ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, May 2008
Fang Bian, Baylor College of Medicine, Cullen Eye Institute, Houston, TX, USA. Human Limbal Basal Epithelium-Derived GDNF Suppresses the Stress and Inflammation-Induced Cytokines Through NF-kB Signaling Pathway
Shaohui Liu, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Isolation, Culture and Immortalization of Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells
Flavio Mantelli, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Glycogene Profile Of The Conjunctival Epithelium In Normal And Dry Eye Patients
Ushasree Pattamatta, Institute for Eye Research, Sydney, Australia. Bovine Lactoferrin Promotes Alkali-Induced Wound Healing in Corneal Epithelial Cells by Up-Upregulating PDGF
Sjögren's Syndrome Foundation Award:
Shivaram Selvam, USC Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Impact of Chronic Stimulation with Carbachol, Histamine and Serotonin on Ion Transport in a Novel, Chloride-Secreting Rabbit Lacrimal Acinar Cell Monolayer Model.
5th International Conference
on the Tear Film & Ocular Surface: Basic Science
and Clinical Relevance, September 5-8, 2007 Taormina,
Italy
Amanda Ackerman, UC Berkeley School of Optometry,
Berkeley, CA. Corneal Epithelial Cell Killing Of Internalized
Bacteria.
Jeffrey Bair, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston,
MA. Effect Of Protein Kinase Ca And P42/P44 Mapk On
Egf-Stimulated Rat Cultured Conjunctival Goblet Cell
Proliferation.
Linda Banbury, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia. Steroid Hormones in the Tear Film.
Lilian Chiang, University of Southern California,
School of Pharmacy. The Role Of Rab27b In The Regulation
Of Intracellular Trafficking In The Lacrimal Gland.
Fabian Garreis, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg,
Halle, Germany. Ocular Surface Expression And Regulation
Of b-Defensins.
Kari Green-Church, Ohio State University, Columbus
OH. The Human Tear Film Proteome And Its Potential
Application To Disease Biomarker Discovery.
Vinodh Kakkassery, University Eye Clinic, Essen,
Germany; Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston,
MA. Membrane-Associated Mucins Are Affected By Inflammatory
Mediators On Ocular Surface Epithelial Cells.
Flavio Mantelli, Schepens Eye Research Institute,
Boston, MA. Inhibition Of Galectin-3 Association With
Cell Surface O-Glycans Results In Corneal Epithelial
Barrier Dysfunction.
Cuong Nguyen, University of Florida, College of Dentistry,
Gainesville, FL. TH17 CELLS IN EXOCRINE GLAND TISSUES
OF AN ANIMAL MODEL FOR SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME
(Sjs)
Rachel Redfern, University of Houston, College of
Optometry, Houston, TX. Toll-Like Receptor Expression
And Dry Eye.
Shivaram Selvam, USC Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles,
CA. Ion Fluxes Across Rabbit Acinar Cell Monolayers
On Polyester Membrane Scaffolds.
Philipp Steven, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.
Intravital Real-Time Imaging Of Conjunctiva-Associated
Lymphoid Tissue.
Padmaja Thomas, USC Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles,
CA. Autoimmune Dacryoadenitis Induced By Auto-Adoptive
Transfer Of Cd4+ T Cells.
Tais Wakamatsu, Keio University School of Medicine,
Keio, Japan. Histopathological Alterations In Senescent
Cu, Zn–Superoxide Dismutase-1 (Sod–1)–Knock-Out
Mice: A New Model For Dry Eye.
Ai Yamada, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston,
MA. The Proinflammatory Response Of Human Corneal
Epithelial Cells To Toxigenic Staphylococcus Aureus.
TFOS Travel Awards
ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, May 2007
The award recipients were:
Romulo Albuquerque, DDS, MS
College of Medicine, Univ of Kentucky, Dept of Ophthalmology
& Visual Sciences
Topical Gene ablation of sflt-1 Abolishes Corneal
Avascularity
Shao Lui, MD, PhD
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation Award
Aromatase Influence on Gene Expression in the Meibomian
Gland
Zan Pan, MD, MS
SUNY State College of Optometry
Functional Expression of Transient Receptor Potential
Vanilloid 4 in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells
Hong Qi, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Identification of Neurotrophic Factors NGF, GDNF and
Their Corresponding Receptors TrkA, GFR -1 as Potential
New Markers for Human Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells
Chandra Saravanan
Tufts University
Galectin-3 Promotes Formation of Lamellipodia, Filopodia
and Tunneling Nanotube (TNT)-Like Structures in Corneal
Epithelium.
