My first Bluesky post is to announce a Tenure-Track Faculty Search at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of UCLA. We are considering applications at the Assistant and Associate professor levels. Apply here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10092.
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Beautiful work. Congrats @michelcayouette.bsky.social and team!
As my first post here, I am really excited to share a new manuscript with @ralitsamadsen.bsky.social on this platform. We looked how non-equilibrium thermodynamics helps ligand discrimination in signaling networks: t.co/ZA6NteUmaS
New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A new study, led by Kushal (Berkeley), Nicole&Victoria (UCSF) in full collaboration with @karthikshekhar.bsky.social, "Molecular and spatial analysis of ganglion cells on retinal flatmounts identifies perivascular neurons resilient to glaucoma" sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #retina #MERFISH
Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...
New preprint from the group on the evolution of retinal cell types. Check the summary by Dario @dariotommasini.bsky.social !
Karthik Shekhar
This was a fun project led by the hugely talented postdoc Rachana Somaiya and graduate student Matthew Po together in collaboration with @mfeller.bsky.social !
Honored to receive the Faculty Award for excellence in Postdoctoral mentoring from UC Berkeley, and share it with my friend and colleague Kranthi Mandadapu
In the early stages of retinal development, a form of correlated activity known as retinal waves causes periodic depolarizations of immature retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinal waves are crucial fo...
Our latest work is out!! Short thread below.
www.cell.com/developmenta...
New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In the early stages of retinal development, a form of correlated activity known as retinal waves causes periodic depolarizations of immature retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Retinal waves are crucial fo...
Inhibitory neurons are among the most transcriptomically diverse class of neurons in the CNS, with some brain regions having 60+ distinct cell types. Do humans share the same repertoire as rodents? Birds? Fish? 1/13
Dario Tommasini
Housset et al. show that basal bodies of cone photoreceptors in the mouse retina are
planar polarized in a light-dependent manner by the action of transducin and G-protein-signaling
modulator protein ...
