Marie Burns, associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and a member of the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, is the 2009 recipient of the Cogan Award. The award, bestowed by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, recognizes a researcher 40 years or younger who has made important contributions to research in ophthalmology or visual science that are directly related to disorders of the human eye or visual system, and who shows substantial promise for future research. [More...]

The first CVS Vision Research Symposium was a well-attended, informative discussion on and presentation of the scope of vision science performed by UC Davis researchers and collaborators. [More...]

In the mid 1980's UC Davis began establishing a "center" strategy for achieving excellence in select areas of science and technology. [More...]

In the September issue of PNAS, UC Davis vision researchers Dr. Leo Chalupa and colleagues report that mice lacking the beta2 subunit of the nACh receptor show robust waves of electrical activity in the developing retina. This result is surprising since cholinergic transmission in the retina has been thought to be important for eye-specific segregation in the thalamus and cortex, and these mice have been thought to lack both. This shows that there must be other factors that give rise to segregation deficits, rather than the simple lack of retinal waves. [More...]

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has announced that Marie Burns is the recipient of the 2009 Cogan Award for her studies on rod phototransduction mechanisms. [More...]