September 2024
Our Review Article on the role of molecular and cellular cues regulating circuit assembly in the mammalian retina is now out in Annual Reviews of Vision Science!
July 2024
Mrinalini is re-appointed as the Retina Research Foundation Rebecca Meyer Brown Professor! Thank you RRF and McPherson ERI!
June 2024
Thank you to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) for a Research Core revitalization grant (PI: Mrinalini Hoon) to support purchase of a new transmission electron microscope (TEM) for our School of Medicine Electron Microscopy facility.
April 2024
Congratulations to Mckenzie for receiving the 2024‐2025 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Fellowship in support of research understanding the integrity of retinal connections in the disease congenital stationary night blindness.
2024
Mrinalini is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!
December 2023
Congratulations, Jake, on receiving the Kenzi Valentyn award in support of a collaborative research project with Dr. Jeremy Rogers to study photoreceptor alterations during disease.
November 2023
Congratulations, Jake, on receiving the Best Student Vision Science Presentation Award at the 15th Annual McPherson ERI Vision Science poster session.
October 2023
Our research uncovering the role of visual cues for establishment and functioning of inner retinal circuits is now out in Current Biology! Read more about this research at:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37769662/
October 2023
Our collaborative research on the heterogeneities of connectivity at the first retinal synapse of the primate dim light pathway is now out in iScience. Read more about this fascinating research at:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37915604/
September 2023
Congratulations, Whitney, on receiving the K00 award! Whitney is the recipient of the NIH D-SPAN F99/K00 fellowship.
June 2023
Congratulations, Jake, for receiving a F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral NRSA award from the NEI!
May 2023
Thank you NIH/NEI for a R21 grant in support of our collaborative project with the Sinha Lab on postnatal retinal maturation.
April 2023
Jake is accepted into the 2023 Cold Spring Harbor course Vision: A Platform for Linking Circuits, Perception & Behavior!
April 2023
Our review on understanding retinal circuits through EM connectomics is now out! Read the article at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fopht.2023.1168548/full
March 2023
Mrinalini honored with a 2023-24 Vilas associates award! Read the announcement at: https://research.wisc.edu/featured-news/2023/03/15/2023-24-vilas-associates-announced/
January 2023
Thank you McPherson ERI for a RP research award in support of our research understanding inner retinal alterations imposed by Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP).
December 2022
Jake is awarded a second year in the T32 Vision Research Training Program.
December 2022
Thank you RPB (Research to Prevent Blindness) for granting Mrinalini a Career Advancement Award!
November 2022
Thank you McPherson ERI for a Kenzi Valentyn vision science award in support of the research being performed by graduate student Serena.
October 2022
Thank you McPherson ERI for a Walsh research travel award to support Jake’s presentation at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
April 2022
Serena receives the graduate student scholarship award!
DECEMBER 2021
Congratulations Jake on being accepted into the Vision Research Training Curriculum (VRTC) T32 program!
AUGUST 2021
Congratulations Briana on receiving 2021-2022 funding from the Neuroscience training program (NTP) T32 grant!
AUGUST 2021
Our work uncovering how early GABA receptors organize and establish presynaptic inhibitory circuits in the retina is now out in Current Biology. Read more about this exciting work at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34433078/
JUNE 2021
Is there a Müller glia coupled amacrine cell in the retina? Check out our collaborative paper in the Journal of Neuroscience to read more about this fascinating new amacrine cell: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34083252/
APRIL 2021
Congratulations to Tae Ji Lee for securing a Hilldale research fellowship to study how early visual cues can regulate organization of inner retinal circuits.
MARCH 2021
Our work uncovering a new motif of ‘mixed’ inhibition on ON alpha retinal ganglion cells is now out in Cell Reports. Check out this article at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33730586/
SEPTEMBER 2020
Thank you to the National Institutes of Health and National Eye Institute for supporting our lab research with a R01 grant.
JULY 2020
The serial block face scanning electron microscope is being installed at the SMPH EM facility.
March 18, 2020
Our research elucidating a novel role of LRRTM4 for organization and function of the dim-light retinal circuit is now out in Neuron. Check out our paper at the following link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31974009
March 18, 2020
Preview of our LRRTM4 retina research featured in the article “LRR-ning the Rules: Synapse Organization in the Primary Rod Pathway.” Check out the preview at the following link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32191854
March 2020
The serial block face scanning electron microscope is ready to be installed at the SMPH EM facility. This equipment was funded by the UW2020 WARF Discovery initiative with Mrinalini Hoon as PI. More details about this award and project can be found at the following link: https://research.wisc.edu/funding/uw2020/round-5-projects/imagining-third-dimension-nanometer-resolution/
October 2019
Hoon Lab presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience 2019 meeting in Chicago. Abhilash Sawant presented his data on inhibitory synapse organizations across dendrites of ON alpha retinal ganglion cells.
April 19, 2019
Julie Wallin awarded the 2019-2020 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship for her research project studying maturation of amacrine-bipolar circuits in the mouse retina.
April 12, 2019
Julie Wallin presents at the UW Madison Undergraduate Research Symposium.
October 16, 2018
Abhilash Sawant wins poster presentation award at the 10th annual McPherson Eye Research Institute Vision Science poster session.