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Rd2021program.Pdf XIX INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RETINAL DEGENERATION RD2021 Sept. 27 - Oct. 2, 2021 Online and in person at the Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel, Nashville, TN International Organizing Committee John D. Ash Eric Pierce RoBert E. Anderson Catherine Bowes Rickman Joe G. Hollyfield Christian Grimm A scientific conference planned and managed By: Travel Awardees (Note: Presenting authors are underlined. Travel Awardees are in bold.) The organizers of RD2021 wish to congratulate the 101 recipients of RD2021 Young Investigator Travel Awards listed below and funded by the National Eye Institute, NIH, USA; the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA; Pro Retina, Germany; and the Fritz Tobler Foundation, Switzerland. Eligibility was restricted to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, instructors and assistant professors actively involved in retinal degeneration research. These awards were based on the quality of the abstract submitted by each applicant. The Travel Awards Committee consisted of 13 senior retinal degeneration investigators and was chaired by Catherine Bowes Rickman. BrightFocus Foundation Awardees Angela Armento Daniel Hass Marika Zuanon Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student University of Tübingen University of Washington Cardiff University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Manas Biswal Ankita Kotnala Bruna Costa Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student University of South Florida Vanderbilt University Columbia University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shyamanga Borooah Beatriz Martins Miguel Flores-Bellver Assistant Professor Graduate Student Instructor University of California San Diego University of Coimbra University of Colorado [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mayur Choudhary Freya Mowat Yeboah Gyening Senior Research Associate Assistant Professor Graduate Student Duke University School of University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Oklahoma Health Medicine [email protected] Science Center [email protected] [email protected] Arunkumar Ranganathan Antonio Escudero Postdoctoral Fellow Ezequiel Salido Paniagua University of Utah Research Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] West Virginia University UCLA [email protected] [email protected] Sheldon Rowan Assistant Professor Kenya Wilcots Cody Fisher Tufts University Graduate Student Graduate Student [email protected] Lerner Research Institute University of Minnesota [email protected] [email protected] Fnu Ruchi Staff Scientist Felix Yemanyi Allison Grenell national institute of healths Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student [email protected] Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Case Western Reserve Uiversity Medical School and Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Yvette Wooff [email protected] Institute Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] Australian National University [email protected] Travel Awardees (Note: Presenting authors are underlined. Travel Awardees are in bold.) Foundation Fighting Blindness Awardees Divya Ail University of California San Columbia University Postdoctoral Fellow Francisco [email protected] Institut de la Vision [email protected] [email protected] Akanksha Roy Tae Jun Lee Graduate Student David Anderson Graduate Student PamGene International BV and Staff Scientist Washington University School of Wageningen University and Vanderbilt University Medicine Research [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shannon Barwick yeh chwan leong Riccardo Sangermano Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow Medical College of Georgia at University College London Massachusetts Eye and Ear Augusta University [email protected] Infirmary [email protected] [email protected]. Chen Matsevich EDU Andrea Dillinger Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Hadassah-Hebrew University Abirami Santhanam University of Regensburg Medical Center Instructor [email protected] [email protected] University of Texas Health Science center Lynn Ebner Faezeh Moakedi [email protected] Graduate Student Graduate Student University of Zurich West Virginia University Will Spencer [email protected] [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow Duke University Prakadeeswari Anupam Mondal [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow Gopalakrishnan Chi Sun Postdoctoral Fellow National Eye Institute/NIH [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow Hadassah-Hebrew University Washington University in St. Louis Medical Center Nicholas Nolan [email protected] [email protected] Graduate Student Faiza Tahia TJ Hollingsworth Columbia University [email protected] Graduate Student Instructor University of Tennessee Health University of Tennessee Health Bilge Ozturk Science Center Science Center Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] [email protected] University of Pittsburgh [email protected] Karen Tessmer Shivangi Inamdar Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Alvaro Plaza Reyes TU Dresden University of Iowa Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] [email protected] Fundación Progreso y Salud - Yiyi Wang Archana Jalligampala CABIMER [email protected] Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Berkeley University of Louisville-School of Xinye Qian [email protected] Medicine Graduate Student [email protected] Yixiao Wang Baylor College of Medicine [email protected] Graduate Student Sangeetha Kandoi University of Florida Postdoctoral Fellow Peter Quinn [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow 3 Travel Awardees (Note: Presenting authors are underlined. Travel Awardees are in bold.) Laura Whelan University of Pittsburgh and [email protected] Graduate Student Xiangya Hospital, Central South Trinity College Dublin University Chen Yu [email protected] [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow Duke University School of Zhouhuan Xi Yunlu Xue Medicine Medical Student Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] Harvard Medical School NEI Awardees Emily Brown Rinki Ratnapriya Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Heitkotter Instructor Harvard Medical School- Mass Eye Graduate Student Baylor College of Medicine and Ear Medical College of Wisconsin [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dmitri Serjanov Kaitlyn Calabro Tylor Lewis Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow University of Notre Dame University of Florida Duke University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Levi Todd Salvatore Caruso Ekaterina Lobanova Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student Assistant Professor University of Washington Columbia University University of Florida [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Yi-Ting Tsai Eric Enyong Abigail Moye Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University University of Oklahoma Health Baylor College of Medicine [email protected] Sciences Center [email protected] [email protected] Heran Getachew Isabella Palazzo Postdoctoral Fellow Aruna Gorusupudi Graduate Student Massachusetts Eye and Ear Postdoctoral Fellow The Ohio State Universtiy Infirmary University of Utah [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jillian Pearring Belinda Hernandez Michelle Grunin Assistant Professor Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow University of Michigan Duke University Case Western Reserve University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rebecca Pfeiffer Leo Volkov John Han Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student Graduate Student University of Utah Moran Eye Washington University School of Thomas Jefferson University Center Medicine [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4 Travel Awardees (Note: Presenting authors are underlined. Travel Awardees are in bold.) Pro Retina Germany Awardees Tess Afanasyeva Sai Kocherlakota [email protected] Graduate Student Graduate Student Radboudumc KU Leuven Lea Thiebault [email protected] [email protected] Graduate Student Sorbonne Université Eloy Bejarano Fernandez Lorena Olivares González [email protected] Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow University CEU Cardenal Herrera CIPF Ioanna Tsioti [email protected] [email protected] Graduate Student Inselspital, University Hospital of Yiyi Chen Alonso Sánchez-Cruz Bern Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] University of Tuebingen Centro De Investigaciones [email protected] Biologicas Margarita Salas CSIC Jiaming Zhou [email protected] Graduate Student Pietro De Angeli Lund University Graduate Student Maria Solaki [email protected] Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Graduate Student [email protected] Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen Fritz Tobler Foundation Awardees Cavit Agca Marcus Hooper Assistant professor Postdoctoral Fellow Maximilian Pfau Sabanci University University of Washington Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] [email protected] National Institutes of Health [email protected] Avigail Beryozkin Lia Huo Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student Sriganesh Ramachandra Hadassah-Hebrew University University of Toronto Rao Medical Center [email protected] Postdoctoral Fellow [email protected] State University of New York, Duygu Karademir University at Buffalo Hernan Dieguez Graduate Student [email protected] Graduate Student University of Zurich Laboratory
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