Current Research

SFN:2004 Poster Presentations

Sarah Lindstrom and Ajith Warrier

View the posters presented by Ajith and Sarah at the 2004 Society for Neuroscience National Convention held October 23-27 in San Diego, CA. (read more)

Centrifugal Visual System

Sarah Lindstrom

One of the most important yet least understood aspects of the visual system is the role of descending inputs (or feedback). In the primate visual system... (read more)

Visualizing Calcium Stores

Cameron Walters

Are the calcium stores in amacrine cell dendrites discrete, continuous, or dynamic? If discrete stores exists, under the control of what class of receptor?... (read more)

Observing Spontaneous Calcium Release

Dr. Salvador Borges

In many cells transient releases of local cytosolic calcium have been shown to originate from the endoplasmic reticulum via ryanodine receptors (sparks) and inositol triphosphate receptors (puffs)... (read more)

Previous Research and Projects

Cultured Amacrine Cell Receptor Spacing

Cameron Walters

Are two functionally related ER membrane spanning calcium channel receptors also related in space? (read more)

Bipolar Cell Receptive Field

Dr. Salvador Borges

Study of the receptive field of a retinal bipolar cell... (read more)