Easter, 2012
Cat Show
Map-Dot Fingerprint Dystrophy
This is a patient with Map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, otherwise known as Cogan’s dystrophy. Map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy is the most typical form of corneal dystrophy. This disorder typically occurs bilaterally in adults from 40-70 years of age when the basement membrane of the corneal epithelium fails to develop properly resulting in sloughing off or failure of the epithelial …
Monument To The Dead, Constantine 1943
The Chi-Bin Chien Award
The Chi-Bin Chien Award has been established by the zebrafish research community and Genetics Society of America in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien (1965–2011). Chi-Bin was Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah and served the international zebrafish community in numerous ways, including as Director of the Zebrafish Neural Development and Genetics …
Quick Trip: SLC To JFK… And Back
Right Now: Somewhere Over Iowa
Fiery The Angels Rose…
Notable Paper: Network Deficiency Exacerbates Impairment in a Mouse Model of Retinal Degeneration
This paper by Christopher W. Yee, Abduqodir H. Toychiev and Botir T. Sagdullaev examines the role that neural oscillations play in normal and pathological states. In a neurodegenerative model of retinitis pigmentosa, the authors examined the activity of neural networks in the rd1 mouse model and compared that activity to the wild type. The authors …
Brain Institute’s 3rd Annual Spring Symposium, The Neurobiology of Sensation
Wasps: The Season Has Returned
An Exercise in Seeing…
Giant Squid Eyes
A recent paper by Dan-Eric Nilsson, Eric J. Warrant, Sönke Johnsen, Roger Hanlon and Nadav Shashar reports on the eyes of some of the most mysterious of creatures, Architeuthis and Mesonychoteuthis, the giant and colossal deep sea squid respectively. We here at Webvision love all things retina and would deeply love to get our hands …
American Kestrel
