Eye Formation & Vascular Growth

We have been working on eye development for over two decades and have expertise in genetic and molecular interactions. We have an understanding of the molecules required to make functional retinal neurons using the frog model. Will you help us figure out how mammalian retinal neurons form?

Our lab believes that we are all in this together. We are part of the Center for Vision Research, which meets weekly to discuss someone's latest unpublished findings. It gives our trainees the opportunity to practice scientific communication. We revel in our shared and individual accomplishments. We welcome collaboration and openness among our colleagues to answer fundamental questions in retinal cell biology. Please contact us if you would like to discuss how our research can work better together.

We use standard molecular and cellular mechanism tools to answer scientific questions about how pluripotent cells of the embryo develop into the complex neural tissue of the eye -- the retina. Our findings have been published in classic developmental biology textbooks & our basic-biological discoveries have paved the way for cell-based therapies for blindness.