May 5-9, 2024, Seattle, Washington

ARVO annual meeting started with the opening keynote by Ed Yong talking on “Exploring the realm of animal perception” and ended with the closing keynote by Sheril Kirshenbaum’s talk on “Communicating Science”. The meeting was attended by about 12,000 people from all over the world. There were award lectures, Symposia and poster
presentations.

Prof. K. Dharmalingam, Dr. P. Sundaresan, Dr. Gowri Priya Chidambaranathan, Mr. R.Sethu Nagarajan, and Ms. Shreya Dinesh from Aravind Medical Research Foundation attended the meeting. Mr. Sethu Nagarajan received the ICMR Travel Grant and Ms. Shreya Dinesh received the SERB Travel Grant to attend the meeting.

Paper Presentations
R. Sethu Nagarajan, Gowri Priya, Chidambaranathan Kim, Usha, Dharmalingam K, Vanniarajan, Ayyasamy
Inhibition of KIF14 supresses the retinoblastoma tumor progression with favourable outcome

Poster Presentations
Dr. P. Sundaresan, Prakash Chermakani, Shanmugam Maheshkumar
Unravelling Nuclear and Mitochondrial Contributions in Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

Dr. Gowri Priya Chidambaranathan, Sneha Nair, Subbaiah R. Krishnadas, Veerappan Muthukkaruppan, Ayyasamy Vanniarajan, Devarajan Bharanidharan
MicroRNAs regulating human trabecular meshwork stem cells

Shreya Dinesh, Prof. K. Dharmalingam, Dr. Lalitha Prajna, Dr. N.V Prajna, Dr. D. Bharanidharan
Dysregulated miRNAs and their role in Fusarium Keratitis

The poster by Ms. Shreya Dinesh was selected as a Hot Topic.