People Type: Alumni

Biography Keywords: Synaptic inhibition, retinal ganglion cells, circuit function Education BS 2017, Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Research Differential processing of sensory information by neural circuits underlies parallel processing in the nervous system. Jenna Nagy is interested in the ways that functional circuit mechanisms shape behaviorally relevant retinal circuit output to the brain. …

Biography Education BS 2009, Biomedical Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA MS 2016, Biomedical Engineering, UW–Madison, Madison, WI PhD 2016, Biomedical Engineering, UW–Madison, Madison, WI Research During Eric Nguyen’s PhD research, he contributed to the development of in-vitro screening system to detect the activity of putative vascular inhibitory compounds on model microvasculature. As a postdoctoral research …

Biography Education: BS 2014, Biochemistry, Bradley University, Peoria, IL (Current) PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Research: Niemeier is a graduate student in biomedical engineering at UW–Madison.  His interests include Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging of the eye (corneal and retinal), and characterizing the scattering of the sclera and new diagnostic metrics …

Biography Advisor: David Gamm, MD, PhD Keywords: Retinal diseases, retinal organoids, stem cells Education BA 2017, Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Research Malika’s academic and research interests are best aligned with the field of eye and vision research. As an undergraduate, she worked in clinical research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, and as a summer …

Biography Advisor: Daniel Lipinski

Biography Education BA 1998, Biology, University of Dallas, Irving, TX PhD 2001, Vision Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX Postdoctoral Fellowship 2011-2014, Ophthalmology/Pathology, UW–Madison, Madison, WI Research As a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Donna Peters laboratory, Jenny Phillips investigated the role(s) of integrins in mediating phagocytosis in human trabecular meshwork (TM) cells. TM cells modulate …

Biography Education BS 1979, Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO BA 1979, French, Washington University, St. Louis, MO MD 1984, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR Internship and Residency, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, The Oregon Health Sciences University Fellowship, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, The Oregon Health Sciences University Clinical …

Biography Education BA 1976, UC Berkeley PhD 1980, University of Wisconsin–Madison Postdoctoral Fellowship 1980-83, UC Berkeley Research Associate 1983-86, Yale School of Medicine Research Interests Dr. Polans’ research focused on uveal melanoma, the primary malignancy originating in the eye. Cancer is a multistage process impacting on a large number of genes and their related cellular …

Biography Education MD, 1992, University of Novi Sad School of Medicine, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia M.S. in Cytogenetics, 1996, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Belgrade,Yugoslavia PhD in Molecular Genetics, 2001, University of Illinois in Chicago Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Postdoctoral Training for ACMG Certification in Clinical Molecular Genetics, 2002-2004, …