Genetics in inherited ocular disease:

NGS-based diagnostic genetic testing platforms for inherited retinal dystrophies

• Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Angewandte Genomik: Olaf Riess, Tobias Haack, Theresia Zuleger, Karin Schäferhoff, Pascale Mazzola
• Praxis für Humangenetik, Tübingen: Saskia Biskup

European Retinal Disease Consortium: www.erdc.info

• Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen - The Netherlands Frans P M Cremers, Rob W.J. Collin, Susanne Roosing
• Ghent University Hospital, Ghent - Belgium Elfride de Baere, Frauke Coppieters, Bart P. Leroy
• Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa - Israel Tamar Ben-Yosef Hadassah
• Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem - Israel Dror Sharon, Eyal Banin
• St John Eye Hospital Group, Jerusalem- Palestine Ala'a AlTalbishi, Yahya AlSweity
• Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel - Switzerland Carlo Rivolta
• University of Leeds, Leeds - United Kingdom Chris Inglehearn, Manir Ali, Carmel Toomes
• Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria-Fundacion, Jimenez Diaz
• University Hospital Madrid Spain Carmen Ayuso, Almudena Avila-Fernandez
• The University of Manchester, Manchester United Kingdom Graeme Black
• Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier France Vasiliki Kalatzis
• Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine Pozzuoli, Naples Italy Sandro Banfi
• Columbia University, New York United States of America Rando Allikmets
• University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe of Valencia, Valencia Spain Jose M. Millan
• Instituto Neurologico Casimiro Mondino Pavia, Pavia, Italy Sabrina Signorini, Enza Maria Valente
• Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland G. Jane Farrar
• Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary, Balasz Varsanyi
• The Hospital for Sick Children, Toroto, Canada Elise Heon

Other collaboration partners in Inherited Retinal Dystrophies:

• Sten Andreasson (University Eye Hospital, Lund, Sweden)
• Kari Branham (Kellog Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
• David Birch (Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX, USA)
• Jaume Catala Mora, Loreto Martorel Sampol (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain)
• Helene Dollfus (University Clinics Strasbourg, France)
• Christina Zeitz, Isabelle Audo (Institute de la Vision, Paris, France)
• Irene Gottlob (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
• Andreas Janecke (Department for Medical Genetics, University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Ulrich Kellner (RetinaScience, Augenzentrum Siegburg, Germany)
• Maciej Krawczyński (Center for Medical Genetics, Poznan, Poland)
• Isabelle Meunier, Beatrice Boucquet (Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier France)
• Günther Rudolph (Universitäts-Augenklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
• Elias Traboulsi (Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
• Stephen Tsang (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)

Generation and Characterization of Animal Models:

• Peter Ruth (Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tuebingen)
• Thomas Euler, Timm Schubert (Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen)
• Francois Paquet-Durand (Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University Clinics Tuebingen)
• Mathias Seeliger, Regina Mühlfriedel (Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University Clinics Tübingen)

Hereditary optic atrophy:

• Guy Lenaers (Institute des Neurosciences de Montpellier et INSERM U583, Montpellier, France)
• Valerio Carelli (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
• Albert Neutzner (Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
• John Neidhardt (Dept. of Human Genetics, University of oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany)
• Stefan Liebau (Institute of Neuroanatomy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
• Ludger Schöls, Matthis Synofzik (Department of Neurology and Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Clinics Tübingen, Germany)
• Rejko Krüger (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Familial Glaucoma:

• Francesca Passuto (Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
• Pirro G. Hysi (Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, UK)