8:30 - 8:55

Registration and continental breakfast

8:55 - 9:00

Welcome – Harris Ripps, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago

Session I - Stem Cells

9:00 - 9:30

Shunbin Xu, MD, PhD
Rush University
"Mammalian Retinal Stem Cells and Retinal Development”

9:30 - 10:00

Robert Lavker, PhD
Northwestern University
“Properties of Epithelial Stem Cells of the Anterior Segment”

10:00 - 10:30

Ali Djalilian, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Clinical Applications of Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells"

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

James Funderburgh, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Cless Lecture: "Stem Cells in the Corneal Stroma: Visualizing the Path to Corneal Regenerative Therapy"

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch / Poster session

Session II - Hypoxia and Ocular Disease

1:30 - 2:30

Peter Campochiaro, MD
Wilmer Eye Institute
Alcon Lecture: “New Treatments for Retinal Vascular Disease”

2:30 - 3:00

Robert Linsenmeier, PhD
Northwestern University
"Oxygen in the Retina"

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 3:45

Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Northwestern University
"Mitochondria as a signaling organelle"

3:45 - 4:15

Robert Folberg, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Vasculogenic Mimicry"

4:15 - 5:00

Reception