The pupil is the aperture through which light passes into the eye and is created by the circular ring of thin muscles known as the iris. These images are from a pupilloplasty made with a 10.0 prolene suture. Pupilloplasties are designed to reconstruct the shape of the pupil, typically after traumatic damage or other surgical …
Palm Warbler
Male Common Yellowthroat
Photovoltaic Retinal Prosthesis With High Pixel Density
Retinas are complex systems and engineered rescues of vision loss through bionic means have to date been inelegant solutions. Retinal bionic implants have historically not been successes due to some glaring problems including how to power them and how to get the appropriate current close enough to the cells to induce a response. However, researchers …
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Dry Tortugas Great Blue Heron
American Redstart
Red Shouldered Hawk
Black-throated Green Warbler
The Synaptic Basis of Rod-Cone Pathway Interactions
Diffusely-Stratified OFF Cone Bipolar Cell Inputs to Amacrine Cells in the ON Inner Plexiform Layer
Retinal Metabolic Response to Cigarette Smoke
Histologic Correlation of OCT With Diseased Retina In Humans
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 …
Review: Optogenetic Investigation of Neural Circuits Underlying Brain Disease in Animal Models
Kay M. Tye and Karl Deisseroth have published a really nice review paper in Nature Reviews on using optogenetics toolkits to study neural systems for brain disease. While the real emphasis of their review is on using optogenetics for behavioral research and they only mention vision in passing with a couple of nods to two of Busskamp’s …
Building Retinal Connectomes
