17th/18th April 2026, Seminaris Seehotel Potsdam – register here
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DEADLINES
Registration deadline: April 10, 2026.
Late registration from March 2, 2026
Abstract submission deadline: March 9, 2026
For any questions on the congress, please contact Franz Badura: franz.badura@t-online.de
For any organizational questions, please contact Katharina Bedenk: info@bevention.de
PROGRAMME
| FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026 | |
| 13:00 | Registration and Check-in |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Welcome reception with coffee and snacks |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Welcome remarks Franz Badura (Amberg, Germany) |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Keynote lecture Hélène Dollfus (Strasbourg, France) »The genetic architecture of retinal degenerations and diagnostic methods« |
| 16:00 – 17:45 | SESSION 1 SELECTED POSTER PRESENTATIONS EIGHT ABSTRACTS TO BE SELECTED |
| 17:45 – 19:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION 20 YEARS OF THE RETINA RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM IN POTSDAM |
| 20:00 | Swingin‘ poster session |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2026 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | SESSION 2 PHOTORECEPTORS IN RETINAL DEGENERATION Session chair: Marius Ader (Dresden, Germany) |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Jacqui van der Spuy (London, UK) »Organoids for modulating hereditary retinal diseases« |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Rachael Pearson (London, UK) »Rewiring the retina after photoreceptor transplantation: lessons from development« |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Melita Kaltak (Nijmegen, Netherlands) »Splicing modulation therapy for inherited retinal diseases« |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break with scientific chit-chat |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | SESSION 3 RPE DYSFUNCTION AS DRIVER OF RETINAL DISEASE Session chair: Diana Pauly (Marburg, Germany) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Susanne Koch (Munich, Germany) »The versatile roles of retinal pigment epithelium in the pathophysiology of retinitis pigmentosa« |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Jacopo Di Russo (Aachen, Germany) »Mechanical homeostasis of retinal pigment epithelium across space and time« |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Karolina Kaminska (Basel, Switzerland) »Bi-allelic variants in three genes encoding distinct subunits of the vesicular AP-5 complex cause hereditary macular dystrophy« |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | SESSION 4 FOCUS ON NON-NEURONAL CELL TYPES IN RETINAL DEGENERATION Session chair: Antje Grosche (Munich, Germany) |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Alessandro Arrigo (Milan, Italy) »Müllerotrophy and Mülleropathy – a clinical perspective« |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Lucas Stürzbecher (Berlin, Germany) »T cells in retinal pathology« |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Daniel Saban (Durham, USA) »Microglia as modifiers of retinal degenerative diseases« |
| 15:00 | Closing remarks Franz Badura (Amberg, Germany) |