2019 - St John’s College, Oxford
Nicola Ragge, Patrick Calvas and Nicolas Chassaing were commissioned as Guest Editors to produce a Special Issue of the prestigious genetics journal ‘Human Genetics’ devoted to Developmental Eye Genetics. This involved a worldwide collaboration of international experts to produce articles on the genes, pathways, conditions and therapeutics involved in genetic eye disease and includes both basic scientists and clinicians involved in caring for families with genetic eye conditions. The meeting will bring together contributors, reviewers, and other interested parties in the lovely venue of St John’s College, Oxford.
Professor Nicky Ragge
I work as a clinical geneticist and specialist eye geneticist at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital and surrounding centres in the UK.
I have been Chief Investigator for a national study researching the genetics of ocular developmental anomalies for almost 20 years, with a laboratory research team at Oxford Brookes University.
In addition to identifying genes and conditions related to developmental eye anomalies, I am interested in developing techniques for rapid diagnosis and developing both panels and new customised eye arrays with the diagnostic lab in Birmingham.
I am national structural eye disease advisor for Genomics England and on the Committee for the UK Eye Genetics Group.
Professor Patrick Calvas
I am a medical geneticist, who has been involved for a long time in the field of ophthalmic genetics especially in ocular congenital malformations. I trained in France, Paris and Toulouse. I underwent tight collaborations with Dr Josseline Kaplan’s laboratory of ophthalmic genetics. I led the University Hospital genetics department of Toulouse until 2015, in which I built the molecular genetics laboratory and specialised clinics in the various field of medical genetics.
I am the current coordinator of the clinical Reference Centre on Rare Ophthalmic Genetics Diseases (Toulouse’s branch specialised in paediatrics developmental ocular malformations). I am also the current leader of Toulouse’s research group on ocular developmental anomalies (INSERM/University of Toulouse) and Vice-Chair of the French Society of Human Genetics.
Dr Nicolas Chassaing
I am a medical geneticist working in the Medical Genetics Department in Toulouse, France with both clinical genetics and molecular genetics activities.
My research topic concerns ocular developmental defects and are conducted in the UMR 1056 INSERM - Université de Toulouse laboratory. I am the principal investigator of the rare disease cohort RaDiCo-AC-Oeil which aims to better understand natural history of patients with ocular developmental defects by recruiting patients during 10 years among investigative centres among the whole country
