CRATER 2.0 program

October 8-10 2025

Day 1 – October 8, 2025

  • 8:00

    Registration & coffee & cookies

  • 9:00

    Welcome remarks

    Maciej Wojtkowski
  • 9:30

    Plenary: Translating a stem cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration into the clinic: An update from the London Project to Cure Blindness

    Amanda Carr
  • 10:00

    Plenary: Hidden in Plain Sight - Microscopic Secrets of Clinical OCT Images Revealed Using Multi-Perspective Non-Confocal Adaptive Optics SLO

    Richard B. Rosen
  • 10:30

    Coffee break

  • 11:00

    Plenary: Extracellular Vesicles and Complement Activation Drive AMD Pathogenesis in Patient-Derived RPE Cells

    Majlinda Lako
  • 11:25

    Plenary: Optical Tomography of the Cornea: From backscattering to forward scattering

    Claude Boccara
  • 11:50

    Plenary: Retinal gene therapy - opportunities and challenges

    James Bainbridge
  • 12:15

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Jennifer Hunter
  • 12:40

    Lunch break

  • 14:00
    Parallel I.1
    Aula A
    Invited: In silico and in vitro screening of rod opsin mutants and development of small chaperones with therapeutic potential
    Karl-Wilhelm Koch
    14:20
    Invited: Beyond cell death: altered mechanisms and therapy insights in a new mouse model of GUCA1A cone-rod dystrophy
    Daniele Dell’Orco
    14:40
    From Molecular Motion to Clinical Insight: Protein Conformational Dynamics as Biomarkers in Ophthalmic Imaging
    Humberto Fernandes
    15:00
    Structure and dynamics of human cone phosphodiesterase 6
    Nikolai Artemyev
    15:20
    Parallel I.2
    Aula B
    Invited: TelCaps in macular edema: revisiting the concept of focal vs diffuse rupture of the blood-retinal barrier
    Michel Paques
    14:00
    Microstructural Changes in Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) Revealed by Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy
    Elena Gofas-Salas
    14:20
    The potential of utilizing eye movements as a diagnostics indicator of Parkinson's Disease - retinal eye tracker NeuroFET
    Marta Skrok
    14:40
    The Immediate Effect of Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segment (DIMS) Spectacle Lenses on the Choroidal Thickness using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography in Children
    Lou Ann Christensen Andersen
    15:00
    Optimizing Imaging Modalities to Monitor Cyst-Photoreceptor Interactions in Retinitis Pigmentosa
    Ayoub Lassoued
    15:20
    In-vivo Measurement of Pulsatile Motion of Ocular Structures with Long-range Swept-Source OCT
    Vasantha Kumar Kathirvelu
    15:40
  • 16:00

    Poster session (list of posters can be found below)

  • 18:00

    Welcome reception

    Pracownia Przewrotu Kopernikańskiego (click here to check location)
  • 21:00

    End of the day 1

Day 2 – October 9, 2025

  • 8:30

    Registration & coffee & cookies

  • 9:00

    Plenary: Autofluorescence imaging of the human retina: metabolic marker for health and disease

    Thomas Ach
  • 9:25

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Ethan Rossi
  • 9:50

    Plenary: A MicroED solution to the Lens MP20 enigma

    Tamir Gonen
  • 10:15

    Coffee break

  • 10:40

    Plenary: A bacterial discovery platform for small cyclic peptides that effectively rescue the misfolding and aggregation of proteins associated with human diseases

    Georgios Skretas
  • 11:05

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Ravi S. Jonnal
  • 11:30

    Plenary: Quantitative functional retinal angiography via real-time Doppler holography. Effects of moderate intraocular pressure elevation

