Preliminary Programme
 

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🔬 Research Day 1 – 18th September 2025

9:00 Open Ceremony

 

9.30 C1 What did we learn from eye movements about the cerebellum

David Zee (Baltimore)

10.00 C1 Integrative network models in dystonias – lessons learned from eye movements and applied to movement disorders

Aasef Shaikh (Cleveland)

10.30 C1. Models of Saccades

Caroline Froment (Lyon)

 

11.00 Coffee Break

 

11.30 C2. Visually guided behaviour

TBA

12.00 C2. Locomotor learning under climbing fiber control

Alice Geminiani (Lisboa)

12.30 C2. Gaze and Posture

TBA

 13.00 Lunch Break

 14.00 C3. Visual neuroscience and clinical translation in neurodevelopmental disorders

Miguel Castelo-Branco (Coimbra)

14.30 C3. Mechanisms of perceptual decision making

João Castelhano (Coimbra)

15.00 C3. Mechanisms of visual plasticity in humans

Otília Cardoso d’ Almeida (Coimbra)

 

15.30 Coffee Break

 

16.00 C4. Computational models of saccades

Stephano Ramat (Pavia)

16.30 C4. Models of peripheral positional nystagmus

Anita Bandhari (Jaipur)

17.00 C4. Models of central positional nystagmus

Alexander Tarnutzer (Zurich)

🩺 Clinical Day 1 – 19th September 2025

 

9.00 C1. Tips, tricks and pearls to diagnose eye movement disorders

David S. Zee (Baltimore)

9.30 C1. Approach to jerk nystagmus

Alexander Tarnutzer (Zurich)

10.00 C1. Approach to pendular nystagmus

Caroline Froment (Lyon)

10.30 Case Presentation

 

10.45 Coffee Break

 

11.00 C2. High level view of computational modeling in clinical neurology

Joe Paton (Lisboa)

11.30 C2. Membrane based models of disorders of saccades and gaze-holding – implication in autoimmune disorders

Aasef Shaikh (Cleveland)

12.00 C2. Saccades and saccadic intrusions in neurodegenerative disorders

Janet Rucker (New York)

12.30 Case Presentation

 

12.45 Lunch Break

 

14.00 C3. Gene therapy for retinal diseases

Pedro Antas (Lisboa)

14.30 C3. Hereditary ataxias

Alessandra Rufa (Siena)

15.00 C3. Hereditary optic neuropathies

Sérgio Estrela (Porto)

15.30 Case Presentation

 

15.45 Coffee Break

 

16.00 C4. Computational modeling of ocular motor plant

Stephano Ramat (Pavia)

16.30 C4. Approach to strabismus

Fatema Ghasia (Cleveland)

17.00 C4. Eye movements in myasthenia and related disorders

Joao Lemos (Coimbra)

17.30 Case Presentation


🩺 Clinical Day 2 – 20th September 2025

9.00 C5. What do the eye movements teach us about fatigue in multiple sclerosis

Alessandro Serra (Cleveland)

9.30 C5. Afferent visual function in multiple sclerosis

João Lemos (Coimbra)

10.00 C5. The optic nerve in neuromyelitis optical spectrum disorders/MOGAD

Alessandro Serra (Cleveland)

10.30 Case Presentation

 

10.45 Coffee Break

 

11.00 C6. Artificial Intelligence and retinal Imaging to diagnose neurodegenerative disorders

Rui Bernardes (Coimbra)

11.30 C6. Ischemic optic neuropathy

Pedro Fonseca (Coimbra)

12.00 C6. Differential diagnosis of disc edema: intracranial hypertension and more

Marta Macedo (Funchal)

12.30 Case Presentation

 

12.45 Lunch Break

 

14.00 C7. Migraine and visual phenomena: lessons learned from structural and functional imaging

Raquel Gil Gouveia (Lisboa)

14.30 C7. How to interpret visual fields

Carolina Bruxelas (Lisboa)

15.00 C7. Pupils in neuro-ophthalmology

Carolina Bruxelas (Lisboa)

15.30 Case Presentation

 

15.45 Coffee break

 

16.00 C8. Retinal imaging in animal models: searching for biomarkers of neurodegeneration

Sara Oliveira (Coimbra)

16.30 C8. Retinal imaging in humans: the clinical use of optical coherence tomography in assessing retrograde degeneration in post-chiasmal, chiasmal, and pre-chiasmal disease

Dália Meira (Vila Nova de Gaia) 

17.00 C8. Applied visual electrophysiology

Miguel Raimundo (Coimbra) 

17.30 Case Presentation

 

17.45 End

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