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  1. Seminar: Barry Willardson, Chaperone-mediated assembly of G protein complexes

    Barry Willardson, professor at Brigham Young University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will be delivering a seminar, Chaperone-mediated assembly of G protein complexes on May 29th, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in the John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium on the 1st floor.

    May 20, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  2. New Webvision Chapter: Evolution of Phototransduction, Vertebrate Photoreceptors and Retina

    After much work by a number of our contributors, not the least of whom is the author of this particular effort, we have a spectacular new addition to Webvision:  A section on the Evolution of Phototransduction, Vertebrate Photoreceptors and Retina by Trevor D. Lamb.  Be sure to check it out and let us know what you [...]

    May 15, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  3. Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Nikko Ronquillo

    Nikko Ronquillo will be defending his dissertation on Wednesday, May 15th at 2:00pm in the Moran Eye Center auditorium on the 1st floor.  Nikko’s dissertation, performed in Wolfgang Baehr’s laboratory is on the Functional and morphological studies of the NPHP5 mouse model: insights into Senior-Løken Syndrome.    

    May 14, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  4. The Combined Effect With Erythropoietin And VEGF In Retinal Angiogenesis

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by  Zhihong Yang, Haibo Wang, Yanchao Jiang, Manabu Mccloskey and ME Hartnett.

    May 9, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  5. Retinal Metabolic Response to Cigarette Smoke

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Alexandra D. Butler, William D. Ferrell, Alex Woodell, Carl Atkinson, Baerbel Rohrer, Robert E. Marc and Bryan W. Jones. 

    May 7, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  6. Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) Identifies a Mutation in ALPK1 Responsible for a Novel, Autosomal Dominant Disorder of Vision Loss, Splenomegaly, and Pancytopenia

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Lloyd B. Williams, Chad D. Huff, Denise Morgan, Rosann Robinson, Margaux Morrison, Krista Kinard, George Rodgers, Kathleen B. Digre, Kathleen and Margaret DeAngelis.

    May 7, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  7. MRI of the Capsular Bag in Pseudophakic Human Donor Eyes

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Lawrence Strenk, Susan Strenk, Liliana Werner, Nick Mamalis.

    May 7, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  8. Constructive Retinal Plasticity After Selective Ablation of the Photoreceptors

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Corinne N. Beier, myself, Philip Huie, Yannis M. Paulus, Daniel Lavinsky, Loh-Shan B. Leung, Hiroyuki Nomoto,  Robert E. Marc, Daniel V. Palanker, and Alexander Sher.

    May 7, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  9. Sparse Network Principles of GABAergic Amacrine Cell Heterocellular Coupling

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Crystal L. Sigulinsky, J. Scott Lauritzen, John V. Hoang, Carl B. Watt, Bryan W. Jones, James R. Anderson, Shoeb Mohammed and Robert E. Marc.

    May 6, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  10. Activation of Rap1 Prevents Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha-Induced ROS Generation in RPE

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by  Haibo Wang, Manabu McCloskey, Erika S. Wittchen and ME Hartnett.

    May 6, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  11. Tiered Cross-Class Bipolar Cell Gap Junctional Coupling in the Rabbit Retina

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by J. Scott Lauritzen, John V. Hoang, Crystal Sigulinsky, Bryan W. Jones, James R. Anderson, Carl B. Watt, Shoeb Mohammed and Robert E. Marc.

    May 6, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  12. Pure Feedforward Amacrine Cells

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Robert E. Marc, Felix R. Vazquez-Chona, John V. Hoang, Crystal Sigulinsky, Carl B. Watt, Bryan W. Jones, James R. Anderson and J. Scott Lauritzen. 

    May 6, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  13. Light Transmittance of Explanted Hydrophobic Acrylic Intraocular Lenses with Surface Light Scattering

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Liliana Werner, Caleb Morris, Shannon Stallings, Erica Liu, Anne Floyd, Andrew Ollerton, Lisa Leishman, Zachary Bodnar, Marcia Ong and Ali Akinay.

    May 5, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  14. Candidate Gene Study of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birthweight Infants from the Neonatal Research Network

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by ME Hartnett, M Morrison, G Page, M Cotten, J Murray, M DeAngelis.

