| Thursday 14th October |
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| 18.00 |
EPOS Registration desk opens at Lowry Museum |
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| 19.00 |
Reception drinks/canapés and tour of Museum Galleries |
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| 20.00 |
Dinner - Compass Room Lowry Museum |
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Please note the Thursday reception/dinner is an optional event.
Places must be booked well in advance |
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Friday 15th October |
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| 08.00- 09.00 |
Coffee/Registration |
for delegates not registering on 14/10/04 |
| Session 1. |
9.00- 11.00 |
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| 9.00- 9.40 |
Genetic approaches to identifying
the causes of structural eye malformations |
David Fitzpatrick, Edinburgh |
| 9.40- 10.20 |
The Chx10 homeobox gene family and eye development: remarkable
conservation from flies to humans |
Rod McInnes, Sick Kids, Toronto |
| 10.20- 10.50 |
Coffee |
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| 11.00 - 11.15 |
Mutations in the BCL- 6 co- repressor cause Lenz microphthalmia
and oculo- facio- cardio- dental syndrome |
Graeme Black |
| 11.15 - 11.30 |
Posterior polar cataract
is the predominant consequence of a recurrent mutation in
the PITX3 gene |
Peter Addison |
| 11.30 - 11.45 |
Molecular characterisation
of a familial translocation associated with Peters anomaly |
Eduardo Silva |
| 11.45 - 12.05 |
Deletions of conserved non-
genic sequences - CNGs upstream and downstream of FOXL2 as
a novel diease- causing mechanism in BPES |
Elfride De Baere |
| 12.05 - 12.15 |
Botulinum toxin injection
as a potential treatment for blepharospasm associated with
Schwartz- Jampel syndrome: A case report. |
Faye Mellington |
| 12.15 - 12.25 |
Case report of a family with
anterior chamber abnormalities and elongated pituitary fossae
- a new case of Chitty syndrome |
Katherine Lachlan |
| 12.25 - 12.35 |
WAGR- like syndrome phenotype
without cytogenetic abnormalities detected on 11p13 |
Pedro Faria |
| 12.35 - 12.45 |
Discussion |
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| 12.45 - 13.45 |
Lunch and (Friday) Poster viewing |
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| Session 2. |
13.45 - 15.05 |
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| 13.45 - 14.15 |
Mechanisms underlying the variability of ocular developmental
disorders |
Veronica van Heyningen, Edinburgh |
| 14.15 - 14.25 |
Influence of ethnicity on
the genotype- phenotype correlation |
Anton Gerinec |
| 14.25 - 14.35 |
A genome- wide linkage analysis
suggets that PAX6 is linked to myopia in a sample of dizygotic
twins |
Chris Hammond |
| 14.35 - 14.45 |
Occurrence of Septo- optic
dysplasia in the North- west of England: a geographical analysis |
L Patel |
| 14.45 - 14.55 |
Visual function in patients
with visual pathway maldevelopment |
Branka Stirn Kranjc |
| 14.55 - 15.05 |
Discussion |
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| Session 3. |
15.05 - 16.15 |
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| 15.05 - 15.15 |
Unilateral congenital cataracts:
always caused by remnants of fetal vessels? |
Andrea Müllner- Eidenbock |
| 15.15 - 15.25 |
Iris fixation of foldable
intraocular lenses in ectopia lentis: Surgical technique and
results |
Pascal Dureau |
| 15.25 - 15.35 |
Cataract surgery in infants
with uveitis: IOL yes or no? |
Nicoline Schali- Delfos |
| 15.35 - 15.45 |
Outcome of paediatric cataract
surgery with primary Acrysof IOL |
Narman Puvanachandra |
| 15.45 - 15.55 |
Visual rehabilitation in
aphakia after cataract surgery |
Elisabeth Moser |
| 15.55 - 16.05 |
Prenatal diagnosis of ocular
malformation by ultrasound: Is severe visual handicap or blindness
a "serious physical handicap" |
Danny Morrison |
| 16.05 - 16.15 |
Discussion |
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| 16.15 - 16.45 |
Coffee and (Friday) Poster viewing/commercial exhibitors |
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| Session 4. |
16.45 - 18.30 |
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| 16.45 - 17.00 |
Presentation of lifetime achievement awards: Prof Barrie
Jay and Dr Marcelle Jay |
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| 17.00 - 17.10 |
Mutations in the p63 gene
in Ectrodactyly- Ectodermal Dysplasia- Clefting (EEC) syndrome
and their relevance to the ocular phenotype |
Colin Willoughby |
| 17.10 - 17.20 |
Meesmann' s corneal dystrophy |
Dienke Wittebol- Post |
| 17.20 - 17.30 |
Clinical features of primary
megalocornea |
Aylin Yaman |
| 17.30 - 17.40 |
Childhood cataract surgery
and glaucoma: the importance of corneal diameter |
