ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTERS FOR ARVO 2004

ARVO 2004 is amost here! APRIL 25-29th!!
This year we have presenters representing each of our CORE labs.
Click on the paper titles below to read the abstract as well as presentation times and locations. Files open in PDFs.

Wildsoet Lab

"Refractive Error and Eye Shape by MRI"
J.M. Miller1, C.F. Wildsoet2, H.Guan2, M.Limbo2, J.L. Demer3. 1Smith-Kettlewell Eye Rsch Inst, San Francisco, CA; 2School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 3Jules Stein Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

"Thickness and Histological Changes in Optic Nerve-Sectioned Chick Retina"
V.Choh, J.Banh, C.F. Wildsoet. School Optometry, Univ California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Download and view the poster in a PDF (7,796 kb)

"Retinal Pigment Epithelium Function is Altered by Optic Nerve Section in Chicks"
J.M. Rymer, V.Choh, C.Wildsoet. School Of Optometry, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Download and view the poster in a PDF (2,250 kb)

"Acetazolamide, a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, interferes with compensation to lens-induced defocus in chicks"
C.F. Wildsoet, P.Mathur, G.K. Wong. Sch of Optometry, Univ of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

"Altering the diurnal light cycle differentially affects the vitreous chamber responses to negative lens and diffusers in young chicks except after optic nerve-section"
K.L. Yew, C.F. Wildsoet. Vision Science, Optometry School, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Download and view the poster in a PDF (1,262 kb)

"Rearing in constant light disrupts compensation to negative lenses in chicks"
V.Padmanabhan, C.F. Wildsoet. Vision Science, Univ Calif-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Download and view the poster in a PDF (824 kb)

 

Flannery Lab

"A Clarin-1 Knockout to Test Potential Therapies for Usher Syndrome"
J.Flannery. School of Optometry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

"Autosomal Dominant Retinal Degeneration in ENU Mutagnized Mice Caused By a Cys185Arg Mutation in Rhodopsin"
H.Liu1A, X.Du2, K.Ridge3, A.Park1A, E.Chan1A, J.Flannery1B, B.Beutler2, X.Gong1A. ASchool of Optometry and Vision Science Program, BSchool of Optometry and Vision Science Program, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, 1University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; 3Carb, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rockville, MD.

"Vision Loss in Usher Syndrome Type III is Caused by Mutations in Clarin-1, an Inner Retinal Protein"
S.F. Geller1, J.Isosomppi2, H.Makela2, E.M. Sankila2, P.T. Johnson3, J.G. Flannery1. 1School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2The Folkhalsan Institute of Genetics, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 3Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

"Characterization of Outer Segment Transport and Photoreceptor Degeneration in a Rhodopsin Truncation Mutant on Various Rhodopsin Knockout Backgrounds"
E.S. Lee1A, J.G. Flannery1B. AMcb, BVision Science, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, 1UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

"Systemic treatment with Gentamicin slows photoreceptor degeneration in the S334ter-4 rat model of Retinitis Pigmentosa"
K.I. Guerin1,2, C.Gregory-Evans3, K.Gregory-Evans3, J.Flannery1,2. 1Dept of Vision Science, Univ of California erkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2Helen Wills Neuroscience Institut, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA; 3Dept of Visual Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

"Ross River Virus Pseudotyped HIV-1 Efficiently and Stably Transduces Rodent Müller Cells In Vitro"
K.P. Greenberg1A, S.F. Geller1A, D.V. Schaffer1B, J.G. Flannery1A. AVision Science and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, BChemical Engineering, 1Univ of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

 

Fleiszig Lab

"Translocation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Across Intact Corneal Epithelium In vitro Requires Twitching Motility"
S.J. Fleiszig1A, I.Alarcon1B. ASchool of Optometry, BDept of Microbiology & School of Optometry, 1Univ ofCalifornia-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

"Corneal epithelial cells covered with contact lenses demonstrate a reduced innate defense response to bacterial exposure"
I.Maltseva1,2, C.Basbaum2, N.A. McNamara2, S.Fleiszig1. 1Vision Science, UC Berkeley School of Optometry, Berkeley, CA; 2Anatomy, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

"Surfactant Protein D is present in tear fluid and corneal epithelium and inhibits corneal epithelial cell invasion by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
M.Ni1, D.J. Evans1, R.A. Sack2, M.Anders3, S.Hawgood4, S.M. J. Fleiszig1. 1School of Optometry, Univ of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2SUNY, College of Optometry, New York, NY; 3Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Univ of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; 4Dept of Pediatrics and Cardiovascular Res Institute, Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

 

Gong Lab

"Lens Connexins and Coupling Conductance: When Less Is More"
F.J. Martinez-Wittinghan1, X.Gong2, R.T. Mathias1. 1Physiology & Biophysics, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; 2School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

"Lens Fiber Cell Gap Junction Gating"
R.T. Mathias1, T.W. White1, X.Gong2, M.Srinivas3, C.Sellitto1, F.J. Martinez-Wittinghan1. 1Physiology & Biophysics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; 2Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA; 3Neurophysiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. "An analysis of a CP49 missense mutation in 129-based mouse strains"
Y.Sugiyama1, A.Sandilands2, A.Prescott2, J.James2, A.Wegener3, S.Masaki4, X.Wang5, X.Gong5, A.Maatta1, R.A. Quinlan1. 1School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom; 2University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; 3University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 4Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi, Japan; 5University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

"Different Cataracts Caused by Combinatorial Effects of Wildtype and Mutant Forms of Connexins with Other Lens Factor(s)"
X.Gong1, C.Xia1, M.Wang1, H.Liu1, A.Park1, N.Hawes2, B.Chang2. 1Optometry and Vision Science Program, Univeristy of California, Berkeley, CA; 2JAX, Bar Harbor, ME.

"Autosomal Dominant Retinal Degeneration in ENU Mutagnized Mice Caused By a Cys185Arg Mutation in hodopsin"
H.Liu1A, X.Du2, K.Ridge3, A.Park1A, E.Chan1A, J.Flannery1B, B.Beutler2, X.Gong1A. ASchool of Optometry and Vision Science Program, BSchool of Optometry and Vision Science Program, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, 1University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 2Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; 3Carb, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rockville, MD.

"ENU-induced New Recessive Mutations for Retinal Neovascularization and Ischemia"
C.Xia1, H.Liu1, X.Du2, B.Chang3, B.Beutler2, X.Gong1. 1School of Optometry, Univ of California Berkley, erkeley, CA; 2Immunology, TSRI, La Jolla, CA; 3JAX, Bar Harbor, CA.