A starburst amacrine cell filled with dye through a patch pipette and visualized under a two photon microscope
1,729 retinal cells in the ganglion cell layer filled with Oregon Green calcium dye
A whole-retina antibody stain reveals the dorsal-ventral gradients of the two visual opsins in mice (S-opsin: magenta, M-opsin: green)
Immature retina cross-section - glial cells in green, glutamatergic synapses in pink - see Rosa, Bos et al, Elife, 2015
Adult retina cross-section - glial cells in green, glutamatergic synapses in pink -- see Rosa, Bos et al, Elife, 2015
Schematic of retinal projections influenced by retinal waves - see review by Kirkby et al, Neuron, 2013
Determining role of AII amacrine cells in retinal waves -- see Firl et al, J. Neurosci, 2014
Paired whole cell voltage clamp recordings from a starburst amacrine cell and direction selective ganglion cell. See Morrie and Feller, J. Neurosci, 2015
Reconstructions of starburst-direction selective ganglion cell pair
Imaging spillover of acetylcholine during retinal waves using CNiFERs -- see Ford et al, J. Neurosci, 2012
Synaptic currents evoked by light in Off-SAC -- see Vlasits et al, Neuron, 2014
Neurobiotin-filled ipRGC with gap junction coupled cells (magenta), and dopaminergic amacrine cells (green) in a P6 retina
Starburst cells have variable calcium increases during waves -- see Ford et al, 2012
We are part of the
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
Biophysics Graduate Program
Vision Science Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