H. Ibrahim Altinsoy |
| 17.40 - 17.50 |
Control of intraocular pressure,
complications and follow up of children with congenital aphakic
glaucoma and Ahmed valves |
Michael O’Keefe |
| 17.50 - 18.00 |
UBM guided cyclophotocoagulation
in paediatric glaucoma |
Y Foong Choong |
| 18.00 - 18.10 |
Evaluation of optic nerve
head drusen in children |
Arun Jain |
| 18.10 - 18.20 |
Rapid- onset cataracts in
children with neurological disorders |
Marta Morales |
| 18.20 - 18.30 |
Discussion |
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| 19.30 - 23.00 |
Gala Dinner at the Imperial War Museum |
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Saturday 16th October |
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| Session 1. |
9.00 - 11.00 am |
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| Developmental genes and the retina |
| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Developmental disorders of the macula |
Prof Tony Moore, London |
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Are primary cilia the root of all evil in the Bardet Biedl
Syndrome? |
Phil Beales, London |
| 10.00 - 10.15 |
Bardet Biedl syndrome: molecular
analysis of a French Cohort |
Helene Dollfus |
| 10.15 - 10.30 |
Cohen syndrome: molecular analysis of a British Cohort |
Forbes Manson |
| 10.30 - 10.40 |
The phenotype of ADVIRC patients
with mutations in VMD2 |
Bart Leroy |
| 10.40 - 10.50 |
Albinism in a Dutch Family
Associated with Mutations in P and MC1R |
Markus Preising |
| 10.50 - 11.00 |
Temperature sensitive oculocutaneous
albinism associated with missense mutations in the tyrosinase
gene |
Dorothy Trump |
| 11.00 - 11.10 |
Discussion |
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| 11.10 - 11.40 |
Coffee and (Saturday) Poster viewing/commercial exhibitors |
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| 11.40 - 13.00 |
EPOS General assembly |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch and (Saturday) Poster viewing/commercial exhibitors |
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| Session 2. |
14.00 - 15.30pm |
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| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Treatment of metabolic disorders |
Prof Ed Wraith, Manchester |
| 14.30 - 14.40 |
Ocular complications of the
Mucopolysaccharidoses |
Jane Ashworth |
| 14.40 - 14.50 |
Macular pattern dystrophy
and retinitis pigmentosa in MPS- III |
Mary J van Schooneveld |
| 14.50 - 15.00 |
Ocular manifestations of
intracranial venous thrombosis in children |
Raj Das- Bhaumik |
| 15.00 - 15.10 |
The multidisciplinary approach
to periocular haemangioma management |
Ken Nischal |
| 15.10 - 15.20 |
Glaucoma associated with
Sturge- Weber syndrome |
Alicia Serra |
| 15.20 - 15.30 |
Discussion |
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| 15.30 - 15.50 |
Coffee and (Saturday) Poster viewing/commercial exhibitors |
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| Session 3. |
15.50 - 18.00 |
Free paper session |
| 15.50 - 16.00 |
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| 16.00 - 16.10 |
Genetic approaches to Leber
Congenital Amaurosis |
Stephen Tsang |
| 16.10 - 16.20 |
Alternative splicing in AIPL1
- implications on function and the mutational spectrum |
Bodo Janke |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
The Leber congenital amaurosis
protein AIPL1 modulates the nucleoplasmic distribution of
the cell cycle regulator NUB1 |
Jacqueline van der Spuy |
| 16.40 - 16.50 |
Genotype- phenotype correlation in a family with a novel 816delCACinsAA
CRX mutation |
Karina Paunescu |
| 16.50 - 17.00 |
Genotype : Phenotype Observations
in Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy |
Erik van Nouhuys |
| 17.00 - 17.10 |
Discussion |
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| 17.10 - 17.20 |
Structural and functional
outcome in infants treated with cryo or laser therapy for
threshold ROP between 1989 and 2002 |
Ingele Casteels |
| 17.20 - 17.30 |
Racial variations in the
incidence of severe ROP |
Kourosh Sabri |
| 17.30 - 17.40 |
A population- based study
of visual outcome in 10- year- old preterm and full- term
children |
Eva Larsson |
| 17.50 - 18.00 |
Paediatric low- vision rehabilitation |
Saverio Frosini |
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Ten year follow up of Artisan aphakic intraocular lens implantation
in children with traumatic cataract |
M.L. Sminia |
| 18.00 - 18.10 |
Presentation of EPOS travel awards |
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Close of meeting |
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Informal bistro supper |
Pizza Express Salford Quays |
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Please note the Saturday evening supper is an optional event.
