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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. 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

  16. Seminar: Jennifer Ichida, Contextual Effect In Primary Visual Cortex: The Role Of The Surround In The Structure And Function Of Receptive Fields

    Jennifer Ichida from the Angelucci laboratory will be delivering a seminar tomorrow, February 12th at 12:00 in the  John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium. Abstract:  Visual perception results from the activity of neuronal networks in the visual cortex.  A major challenge in visual neuroscience is to understand how these networks compute the responses of cortical neurons [...]

    Feb 11, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  17. NIH Competition Awards Prizes For Audacious Ideas In Vision Research

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded prizes for audacious ideas in vision research to a number of investigators including our own Dr. Yingbin Fu at the Moran Eye Center. A researcher at the John A. Moran Eye Center has been selected as one of 10 winners by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the [...]

    Feb 8, 2013 — Read more 3 Comments

  18. Vogt Koyanagi Harada Syndrome (VKH)

    This imagery is from a patient with Vogt Koyanagi Harada Syndrome (VKH).  VKH is a presumed autoimmune disease that presents with waxing and waning subretinal fluid.  There is chromic uveitis with other neurological and dermatological symptoms.  The precise mechanism of the disease is unknown, though it is thought that the autoimmune involvement of melanocytes in [...]

    Feb 2, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Moran Eye Center International Outreach

    Here on Webvision, our goal is retinal education and even though Webvision is hosted here at the Moran Eye Center, we nevertheless try to include as much of the wider community as possible in posts and in content, though we will point out work that comes of of the Moran Eye Center from time to time. [...]

    Jan 19, 2013 — Read more No Comments

  22. Seminar: Ocular Consequences of Stra6 (Retinol-Binding Protein Receptor) Gene Disruption In Mice

    Dean Bok from University California Los Angeles is delivering a seminar on October 24th, 2012 in the Moran Eye Center auditorium on the first floor.  Dean will be talking about Ocular Consequences of Stra6 (Retinol-Binding Protein Receptor) Gene Disruption In Mice. Abstract: We generated a mouse modelin in which the Stra6 gene was functionally disrupted to [...]

    Oct 15, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  23. Seminar: Photoreceptor Networks And Color

    Julie Schnapf, Ph.D. from University California San Francisco is delivering a seminar this Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at the Moran Eye Center auditorium on the first floor.  Julie will be talking about Photoreceptor Networks and Color. Abstract:  Photoreceptors are more than just photon transduction machines.  They also communicate with each other, forming interactive electrical networks [...]

    Sep 10, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  24. 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

  25. 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