Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

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• Innate immunity
• Angiogenesis
• Retinal degeneration

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• Understanding the cellular basis of transparency and accommodation

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• Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

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• Understand the transcriptional landscape to 1) select an individual progenitor cell to exit the cell cycle, and 2) differentiate as a specific retinal cell type at the appropriate developmental time

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• Role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal degenerative diseases

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• Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Biostatistics)

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• Uveitis
• Molecular signatures in uveitis
• Bioinformatics
• Therapeutic biomarkers
• Precision medicine

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• Corneal epithelial wound healing
• Corneal neovascularization
• Corneal stromal dystrophies
• Corneal Stem cells and Dry eye

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• Neural circuit assembly and visual processing in the retina

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• Neurotransmitter
• Synapse
• Glutamate transporter
• GABA receptor
• Retinal information processing

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• Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the establishment and maintenance of latent neuronal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV)

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• Use advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits

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• Pathogenic mechanisms in diabetic retinopathy
• Neuronal damage in diabetes mellitus

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• Comprehensive analysis of genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic datasets to understand visual system development and disease

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• Lens & Cornea: Cataract, Presbyopia & Corneal Dystorphies (Molecular Biology/ Genetics)

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• Glaucoma

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• Role of ATP-mediated (purinergic) neurotransmission in the mammalian retina

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• Neural mechanisms in strabismus

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• Multiple sclerosis
• Neuroimmunology
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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• Ocular immunity

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• Genetic and molecular mechanisms that govern eye development
• Abnormal mTORC1 signaling in the lens
• Anterior Segment Dysgenesis (ASD)

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• Preserving and repairing the nervous system following trauma and disease

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• Molecular and cellular basis of the functional development and regeneration of the vertebrate visual system