March 31, 2023
Silke did it again! $50k grant from Diabetes Research Connection to support our neuroprotection work suing mouse and human retinas.
March 22, 2023
Silke was awarded a $50k seed grant to study cellular orgins of diabetic retinpathy. Congrats!
February 23, 2023
Taylor Boyd was an undergrad student in our lab in 2018 - 2021, co-authored eLife paper and graduated with honor’s thesis. And now she was accepted to medical school at the University of Utah!! We are all very proud of Taylor, congrats!
November 1, 2022, New 5-year funding expected from National Eye Institute!
Our new R01 application about homeostatic plasticity during retinal degenerative disease scored 3% and is expected to be funded early next year! We will be hiring students and postdocs.
September 1, 2022
Good career new for Fatima. She worked with us for 5 years establishing physiological recordings from human postmortem retinas and is now off for exciting next chapter at Genentech, continuing her research in Ophthalmology in industry setting.
June 9, 2022, New publication in Nature!
A lot of hard work from lab members was rewarded by a publication in Nature (606, 351-357 (2022)) “Revival of light signalling in the postmortem mouse and human retina” by Abbas, Becker, Jones, …, Hanneken & Vinberg. This work was led by Dr. Fatima Abbas and focused on developing a new method to study physiology of the human macula from organ donor eyes. Important collaborators include our next door neighbor Dr. Bryan Jones and Dr. Anne Hanneken from The Scripps Research Institute. Paper has been featured in several media articles, videos and podcasts:
The John A. Moran Eye Center; ABC4; KSL; Nature podcast; WYPL-FM 89.3 Eye on Vision; EyewireTV,…
March 1, 2022
Deepa Mathew, PhD, joins the team. Read about her background here.
September, 2021
Master’s student Jordan Allen from the Biomedical Engineering department joins the team. Read more about his background from here.
June 1, 2021
Congratulations to Silke Becker! She is now a newly minted Research Assistant Professor.
Figure 1 from Leinonen et al. 2020, eLife, 9:e59422.
September 22, 2020, new paper out in eLife!
Homeostatic plasticity in the retina is associated with maintenance of night vision during retinal degenerative disease. Leinonen, Pham, Boyd, Santoso, Palczewski and Vinberg, 2020, eLife, 9:e59422.
Featured at NEI news: How is night vision maintained during retinal disease?
Radio interview about the paper with Vance Durbin at WYPL 89.3.
Science Daily article.