Morven Cameron
@morven.bsky.social
Retinal researcher working on dopamine, melanopsin, and adaptation at Western Sydney University.
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After 15 years at Western Sydney University I will be taking voluntary redundancy at the end of this year. I have worked with some really amazing people here over the years. The workload has got too much though and all I do is work. I will remain an adjunct fellow and keep my lab going.
Best costume I’ve seen this year.
@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Best costume I’ve seen this year.
After 15 years at Western Sydney University I will be taking voluntary redundancy at the end of this year. I have worked with some really amazing people here over the years. The workload has got too much though and all I do is work. I will remain an adjunct fellow and keep my lab going.
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
After 15 years at Western Sydney University I will be taking voluntary redundancy at the end of this year. I have worked with some really amazing people here over the years. The workload has got too much though and all I do is work. I will remain an adjunct fellow and keep my lab going.
Drone footage from the Kioloa Neuroscience Colloquium 2025 last weekend. An awesome conference promoting students and early career researchers organised by the wonderful John Bekkers of ANU.
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Drone footage from the Kioloa Neuroscience Colloquium 2025 last weekend. An awesome conference promoting students and early career researchers organised by the wonderful John Bekkers of ANU.
New ocular dissection skill unlocked - hyaloid vessels! This was DIFFICULT. It’s like dissecting a spider web, only possible after an extensive tutorial by Shruti Vermaraju from the Lang Lab.
July 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New ocular dissection skill unlocked - hyaloid vessels! This was DIFFICULT. It’s like dissecting a spider web, only possible after an extensive tutorial by Shruti Vermaraju from the Lang Lab.
Had a great time in Cincinnati, off to Massachusetts now for FASEB.
June 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Had a great time in Cincinnati, off to Massachusetts now for FASEB.
Just arrived in the USA, it’s been a while! Visiting Emory tomorrow, then Cincinnati Children’s later in the week. Then a week of FASEB conference starting Sunday. Looking forward to 2 weeks of intense science chats :-)
June 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just arrived in the USA, it’s been a while! Visiting Emory tomorrow, then Cincinnati Children’s later in the week. Then a week of FASEB conference starting Sunday. Looking forward to 2 weeks of intense science chats :-)
I’m not at ARVO this year, but my fantastic PhD student is! Make sure you check out her poster today in the “Inner retina circuits and function” session at 3pm :-)
May 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’m not at ARVO this year, but my fantastic PhD student is! Make sure you check out her poster today in the “Inner retina circuits and function” session at 3pm :-)
Ionotropic dopamine receptors!? How cool.
Very excited and proud to finally share this story! 🐙
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual system…
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
doi.org
April 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Ionotropic dopamine receptors!? How cool.
Me: “I am interested in measuring something in mouse pups at postnatal day 2”, every breeding pair of mice in our facility: “Let’s always give birth on a Friday” - absolute bastards.
February 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Me: “I am interested in measuring something in mouse pups at postnatal day 2”, every breeding pair of mice in our facility: “Let’s always give birth on a Friday” - absolute bastards.
A long weekend of building, fiddling, breaking things, fixing things, more fiddling and then testing: Cameron lab mouse pupillometer 2.0 is working 👍 (to be fair, pupillometer 1.0 was a cardboard box, so it couldn’t be worse 😂).
February 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A long weekend of building, fiddling, breaking things, fixing things, more fiddling and then testing: Cameron lab mouse pupillometer 2.0 is working 👍 (to be fair, pupillometer 1.0 was a cardboard box, so it couldn’t be worse 😂).
Sam Webster gave a great talk at Western Sydney Uni last week on anatomy teaching. His talk walked us through the evolution of online resources over the last ~30 years, from dial up internet to the present day “inshitification” of the internet! Check him out if you teach anatomy.
December 17, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Sam Webster gave a great talk at Western Sydney Uni last week on anatomy teaching. His talk walked us through the evolution of online resources over the last ~30 years, from dial up internet to the present day “inshitification” of the internet! Check him out if you teach anatomy.
Looks amazing!
More complete announcement to come, but heads-up about a new summer course on Visual Neuroscience at the MBL, Woods Hole! Hands-on training in imaging, EM, bioinformatics, electrophysiology, visual behavior. From octopus to mouse, from retina to brain! Aug.
1-16, 2025 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
1-16, 2025 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Visual Neuroscience | Marine Biological Laboratory
Experience hands-on training in modern visual neuroscience techniques in the new Visual Neuroscience course. Join us for a life-changing experience learning the visual system - and return home with te...
www.mbl.edu
December 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Looks amazing!
Love this, I think there is a lot of morphology we don’t see because of fixation.
Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties.
Threads will follow!
December 2, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Love this, I think there is a lot of morphology we don’t see because of fixation.
Reposted by Morven Cameron
December 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Morven Cameron
Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1
We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long
Addition requests, please see link in the below thread
go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long
Addition requests, please see link in the below thread
go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1
We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long
Addition requests, please see link in the below thread
go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long
Addition requests, please see link in the below thread
go.bsky.app/BotZr1g
I will introduce myself here since lots of people have now moved! My lab is at Western Sydney University, Australia and we work mostly on retinal dopamine release, however I have broad interests in retinal circuitry, adaptation, circadian rhythms, gap junctions, melanopsin and retinal development.
November 16, 2024 at 9:43 PM
I will introduce myself here since lots of people have now moved! My lab is at Western Sydney University, Australia and we work mostly on retinal dopamine release, however I have broad interests in retinal circuitry, adaptation, circadian rhythms, gap junctions, melanopsin and retinal development.
Discussions underway to create an online resource of antibodies that work, and don’t work! This should actually be supported by funding bodies, I wonder how much public money is wasted on antibodies that don’t work? (e.g. we have 5 different c-fos’s- only 2 work!).
Timely article considering I just created a retina antibody spreadsheet after conversation with @annaintegrated.bsky.social and @juanonyme.bsky.social. Happy to share.
It's a well known fact: many commercial antibodies for research don't work as they should.
My latest feature in @natureportfolio.bsky.social looks at what several groups--across academia, industry, and government--are doing solve this problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My latest feature in @natureportfolio.bsky.social looks at what several groups--across academia, industry, and government--are doing solve this problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Discussions underway to create an online resource of antibodies that work, and don’t work! This should actually be supported by funding bodies, I wonder how much public money is wasted on antibodies that don’t work? (e.g. we have 5 different c-fos’s- only 2 work!).
I’m here! May as well bash Twitter with my first “tweet”, “skeet”??
July 31, 2023 at 7:46 PM
I’m here! May as well bash Twitter with my first “tweet”, “skeet”??