NGS-based diagnostic genetic testing platforms for inherited retinal dystrophies

• Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Angewandte Genomik:
  Olaf Riess, Tobias Haack, Tilman Heinrich, Karin Schäferhoff, Pascale Fisel
• Praxis für Humangenetik, Tübingen:
  Saskia Biskup, Carolin Obermaier, Corina Heller

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
  Gael Manes, Vicky Kalatzis
• McGill University Health Centre Montreal, Montreal Canada
  Robert K. Koenekoop
• 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
• Polish Center for Technology Development, Wroclaw – Poland
  Anna Tracewska-Siemiatkowska
• Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  G. Jane Farrar
• 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, John Heckenlively (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, Yaumara Perdomo Trujillo (University Clinics Strasbourg, France)
• Irene Gottlob (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
• Elise Heon, Ajoy Vincent (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toroto, Canada)
• Samuel G. Jacobson (Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• Andreas Janecke (Department for Medical Genetics, University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Ulrich Kellner (RetinaScience, Augenzentrum Siegburg, Germany)
• Maciej Krawczyński (Center for Medical Genetics, Poznan, Poland)
• Jonathan Lin (Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA)
• Birgit Lorenz, Markus Preising (University Eye Hospital, Giessen)
• 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)
• Thomas Rosenberg, Mette Bertelsen (Kennedy Center, Hellerup, Denmark)
• Balasz Varsanyi (Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pécs Medical School, Pécs, Hungary)
• Christina Zeitz, Isabelle Audo (Institute de la Vision, Paris, France)

Generation and Characterization of Animal Models

• Peter Ruth (Institute of Pharmacy, University of Tuebingen)
• Thomas Euler, Thomas Münch, 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)
• Stephan Neuhauss (Dept. of Zoology, University of Zurich)

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

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