This years ARVO meeting in Orlando, Florida will be attended by a good contingent from the Ulster Vision Science Research Group. David Courtney will be giving an oral presentation on his PhD study while his supervisors Tara and Johnny Moore will deliver a poster presentation at the world’s largest eye conference with over 20,000 delegates attending. Theses presentations are in the ‘Corneal dystrophies and genetics’ session and cover research carried out during the last year by the group into TGFBI related corneal dystrophies, with Johnny focusing on investigating the pathomechanism of the disease and David demonstrating the potential of siRNAs in the treatment of these conditions.
An additional 3 posters will be presented by Julie-Anne Little, Pamela Anketell and Lesley Doyle. They will be presenting related work in accommodative deficits in Autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome populations. One presentation relates to clinical measures of accommodative function, while the latter two report laboratory-based testing. By means of a customised infrared eccentric photorefraction system, accommodative and vergence performance under continuous measurement conditions gives a detailed and novel insight into the typical accommodative behaviour in these two special needs populations.