    Michael Atlan
  • 11:55

    Plenary: Dynamic FFOCT of retinal explants and organoids

    Kate Grieve
  • 12:20

    Lunch break

  • 13:30
    Parallel II.1
    Aula A
    Invited: Title TBA
    Robert J Zawadzki
    13:30
    Spectral phasor analysis of two-photon excited human fundus autofluorescence: a promising approach for objective retinal diagnostics
    Piotr Kasprzycki
    13:55
    Investigating phase noise in velocity-based optoretinography
    Kari V. Vienola
    14:20
    Optoretinography at ICTER – fast and non-contact in vivo measurements of photoreceptors’ function
    Sławomir Tomczewski
    14:45
    Optoretinography with Time-Domain Full-Field OCT: Achieving Cellular Resolution and Wide Field-of-View Functional Imaging
    Maxime Bertrand
    15:05
    Parallel II.2
    Aula B
    Identifying multimodal molecular programs with topic modeling.
    Marcin Tabaka
    13:30
    Unlocking FFPE Tumor Archives for Single-Cell ATAC and RNA Sequencing
    Natalia Ochocka-Lewicka
    13:55
    Understanding Factor H Related Protein 1 (FHR1) role in Age-related Macular Degeneration using Next Generation Sequencing
    Andjela Sekulic
    14:20
    TBA
    TBA
    14:45
    TBA
    TBA
    15:05
  • 15:25

    Coffee break

  • 15:55
    Parallel II.3
    Aula A
    Invited: Hyperspectral imaging, phasor analysis and deep learning for ocular diagnosis
    Meritxell Vilaseca
    16:00
    Invited: A calibration-free eye-tracker for research and clinics
    Maciej Szkulmowski
    16:25
    The best fixation target revisited: new insights from retinal eye tracking
    Diederick C. Niehorster
    16:50
    Two-photon vision for Augmented Reality
    Katarzyna Komar
    17:10
    Anatomical and physical factors that (might) affect the crystalline lens wobbling performance
    Damian Siedlecki
    17:30
    Deep Learning-Based Retinal Blood-Flow Extraction from Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Imaging
    Mehdi Borjkhani
    17:50
    Parallel II.4
    Aula B
    Invited: Female sex is risk factor for accelerated retinal degeneration via lipid peroxidation in murine RP models
    Henri Leinonen
    16:00
    Invited: Using human feedback to optimise visual restoration
    Matthew Chalk
    16:25
    Invited: All-optical manipulation of retina circuits
    Emiliano Ronzitti
    16:50
    What brain see after the eyes open again?
    Andrzej Foik
    17:10
    Engineering human retinal organoids to study and treat autosomal dominant cone-rod dystrophies
    Carmen Longo
    17:30
    Glial Contributions to Diabetic Retinopathy: Insights from the INSC94Y Porcine Model
    Sweetu Susan Sunny
    17:50
  • 18:10

    End of the day 2

Day 3 – October 10, 2025

  • Celebrating 25 years of Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in ophthalmic imaging

  • 8:30

    Registration & coffee & cookies

  • 9:00

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Andrew M. Rollins
  • 9:25

    Plenary: Label-free functional and structural assessment of in vitro tissues by computational optical coherence tomography

    Yoshiaki Yasuno
  • 9:50

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Rainer A. Leitgeb
  • 10:15

    Coffee break

  • 10:40

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Johannes F. de Boer
  • 11:05

    Plenary: From Ocular Biometry to High-Speed, High-Resolution, and Multifunctional Optical Coherence Tomography - Interferometric Ranging and Imaging in the Human Eye over 40+ Years

    Christoph K. Hitzenberger
  • 11:30

    Plenary: Title TBA

    Marinko Sarunic
  • 11:55

    Plenary: Progress in the speed of en-face optical coherence tomography

    Adrian Podoleanu
  • 12:20

    25 years of Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Poland: celebration of Andrzej Kowalczyk's contribution

