
Welcome to Clark Lab!
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Research
The Clark Lab conducts research investigating how the vertebrate retina develops from a pool of multi-potent retinal progenitor cells (RPCs). We use a combination of molecular biology and genetic techniques to understand how gene regulatory networks regulate RPC proliferation, cell-cycle exit, and cell differentiation, with the long-term goal of understanding how genetic aberrations contribute to retinal disorders. Areas of research within the lab include:
- Understanding the mechanisms regulating retinal neurogenesis and cell fate specification
- Characterization of long non-coding RNA expression and function
- Development of novel tools for use in single-cell sequencing technologies
- Assessment of changes in cis-regulatory sequence activities
