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John Tuthill joins PBIO as our newest faculty member
John Tuthill, PhD, joined the department earlier this year as a tenure track assistant professor. John studied biology and anthropology at Swarthmore and after working as a technician at the University of Montana and Universidad de Buenos Aires, he entered the Janelia Farm/University of Chicago graduate program. There, he studied motion perception in Drosophila. After…
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What zipped by? Motion detection in retinas
Electrical crosstalk between retinal cells processes information to help render the images our eyes behold – UW Health Sciences NewsBeat
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Science in Medicine presents Fred Rieke, Jan 14th
“Retinal Encoding of Natural Images” A central goal in the study of any sensory system is to predict neural responses to natural inputs. Nowhere is the transformation from stimulus to response better understood than the vertebrate retina. Nevertheless, descriptions of how the retina works are largely based on artificial visual stimuli, and it is not…
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Sharona Gordon Talks about Riding in the Rain
“The rain makes me feel connected to nature,” Gordon says. “The trail is less crowded. What’s not to like?” Gordon is a professor of Physiology and Biophysics who studies how the body becomes sensitized to pain. She bikes to work about four times per week. Her husband, a faculty member in the School of Nursing,…
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Beth Buffalo and Adrienne Fairhall receive Simons Foundation grant
Beth Buffalo and Adrienne Fairhall have received a research award from the Simons Foundation, through the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain. The primary goal of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain is to expand our understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, thereby discovering the…
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Sharona Gordon appointed chair of NHLBI Board of Scientific Counselors
Sharona Gordon has been named chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. The Board advises the Director and Deputy Director on the intramural research programs of NHLBI.
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong