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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. April 2013 VIG Meeting Announcement

    The VIG is designed as a resource for students and post-docs to present their work/research to their contemporaries and all interested parties who wish to attend and participate. The April VIG at the John A. Moran Eye Center will be held on April 18th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in the John A. Moran Eye Center auditorium on [...]

    Apr 18, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  15. February VIG Meeting Announcement

    This is the first Vision Interest Group (VIG) notice here on Webvision.  The VIG is designed as a resource for students and post-docs to present their work/research to their contemporaries and all interested parties who wish to attend and participate. The February VIG at the John A. Moran Eye Center will be held on February [...]

    Feb 1, 2013 — Read more 2 Comments

  16. Notable Paper: On Cone Bipolar Cell Axonal Synapses In The OFF Inner Plexiform Layer Of The Rabbit Retina

    This paper in the Journal of Comparative Neurology by  J. Scott Lauritzen, James R. Anderson, Bryan W. Jones, Carl B. Watt, Shoeb Mohammed, John V. Hoang and Robert E. Marc is another effort out of the Marc Laboratory For Connectomics that continues to define complete neural circuits to completeness. This paper is another elucidation of data from the first Rabbit Retinal Connectome volume (RC1) that reveals [...]

    Jan 30, 2013 — Read more 1 Comment

  17. Macular pigment imaging in AREDS2 participants: An ancillary study of AREDS2 subjects enrolled at the Moran Eye Center

      This study by Paul S. Bernstein, Faisal Ahmed, Aihua Liu, Susan Allman, Xiaoming Sheng, Mohsen Sharifzadeh, Igor Ermakov, and Werner Gellermann in IOVS examined the macular pigment in AREDS2 patients.  AREDS2 is a randomized, placebo-controlled study designed to determine whether supplementation with 10 mg of lutein and 2 mg of zeaxanthin per day can slow the rate [...]

    Aug 17, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  18. Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Crystal Sigulinsky

    Congratulations to Dr. Crystal Sigulinsky on a successful defense to her dissertation, “Defining the relationship between the homeobox gene Vsx2 and extrinsic signaling in the regulation of retinal progenitor cell properties”.

    Aug 2, 2012 — Read more 1 Comment

  19. Connectomics Analysis of Rod-Cone Interaction Networks

    This poster and presentation was presented today at the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB) meeting in Steamboat Springs, Colorado by J. Scott Lauritzen, James R. Anderson, Carl B. Watt, Bryan W. Jones and Robert E. Marc.  A large size pdf of the poster can be downloaded here.

    Jul 31, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  20. Store-Operated Channels Regulate Intracellular Calcium In Mammalian Rods

    This *very cool* paper in The Journal of Physiology (also featured in the F1000) by authors Tünde Molnar, Peter Barabas, Lutz Birnbaumer, Claudio Punzo, Vladimir Kefalov and David Krizaj examines mechanisms of cytosolic calcium levels in rod photoreceptor cells.

    Jul 20, 2012 — Read more 1 Comment

  21. Cyclin D1 Inactivation Extends Proliferation and Alters Histogenesis In The Postnatal Mouse Retina

    This manuscript by Gaurav Das, Anna M Clark and Edward M Levine explored cell cycle regulation of cyclin D1 and its implications in postnatal retinal development.

    Jul 11, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  22. The Synaptic Basis of Rod-Cone Pathway Interactions

    This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Robert E. Marc, J. Scott Lauritzen, Bryan W. Jones, Carl B. Watt and James R. Anderson.

    May 10, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  23. Visco-Free Phacoemulsification

    This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Balamurali K. Ambati and Brian C. Stagg.  Full size poster can be seen here.

    May 10, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  24. 8-CPT-2-O-Me-cAMP Suppress Laser-Induced CNV in Mice

    Presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by E. Nishimura, M. McCloskey, Y. Jiang, G.W. Smith, H. Wang, E.S. Witchen, R. Koide and M.E. Hartnett.  Full size poster can be seen here.

    May 10, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  25. Preventing Vision Loss in Murine Diabetes by Vascular Stabilization

    This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Judd M. Cahoon, Hironori Uehara, Ling Luo, Jacquelyn M. Simonis, Britt Dubil, Tadashi Miya, Paul R. Olson, Kortnie Walker, Bonnie Archer, Peter Barabas, David Krizaj, Gou Young Koh, Guangping Gao and Balamurali K. Ambati.  Full size [...]

    May 10, 2012 — Read more No Comments