Retina

Apte Lab
Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Innate immunity and immune effector mechanisms in the retina; oxidative stress and cell death; models of developmental angiogenesis and neovascularization; inflammation and photoreceptor survival; macular degeneration

Chen Lab
Shiming Chen, PhD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Professor, Developmental Biology
The major goal of our laboratory research is to identify the molecular mechanism(s) regulating photoreceptor gene expression in the mammalian retina and the implications of these mechanisms for understanding photoreceptor degenerative diseases and developing therapeutic treatments for these diseases.

Clark Lab
Brian Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Analysis of the temporally regulated program of retinal cell type specification.

Corbo Lab
Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology
We are interested in the transcriptional regulatory networks that underlie the development, evolution, and diseases of photoreceptors in the retina. We are taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of how a network of transcription factors orchestrates the expression of distinct cohorts of downstream genes to build this complex micromachine, the photoreceptor cell.

Ferguson Lab
Thomas Ferguson, PhD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
The laboratory studies the role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal degenerative diseases.

Kerschensteiner Lab
Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Professor, Neuroscience; Professor, Biomedical Engineering
We would like to understand the principles that guide the assembly of neural circuits and to decipher the way they process information. Our efforts concentrate on the mammalian retina.

Morgan Lab
Josh Morgan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
The goal of our lab is to identify the structural and developmental principles that turn agglomerations of cells into image processing circuitry.

Rajagopal Lab
Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy
- neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus

Soto Lab
Florentina Soto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Studies in my laboratory aim to determine the role of ATP-mediated (purinergic) neurotransmission in the mammalian retina.

Williams Lab
Philip Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
My lab is interested in preserving and repairing the nervous system following trauma and disease