Places must be booked well in advance |
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Friday Poster Presentations |
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A novel locus for autosomal
dominant congenital cataract and microcornea on chromosome
1p |
Anita Arora |
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Unilateral optic nerve aplasia
and complex ocular malformation |
Jeremy Butcher |
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Ligneous conjunctivitis in
a 3 month-old boy |
Patricia Domsa |
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Aicardi Syndrome - a mild
phenotype? |
Badia Fahad |
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Aicardi syndrome with pineal
gland cyst and ventricular septal defect |
H. Ibrahim Altinsoy |
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Two-incision push-pull capsulorhexis
for paediatric cataract surgery |
Samer Hamada |
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Medical Iridology |
Steven Harsum |
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A novel extragenic deletion
at the 3' end of the FOXL2 gene in two half-siblings with
BPES and demonstration of germline mosaicism in their clinically
unaffected father |
Katherine Lachlan |
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Corneal thickness in children
with paediatric aphakic glaucoma |
Caitriona Kirwan |
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Central corneal thickness
in children with congenital glaucoma |
Marek Prost |
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Correlation between genotype
and retinal alterations in aniridia as measured with the Ganzfeld
electroretinogram |
Charlotte Poloschek |
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Congenital fibrosis of the
extraocular muscles type 1 (CFEOM1) and Kinesin KIF21A mutation
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Irene Gottlob |
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Beta-B1 crystallin gene (CRYBB1)
mutation causes autosomal dominant congenital cataract.
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Colin Willoughby |
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Visual Results And Postoperative
Complications Of Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lenses In Children
With Traumatic Cataracts |
Nikolas Ziakas |
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Saturday Poster Presentations |
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A case of Robinow syndrome
with superior oblique palsy |
Namir Kafil-Hussain |
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Autosomal Dominant Brown
Syndrome |
Nihal Kenawy |
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Neurological and Dermatological
findings in Sturge-Weber patients with Glaucoma |
Alicia Serra |
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Cryotherapy versus laser
photocoagulation for threshold retinopathy of prematurity:
impact on short term postoperative management |
Karel Allegaert |
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A survey of paediatric low
vision assessment and management |
Julie Lennon |
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Assessment of decreasing refraction in children with hyperopia.
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Aznaurjan Igor |
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Coats-type retinal telangiectasia
in case of Kabuki Make-up syndrome (Niikawa-Kuroki Syndrome)
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Maghizh Anandan |
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Correlation of pattern visual
evoked potentials, visual acuity and optic disc appearance
in syndromic craniosynostosis pre - and post- cranial vault
expansion |
Alki Liasis |
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Ocular Findings In Unicoronal
Synostosis Bronwen |
Walters |
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Ocular aberrations in children
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Caitriona Kirwan |
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Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS) associated with macular degeneration
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J, E Self |
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Silicone Oil in Pediatric
Complicated Retinal Detachments |
Nilufer Kocak |
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A Rare Case of Retinocytoma
Diagnosed in a 12-year-old Child |
Aylin Yaman |
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Cortical visual impairment
as a result of early neonatal hypoxic ischaemic insult diagnosed
retrospectively. |
Loretta Nolan |
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The Iceberg project: a multidisciplinary
database for children with low vision in East Lancashire
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Mey Mohan
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