  • 12:40

    Lunch break

  • 14:00
    Parallel III.1
    Aula A
    Recent progress in high resolution imaging of anterior eye: From Time-domain Full-field OCT to Transmission Interferometric Microscopy
    Viacheslav Mazlin
    14:00
    STOC-T: From Early Concept to Prototype of New-Generation Noninvasive Volumetric Retinal and Corneal Imaging
    Dawid Borycki
    14:25
    Invited: OCT Imaging of the Vitreous Body: A New Frontier in Ophthalmic Diagnostics
    Ireneusz Grulkowski
    14:50
    Clinical Advancements in Optical Transmission Imaging of the Anterior Eye
    Samer Alhaddad
    15:15
    Line-field spectral domain OCT for fast volumetric acquisition towards in vivo dynamic OCT
    Zofia Bratasz
    15:35
    Parallel III.2
    Aula B
    Transforming Eye Care: OCT Innovations, Robotic Guidance, and Low-Cost Tools for the Future
    Karol Karnowski
    14:00
    Dynamic High-resolution Full-Field Optical Coherence Microscopy of Living Mouse Oocytes and Early Embryos
    Seweryn Morawiec
    14:25
    TBA
    TBA
    15:15
    TBA
    TBA
    15:35
  • 16:55

    Conference wrap-up

    Maciej Wojtkowski
  • 16:15

    End of the day 3 and end of the CRATER 2.0

List of posters

  • List of CRATER 2.0 posters

    P1: Exploring cones in living non-human primates
    Maya Anquetil
    P2: Compact Pulse Compressor for Human Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (TPEF-SLO)
    Patricio Espinoza
    P3: Targeting Retinal Cells with G-deleted Rabies Virus
    Anna Galińska
    P4: YOLO AI for a real time surgical tool classification and pose estimation
    Tomasz Gawroński
    P5: Structural and Functional Insights into Retinol-Binding Protein 3: CryoEM and SAXS Reveal Ligand-Induced Conformational Dynamics Relevant to Retinal Disease
    Luca Gessa
    P6: Color matching of two-photon stimuli projected by scanning laser
    Mateusz Grochalski
    P7: Application of force feedback in robotic assisted ophthalmic procedures
    Krzysztof Gromada
    P8: Beyond the Limits of Optogenetics: Is Signal Amplification Possible?
    Milena Gumkowska
    P9: Application of higher-order statistics to the identification of retinal layers in OCT scans
    Agata Gut
    P10: Accommodation in two-photon vision – application in Augmented Reality technology
    Oliwia Kaczkoś
    P11: PDE6 Conformational Dynamics as a Molecular Driver of Light- Induced Photoreceptor Length Modulation
    Vineeta Kaushik
    P12: Quantifying Retinal Vascular Dynamics with Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
    Julia Kochańska
    P13: Functional mouse retinal imaging using the recently advancing translational eye research STOC-T method
    Wiktor Kulesza
    P14: Manual and remote robot control for ophthalmic applications
    Adam Kurek
    P15: A hybrid time-of-flight-resolved parallel interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (parallel iNIRS) with a fast two-dimensional and a single-channel iNIRS
    Marcin Marzejon
    P16: Recent advances in the Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Tomography (STOC-T) for in vivo cellular-level imaging of the human retina
    Marta Mikuła-Zdańkowska
    P17: Impact of diurnal IOP variations on the multi-spot air-puff OCT measurements
    Jadwiga Milkiewicz
    P18: Speckle contrast analysis in parallel interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy for cerebral blood flow monitoring
    Klaudia Nowacka-Pieszak
    P19: OCT retinal layer segmentation using the DeepLabV3 neural network
    Agnieszka Paściak
    P20: A Viral Vector Approach for Restoring Light Sensitivity with Modified Opsins
    Jagoda Płaczkiewicz
    P21: Microscopic imaging behind scattering media from speckle pattern
    Mikołaj Rogalski
    P22: Inferring multimodal single-cell feature signatures with topic modeling
    Piotr Rutkowski
    P23: Characterization of Visual Information Processing Alterations in the RHOP23H/WT Rat Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa
    Karolina Saran
    P24: Swept source optical coherence tomography imaging by an MOEMS endomicroscopy probe with Mirau micro-interferometer and two-axis electrothermal micro-scanner using Lissajous curves scanning.
    Przemysław Struk
    P25: WUTScope-FPM – a Fourier ptychographic microscope system for ultra high-resolution, label-free widefield biomedical imaging
    Piotr Arcab

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