiogenesis and VEGF-C in cancer metastasis

Mihaela Skobe, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York  

February 18, 2010
Probing the Role of RPE Lipofuscin in Macular Degeneration

Sarah Hamm-Alvarez, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Gavin S. Herbert Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, USC School of Pharmacy; Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Ophthalmology, USC Keck School of Medicine; University of Southern California, Los Angeles

March 18, 2010
Birth and Death of Choriocapillaris

Gerard Lutty, Ph.D.

G. Edward and G. Britton Durell Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Ocular Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis Laboratory; Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

April 8, 2010
Cone visual cycle in the vertebrate retina?

Vladimir Kefalov, Ph.D.

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine

May 20, 2010
Novel Mechanisms in Resolution of Acute Inflammation: A New Genus of Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators

Charles Serhan, Ph.D.

Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Womens Hospital

September 16, 2010
Epigenetic regulation of photoreceptor gene expression

Shiming Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

October 21, 2010

The Relation of Uveitis to Spondyloarthristis

James Rosenbaum, M.D.

Head, Uveitis Clinic; Director of Inflammatory Research; Division Chief of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases; Professor of Inflammatory Diseases, Casey Eye Institute - Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR