Research pioneered by
Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: burkhala@nospam.wustl.edu
Anatomical, physiological and optogenetic study of the visual cortex
Burkhalter Lab
Tom Franken, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: ftom@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding how the primate brain processes sensory information to perceive the world as an organized collection of objects
Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: g.goodhill@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding the computational principles that underlie brain development, using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches
Helen McNeill, PhD
Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor of Developmental Biology
- Email: mcneillh@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding how tissue growth and tissue organization are coordinately regulated during normal development, and how loss of this control leads to human disease
Josh Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: jlmorgan@nospam.wustl.edu
Using advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits
Keith Hengen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email: khengen@nospam.wustl.edu
We take a “big data” approach to understanding the self-organization of neurons and networks in behaving animals
Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
Janet & Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Visual system neuroscience and vision restoration
Kerschensteiner Lab
Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Information processing in the cerebral cortex
Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: takeshi@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding the molecular and cellular basis of the functional development and regeneration of the vertebrate visual system and elucidating how disruption of these mechanisms leads to visual dysfunction