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  1. 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

  2. Normal Explode

    This image for the Art of Vision category was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center is an artistic rendering created from a fundoscopic of a normal human retina and retinal vasculature.  

    Feb 5, 2013 — Read more 1 Comment

  3. 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

  4. Congenital Iris Vessel Crossing The Pupil

    Grand Rounds for today is an interesting finding of an anomalous congenital blood vessel that crosses the front of a pupil, relaxing when the pupil is small, and pulling taut when the pupil becomes is dilated.  The image above is relaxed with a small pupil.

    Dec 13, 2012 — Read more 2 Comments

  5. Dr. Gregory Hageman Delivers Congressional Briefing

    The Moran Eye Center‘s Dr. Gregory Hageman delivered a Congressional Briefing on September 20th along with the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) and partners AMD Alliance International, Alliance for Aging Research, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), European Vision Institute and Lighthouse International.  Dr. Hageman spoke as part of a Congressional [...]

    Oct 1, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  6. 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

  7. Heading To ARVO 2012

    We are on our way to ARVO, 2012!  ARVO is an  annual meeting of researchers and clinicians who’s focus is on the visual system. As happened last year, over the next few days, you will see some of our research abstracts appear on Webvision as the presentations are completed at ARVO.  We hope that it will [...]

    May 2, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  8. Map-Dot Fingerprint Dystrophy

    This is a patient with Map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, otherwise known as Cogan’s dystrophy.  

    Apr 15, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  9. Metabolomic Eye Wins Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

    The image that is used for the avatar here on Webvision has been awarded first place in the journal Science and the National Science Foundation‘s Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for 2011 (video with interviews here).

    Feb 5, 2012 — Read more 2 Comments

  10. Iris Tumor Goniometer

    Iris tumors are fairly common and have been featured here on Webvision before.  Most “tumors” are actually cysts or benign nevi, but malignant melanomas also can occur.  

    Feb 1, 2012 — Read more No Comments

  11. Keratoprosthesis

    This image is from a patient has a keratoprosthesis or artificial cornea.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using a sclerotic scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.  

    Nov 17, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  12. Moran Eye Center Focus, 2011

    The annual Moran Eye Center Focus for 2011 is available here (9.6MB pdf).  

    Oct 28, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  13. Iris Tumor

    This image demonstrates an iris tumor that is sitting in the angle.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using a Goldmann 3-mirror lens scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.    

    Sep 16, 2011 — Read more 1 Comment

  14. Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS)

    Photographer:  Paula F. Morris, CRA, FOPS  Moran Eye Center.

    Aug 13, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  15. Foveal Avascular Zone

    This is normal fluorescein angiogram of a human retina showing the tunic of capillaries that surround the fovea and rather nicely illustrates the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) discussed in The Simple Anatomy of The Retina.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.  

    Aug 6, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  16. Artisan Lens

    The artisan lens is an anterior chamber lens used to treat patients with high myopia.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using sclerotic scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.

    Jul 18, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  17. Ophthalmologic Care In The 1800s

    CBS news has a post up with a collection of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries of ophthalmologic care from the extensive and excellent archives of The Burns Archive, one of the largest collections of early medical photography in the world curated by Dr. Stanley B. Burns.  Note: some images are potentially disturbing.

    Jul 13, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  18. Light-Evoked Synaptic Activity of Retinal Ganglion and Amacrine Cells is Regulated in Developing Mouse Retina

    This paper by Q. He, Wang P and Ning Tian characterizes the developmental profiles of the light evoked excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs from ON and OFF synaptic pathways in the retina, the light evoked synaptic outputs and the sensitivity of the light evoked synaptic inputs and outputs to light deprivation of retinal ganglion cells [...]

    Jun 27, 2011 — Read more 1 Comment

  19. A Photographers Visit to the Moran Eye Center

    A friend of Webvision, renaissance man and photographer extraordinaire, Duncan Davidson visited us at the Moran Eye Center and hung out for a day of science while we performed experiments.  Duncan documented some of the work we did that day in the lovely video he posted to Vimeo above.  You have quite possibly seen Duncan’s [...]

    Jun 25, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  20. Iris Sphere

    We present to you for your Friday viewing, another entry in the Art of Vision category, an artistic image of a montage of the iris and pupil from James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center

    Jun 22, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  21. Stargardt’s Disease angiogram

    Venous phase fluorescein sodium angiogram of a dark choroid in Stargardt’s disease or fundus flavimaculatus.  Stargart’s Disease is a progressive retinal degenerative disease caused by mutations in one of 3 genes, ABCA4, ELOVL4 or PROM1.  The disease is a form of juvenile onset macular degeneration affecting the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE).  The disease onset and progression is [...]

    Jun 15, 2011 — Read more 1 Comment

  22. Axenfeld Reigers Syndrome

    May 27, 2011 — Read more 2 Comments

  23. Penetrating Corneal Injury Pigment

    May 25, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  24. Moran Eye Center Abstracts 2011

    Every year in time for ARVO, the Moran Eye Center puts together a compendium of research abstracts that come out of the research efforts of faculty, post-docs and students here.

    May 9, 2011 — Read more No Comments

  25. Bipolar Cell “Accessory ON” Input to Amacrine Cells in the OFF Inner Plexiform Layer

    May 4, 2011 — Read more No Comments