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Vivian Choh - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Wildsoet Lab
I am investigating the role of the brain during emmetropisation,
the process in young animals that regulates growth of their eyes
to avoid refractive errors such as myopia (short-sightedness).
Education
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Canada: Vision Science & Biology
- M.Sc., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada:
Physiology & Program in Neuroscience
- B.Sc., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada:
Physiology (Minor: Physics)
Scott Geller - Post Doctoral Fellow (2002 - current)
Flannery Lab
In graduate school in Santa Barbara, I focused most of my research
activities on understanding the immediate and early effects of
experimental retinal detachment on the neural retina and retinal
pigmented epithelium.
During my first post doc, I studied the photoreceptor specific
expression of the RP1 gene; a gene that is known to be causative
for some forms of retinitis pigmentosa (which is a form of blindness).
Specifically, I examined how an altered oxygen environment modulates
photorecptor gene expression.
More recently at UC Berkeley, I have turned my attention to understanding
the function of another gene expressed in the eye (and elsewhere),
Usher 3. When mutated, the product of the USH3 gene, Clarin-1,
is responsible for progressive post-lingual hearing and vision
loss in humans, two deficits that characterize each of the 3 phenotypic
forms of Usher's Syndrome.
Education and Training
- Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy
and Histology, University of Sydney (Australia), 1999-2002.
- Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC
Santa Barbara
- B.Sc., Behavioral and Developmental Neurobiology,
UC Santa Barbara
Priya Mathur - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Wildsoet Lab
I am interested in the mechanism underlying the modulation of
choroidal thickness in response to positive or negative defocus
in chicks. I use pharmacological tools to manipulate accumulation
of osmotically active molecules in the extracellular choroidal
matrix, and also manipulate the resistance of outflow pathways
from the anterior chamber to further unravel this mechanism.
I also plan to study choroidal factors released by organ cultured
choroids obtained from control vs myopic and hyperopic eyes.
Education and Training
- Post-Doctoral research, Kresge Eye Institute,
Detroit, USA
- PhD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India
PhD thesis topic: Role of Calpain in Cataractogenesis
- MSc (Pharmacology), All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, New Delhi,
India
- BSc (Human Biology and Physiology), All India
Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi, India
Jodi Rymer - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Wildsoet Lab
I
am studying the vision differences, particularly changes related
to myopia between normal and albino chicks.
Education
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Ph.D, UC Berkeley 2003
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B.A., Reed College 1996
Meng Wang - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Gong Lab
Education and Training
- Post-Doctoral Research, University of California
at Berkeley, School of Optometry
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University
of California at Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell
Biology, Berkeley, CA, Burnside Lab
- Ph.D, University of Houston, Houston, TX;College
of Optometry, 2002
- Area of study: Retinal development
- B.S., Peking University
Beijing, P.R. China, 1998
- Area of study: Cell Biology and Genetic
Chun-Hong Xia - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Gong Lab
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