3. Me. Talk in session 340 (Ballroom J). Tuesday. 2:30 PM Tusc5 and the role of glucose transport regulation in retinal ganglion cell metabolism and function.
Do you believe that I'm giving a talk on metabolism - with the name of a gene in the title?! Check it out. I think we found something cool.
2. Julia Fadjukov. Postdoc. Talk in Session 313 (Ballroom J). Tuesday. 9:15 AM Characterization of displaced amacrine cells of the mouse retina using function, morphology and gene expression.
1. Zach Jessen. Postdoc. Poster B0011. Monday. 3:00 - 4:45 PM Functional imaging of rod-mediated signaling in the ex vivo mouse retina.
Zach is developing a system to image huge areas of the mouse retina with very little light exposure by using light sheet microscopy and far red indicators.
I am excited to be at #arvo2025 with several members of my lab. Our theme this year is new, unpublished projects. I find all of these especially exciting because they are mostly (1) departures from our past work and (2) intellectually driven by trainees. Chronologically:
Yes it is! A popular science writer sent it to me a couple of days early. She will probably put one sentence in her article after I talked her ear off about it!
You know you are a retinal neuroscientist when you see this shower floor and your first thought is, "I wonder what the voronoi domain regularity index is for those black tiles?"
For those of you who are curious… look up “hyperacuity” and enjoy the rabbit hole of literature that almost all leads back to Westheimer. A chapter of my book is devoted to this field that he almost single-handedly created, and it does not do justice to all the great papers.
Gerald Westheimer is indeed a legend (and Austin Roorda has done a few pretty important things himself over the years 😉). I had the honor of meeting Dr. Westheimer at a virtual forum a couple of years ago and asking him a couple of science questions.
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So sad. What a waste of all your time and that of all the other reviewers. This is hard work! Any idea what they plan to do? Reschedule? Review a double batch of applications next time?
Yeah, but to lessen the load on the investigator to pay the rest off grants, not the department contribution, which can then be reallocated to anything else the department wants to spend it on.
has always been from my own grants). I wonder if the donors know how their money is being spent. I guess this is in the fine print somewhere when they donate? The wording was ambiguous at best in the letter I received when I was awarded the chair.
What is your university’s policy about endowed chairs for faculty? I just discovered that mine (at the medical school at least) is essentially institutionalized embezzlement. The moment I received my endowed chair, my home department’s contribution to my salary went from 15% to 0 (the other 85%
And as far as the output of the retina, I would argue that while the primate fovea is a notable exception, in most species, the majority of retinal ganglion cell spikes are driving these reflex pathways that never make it to perception.
