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My trip to the Hong Kong Eye Hospital

Sunday, January 29, 2012

I was invited and supported by the Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) International Travel Grant to give a Plenary Lecture at the Symposium on Biology of Ophthalmology 2011 which took place in the Hong Kong Eye Hospital from 11-13th December 2011. The event was organized by the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese […]

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2012-01-14 new articles we read this week

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Retinal Development Kwan KM, Otsuna H, Kidokoro H, Carney KR, Saijoh Y, Chien CB. A complex choreography of cell movements shapes the vertebrate eye. Development. 2012 Jan;139(2):359-72. PubMed PMID: 22186726. Morgan JL, Soto F, Wong RO, Kerschensteiner D. Development of cell type-specific connectivity patterns of converging excitatory axons in the retina. Neuron. 2011 Sep 22;71(6):1014-21. […]

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The making of a machine to test vision of zebrafish larvae

Friday, January 6, 2012

We have recently begun to work on a project that requires us to find out whether a zebrafish larva can see or not. To this end, we have built a small machine to check whether the larvae show a visual behaviour called the optokinetic response (OKR). This video shows the OKR machine, which is essentially […]

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New zebrafish book coming!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

I have requested our library to buy this new book, which contains a lot of useful information (Link to Amazon. Table of contents is available here). This includes several chapters on making transgenic fish (ask me if you need more information) and advanced imaging techniques.

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