Our paper on direction selectivity in the primate retina is out in Current Biology! We (@jay_neitz lab with Soetedjo & Rieke labs) identified a candidate homolog to the ON dsRGC that receives starburst input and projects to the accessory optic system. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Power of comparative connectomics. Convincing evidence from anatomy that monkey retina (like mouse & rabbit) computes the direction of a moving stimulus.

How many neurons do you really need for invariant visual representations? Not many! Read more from my thesis work, out now in the latest issue of Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…

ARIA (Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance) is a collection of 5 independent laboratories in #RochesterNY that collaborate to develop and use adaptive optics imaging to achieve detailed images of the living eye. CVSUoR Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience Flaum Eye Institute UR Medicine

Such a great time at FASEB! Already looking forward to the next one

Looking forward to this opportunity to talk about cone-opponent inputs to ipRGCs!

So thrilled that this is finally in print! cell.com/cell-reports/f… Please visit rgctypes.org and let's keep interacting as a community and make the retina the premier vertebrate circuit for cross-modal neuronal classification.

1/ New preprint from the lab, spearheaded by (twitterless) Steffen Nitsche. Analyzing how ganglion cells in primate retina respond to saccade-like image shifts. Thanks for the support, European Research Council (ERC). #ERCCoG biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to announce our preview in Cell Reports Methods: An optical approach for mapping functional connectivity at single-cell resolution in brain circuits cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Our article on motion sensing properties of bipolar cells in the retina is out in Nature Communications First authors Marili Korympidou and Sarah Strauss! My first article as ✨senior author✨! It's been an intellectual journey since the preprint stage, see 🧵! nature.com/articles/s4146…

So excited this is out nature 🎉 Pupil dilation with internal brain state rapidly shifts neural feature/color selectivity in mouse visual cortex by switching between rod&cone photoreceptors👁️🧠 nature.com/articles/s4158… Shared work with Konstantin Willeke, Andreas Tolias Lab @ Stanford University & sinzlab

New @bioRxiv led by @MawaSeifert: Birds communicate from eye to brain using a fundamentally different code compared to mammals. bit.ly/3z0INh4 A thread...

Tyler Godat superb PhD thesis defense yesterday ⁦Institute of Optics⁩ ⁦CVSUoR⁩ #ARIA #AdaptiveOptics #Retina #GanglionCells ⁦David Williams Lab⁩; Congrats!!! 👏🏼👏🏼🧑‍🎓🏅

The retina contains numerous cell types. To what extent are retinal cell types conserved across species that greatly differ in visual needs? Our new preprint attempts to shed light on this question by integrating single-cell transcriptomic data from 17 vertebrate species.

Totally excited to be co-chairing this mini-symposium Society for Neuroscience (SfN) with Katrin Franke Thrilled to be speaking about color processing in the early visual system with Takeshi Yoshimatsu, Sara Patterson, Tim Brown from Uni Manchester, @rudybehnia and Greg Horwitz at UW PBio

Rochester researchers Sara Patterson Sara Patterson & David Williams harnessed adaptive optics to gain insight into the complex workings of the retina and its role in processing color. #URochesterResearch Institute of Optics ARIA Rochester Flaum Eye Institute rochester.edu/newscenter/ret…

Tell everybody you know: We have a hot summer of retinal science coming up with 3 amazing speakers! CVSUoR Flaum Eye Institute Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience Levi Todd Frans Vinberg Sara Patterson. Links for zoom and livestreaming on YouTube/Facebook will be available at: cvs.rochester.edu/events/index.h…