General Research Interest: Biochemistry and biophysics of nutritional factors in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal disease, especially in relation to age-related macular degenration.

Student Participation: Protein purification, spectroscopy, dissection of human donor eye tissue.

Background Needed: Basic laboratory skills. Student would work under the supervision of a post-doctoral fellow.

Outside Majors: Biochemistry, chemistry, physics.

Key Words: Protein purification, spectroscopy, carotenoids, nutrition.

Student generated projects may be considered.

General Research Interests: Vision research, retinal circuitry, retinal degeneration, metabolomics, computational analysis, data processing, anatomy, physiology, biology.

Student Participation: Previous undergraduates have learned techniques related to research in physiology, anatomy and computational processing of data. They have developed their own protocols, published and traveled to international meetings from the work accomplished in our laboratory. Students in our lab will learn techniques related to processing of tissue and the analysis of that tissue using immunohistochemistry and novel techniques on the cutting edge of bioscience and computational science developed in our laboratory to analyze that tissue.

Background Needed: Basic biology and chemistry should be pre-requisites. Familiarity with computers is necessary. Willingness to learn.

Outside Majors: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science.

Key words: Biology, Physiology, Neuroscience, Retina, Cancer, Stem Cells.

Student generated projects may be considered.