Fan Zhang, MD
SUNY State College of Optometry
Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) Activation
Induces Proinflammatory Responses Through MAPK Stimulation
EVER, Vilamoura,
October 2006
Winners:
Mario Nubile, In vivo confocal microscopy in limbal
epithelial damage, Chieti, Italy
Felix Bock, Inhibition of inflammatory corneal lymphangiogenesis
by an anti-VEGFR3 antibody (mF4-31C1), Erlangen, Germany
Rita Barcia, Gene therapy promotes corneal graft survival,
Boston, USA
ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale,
May 2006
The award recipients were:
Cintia de Paiva, Baylor, US
Angela Johnson, Case Western Reserve, US
PB Thomas, Doheny Eye Institute, US
S. Xu, SUNY State College of Optometry
World Ophthalmology
Congress, Sao Paulo, February 2006
The award recipients were:
Monica Alves, Sao Paulo University Unicamp, Brazil
Ana Carolina Dias, Sao Paulo University Unicamp, Brazil
Olan Suwan-apichon, Khon Kaen University, Dept of
Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine
Stephanie Watson, Prince of Wales Hospital at the
University of New South Wales, Opthalmology, UK
Cornea Conference,
Boston, September 2005
The award recipients were:
Inna Maltseva, UC Berkeley School of Optometry, Berkeley,
CA
Timothy Blalock, Schepens Eye Research Institute
and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA
EVER, Vilamoura,
Portugal, October 2005
The award recipients were:
Bves Regulates Corneal Epithelial Monolayer Formation.
CHANG MS (1), BADER DM (2)(1) Department of Ophthalmology
and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,TN;
(2) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN
Protection of endothelial cell death against oxidative
stress during acute corneal graft rejection. BOURGES
J-L (1, 2, 3), VALAMANESH F (2), RENARD G (4), DEKOZAK
Y (2), BENEZRA D (5, 2), BEHAR-COHEN F (2, 6) (1)
Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris; (2) U598, INSERM, Paris;
(3) Paris-Descartes University, Paris; (4) H™tel-Dieu
Hospital, Paris; (5) Ophthalmology, Hadassah Hospital,
Jerusalem; (6) Ophthalmology, Rothschild Ophthalmic
Foundation, Paris
Immunomodulatory Role of VIP in a Murine Model of
P. aeruginosa-Induced Keratitis. SZLITER EA, LIGHVANI
S, HAZLETT LD Anatomy & Cell Biology, Detroit
TFOS Travel Award Winners,
ARVO 2005
The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS)
annual TFOS Travel Awards provide partial travel support
to the ARVO Annual Meeting for at least four postdoctoral
fellows, graduate students or young investigators
(35 years or younger) whose ARVO '05 abstract in which
they appear as first author demonstrated significant
scientific achievement in the field of tear film,
ocular surface or Sjogren's syndrome research. Each
award is $750 USD and is accompanied by a free ticket
to the TFOS Cruise & Dinner in Fort Lauderdale.
Audrey Bernstein, New York, NY, USA
Urokinase Pathway Regulation in Corneal Fibroblasts
and Myofibroblasts.
Gabriel Greifner, Jerusalem, Israel
Cell Migration Course in the Healthy Rat's Palpebral
Mucocutaneous Transitional Zone Epithelium.
Tetsuya Kawakita, Miami, FL, USA
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Limbal Epithelial
Progenitor Cells Leads to Intrastromal Invasion, Limbal
Stem Cell Deficiency and Fibrosis.
Peisong Ma, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Identification of Syndecan-1 as a Coreceptor for Prosecretory
Mitogen 'Lacritin.'
Bupe Mwaikambo, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Activation of CD36 Inhibits and Prevents Progression
of Corneal Neovascularization.
Ashish Sharma, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Tumor Necrosis Factor-Induced Apoptosis in Corneal
Epithelial Cells Is Attenuated by Novel Lacrimal Glycoprotein,
Lacritin.
For more information about these awards or future
opportunities, please contact
Rose Sullivan (Rose@TearFilm.org).
