Scientific Program of the Satellite Scientific Meeting – Symposium 2020
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Thursday, November 5th 2020
8:30- 8:45 Opening Remarks: SYLVAIN CHEMTOB, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, PhD
Tenured Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Pharmacology, University of Montreal; Professor affiliated, Department of Pharmacology, McGill University; Paediatrician and Researcher, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre; Researcher at the Centre de recherche de l’Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal
Session no.1 – Moderator: BRUNO LARRIVÉEE, PhD
Director of the Developmental and Pathological Angiogenesis Research Unit and Researcher, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Research Centre; Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal, Montreal
8:45-9:15 MODIFICATION “ Noncanonical TGFb Signaling is Crucial for Specialized Neuroretina Tip-Cells Sprouting and Blood-Retina Barrier Formation ”
MODIFICATION ALEXANDRE DUBRAC, PhD
Researcher, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre; Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal
9:15-9:25 Question Period
9:25-9:50 MODIFICATION “ Contributions of Neurovascular Abnormalities to Autism Spectrum Disorders ”
MODIFICATION BAPTISTE LACOSTE, PhD
Assistant Professor and Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Scientist, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institutes, Neuroscience program, University of Ottawa, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Ottawa
9:50-10:00 Question Period
10:00-10:30 “ Brain arteriovenous malformations: genetic origin, signaling and potential therapies ”
IVAN RADOVANOVIC, MD, PhD, FMH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and University of Toronto and Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto
10:30-10:40 Question Period
10:40-11:00 Pause / Break
⇒ Session will start at 11h10. Thank you!
Session no.2 – Moderator: PRZEMYSLAW (Mike) SAPIEHA, PhD
Director of the Neurovascular Eye Disease Research Unit and Researcher, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Research Centre; Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal; Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal
11:00-11:30 “ Metabolism of the visual cycle and the activity of lecithin retinol acyltransferase from the retinal pigment epithelium ”
CHRISTIAN SALESSE, PhD
Full Professor and Regular Researcher, Département d’ophtalmologie et d’oto-rhino-laryngologie – chirurgie cervico-faciale, CHU de Quebec Research Centre, Université Laval, Québec
11:30-11:40 Question Period
11:40-12:05 “ First Good News for 2020: Gene Therapy for Retinopathies ”
FLAVIO REZENDE, MD, PhD
Ophtalmologist (surgeon rétinologue) and Associate Professor, Department of ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal, Centre universitaire d’ophtalmologie de l’Université de Montréal – Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal
12:05-12:15 Question Period
12:15- 12:30 Closing Remarks: SYLVAIN CHEMTOB, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, PhD
12:30 End of the event