    May 5, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  15. Knockdown of Müller Cell Specific VEGF Reduces Retinal Neovascularization In A Rat Model of Retinopathy of Prematurity

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Yanchao Jiang, Manabu McCloskey, Haibo Wang, Zhihong Yang, Jeremy Strange, Tal Kafir, John G Flannery, Kenneth Greenberg, Scott Hammond and ME Hartnett.

    May 5, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  16. Retinal Remodeling in a Rat Model of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (SLOS)

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Steven J. Fliesler, Christopher C. Goulah, W. Drew Ferrell, Robert E. Marc and Bryan W. Jones.

    May 5, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  17. Leaving for ARVO 2013

    We are on our way to ARVO, 2013 in Seattle, Washington to participate in the largest gathering of vision scientists and clinicians in the world.  It’s the annual meeting of researchers presenting and discussing all things vision and ophthalmology and a large group from the Moran Eye Center will be going. Over the next few days, you will [...]

    May 4, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  18. Interesting paper: Characterization Of Neurite Outgrowth And Ectopic Synaptogenesis In Response To Photoreceptor Dysfunction

    Authors Stylianos Michalakis, Karin Schäferhoff, Isabella Spiwoks-Becker, Nawal Zabouri, Susanne Koch, Fred Koch, Michael Bonin, Martin Biel, and Silke Haverkamp have a new paper out that looks at the earliest gene microarray analysis results associated with neurite outgrowth in the degenerate retina.  The title is a overly broad, but the results focusing on gene expression changes [...]

    Apr 26, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  19. Seminar: Shannon Boye, Gene Therapy for Photoreceptor-Mediated Retinal Disease: Leber Congenital Amaurosis-1 (LCA1)

    Shannon Boye, assistant professor, University of Florida Department of Ophthalmology will be delivering a seminar, Gene Therapy for Photoreceptor-Mediated Retinal Disease: Leber Congenital Amaurosis-1 (LCA1) on May 16th, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in the John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium on the 1st floor.

    Apr 25, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  20. Building Retinal Connectomes

    There has been quite a bit of discussion of connectomes in the last while with President Obama’s new BRAIN initiative.  It is important to consider some of the requirements of obtaining a true synapse level wiring map in the brain as many are articulating from this initiative.  While there are new technologies that will be [...]

    Apr 22, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  21. Seminar: Monica Vetter, Neurogenesis And Neurodegeneration In The Retina

    Monica Vetter, Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah will be delivering a seminar, Neurogenesis And Neurodegeneration In The Retina on April 23rd, 2013 at 12:00 Noon in the John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium. Abstract: A continuum of events throughout life are essential to acquire and maintain normal vision. This includes [...]

    Apr 17, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  22. What Do Whales See?

    This beautiful article in The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal talks about the eyes of cetaceans or whales and has some beautiful imagery from photographer Bryant Austin.  More importantly, the article asks: “So, what does the world look like to a whale?” which is a fundamental question in comparative anatomy. The really unusual thing about this article [...]

    Apr 9, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  23. Interesting Paper: Precedence Of The Eye Region In Neural Processing Of Faces

    Just seeing an eye… and only the eye is enough to establish the first components of neural facial recognition.  In this interesting paper by Elias B. Issa and James J. DiCarlo, the authors found using a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the first stage in the primate visual/face processing circuitry is tuned [...]

    Apr 8, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  24. Visual Cortex Neuron

    This is a fluorescently tagged primary visual cortex neuron from a light microscope capture of a brain slice preparation.  These data were focus stacked revealing a tremendous amount of detail including the spines.  Focus stacking is common method in confocal microscopy, but many folks do not realize that you can also do it with traditional [...]

    Apr 5, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  25. Silicone Oil In Anterior Chamber

    This image shows a slit lamp retro-illumination photograph through dilated pupil revealing silicone oil in anterior chamber following retinal re-attachment surgery.  Silicone oil is a commonly used approach for retinal tamponade during surgery in the vitreous or for retinal reattachment surgery.  While the silicone does assist with successful reattachment, often it causes optical complications resulting [...]

    Apr 1, 2013 — Read more No Comments