100 Papers You Should Read, Functional Organization of Catfish Retina

This is the second paper in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science).   This manuscript, Functional Organization of Catfish Retina by Ken-Ichi Naka is a landmark paper in the vision science communities attempts to classify neurons in the retina and figure out how they process information. Ken-ichi Naka made fundamental contributions …

The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation by Gordon Walls

Matt Reed who hosts a blog, DATADeluge sent this item in, a link to the entirety of Gordon Walls excellent 1942 book The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation, hosted on the Internet Archive.  Walls book was a landmark with beautiful illustrations and well thought out prose that reflects the man.  An obituary to Gordon …

Notable Papers: Otx2 Promotes the Survival of Damaged Adult Retinal Ganglion Cells and Protects against Excitotoxic Loss of Visual Acuity In Vivo

Raoul Torero Ibad, Jinguen Rheey, Sarah Mrejen, Valérie Forster, Serge Picaud, Alain Prochiantz and Kenneth Moya in the Prochiantz Research Group have published a recent paper in The Journal of Neuroscience, Otx2 Promotes the Survival of Damaged Adult Retinal Ganglion Cells and Protects against Excitotoxic Loss of Visual Acuity In Vivo shows that Otx2 can …

“Congenital Pupillary Membrane”

Photographer:  Paula F. Morris, CRA, FOPS  Moran Eye Center. Slit lamp photograph of congenital papillary membrane  – 4 y/o patient Image taken a using a Zeiss clinical slit-lamp biomicroscope with a Nikon D1S digital back at 24 X.

Notable Papers: Self-organizing optic-cup morphogenesis in three-dimensional culture

I was blown away by this paper out of the Sasai laboratory at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology.  Essentially, the Sasai laboratory is trying to recapitulate the developmental process of the retina in a test tube in isolation from the rest of the live animal.  Its a stunning development that appears to demonstrate bilayered optic …

100 Papers You Should Read: DETECTION AND RESOLUTION OF VISUAL STIMULI BY TURTLE PHOTORECEPTORS

This is the first entry in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science).  It is a concept borrowed from Robert Marc in a series of lab meetings he held.  Those lab meetings were so valuable in contextualizing current understanding of vision science that we would like to share some of the papers …