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To discover mechanistic underpinnings of circuit tuning, the lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity and studied their function for vision, learning and memory."},{"lastName":"Baccus","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6027&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen A. Baccus","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephen_Baccus","researchInterest":"We study how the neural circuitry of the vertebrate retina encodes visual information and performs computations. To control and measure the retinal circuit, we present visual images while performing simultaneous two-photon imaging and multielectrode recording. We perturb the circuit as it operates using simultaneous intracellular current injection and multielectrode recording, and use the resulting large data sets to construct models of retinal computation."},{"lastName":"Kastner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17908&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Kastner","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Kastner","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17793&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jack Tzu-Chieh Wang","firstName":"Tzu-Chieh","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tzu-Chieh_Wang","researchInterest":"Neurodegeneration, axon degeneration, Wallerian degeneration, stroke, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis"},{"lastName":"Plant","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18182&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Giles W Plant","firstName":"Giles","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Giles_Plant","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on the repair of the injured spinal cord. We investigate the following areas:\r\n- Spinal cord injury (SCI): Axonal regeneration, myelination and gene therapy \r\n- Stem cell transplantation (adult, embryonic and iPS)\r\n- Endogenous stem cell activity after SCI\r\n- Immunomodulation therapies to potentiate cell transplantation after SCI\r\n- Olfactory ensheathing glia and olfactory neurogenesis\r\n- Peripheral nerve injury (gene therapy)\r\n- Visual system: axonal regeneration (gene therapy"},{"lastName":"Green","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4470&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sherril L. Green, DVM, PhD","firstName":"Sherril","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sherril_Green","researchInterest":"Research Interests: Xenopus laevis. 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Large animal models of disease."},{"lastName":"Furman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9957&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Furman","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Furman","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Swetter","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions"},{"focus":"Melanoma"},{"focus":"Skin Cancer "},{"focus":"Basal/ Squamous Cell Carcinomas - VA Dermatology"},{"focus":"Dermatology"},{"focus":"Cutaneous Oncology"},{"focus":"Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Lesion and Melanoma Program"},{"focus":"Melanoma - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Skin Cancer - Dermatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Dermatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4215&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Susan Swetter, M.D.","firstName":"Susan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Susan_Swetter","researchInterest":"1) Early detection of melanoma through enhanced screening and professional and public education to improve melanoma awareness. 2) Chemoprevention of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers in high-risk groups. 4) Epidemiologic and sociodemographic aspects of melanoma. 4) National dermatologist liaison to the ECOG Melanoma Committee and Co-founder/Co-Director of the Melanoma Prevention Working Group, an interdisciplinary Intergroup collaboration dedicated to melanoma control and prevention"},{"lastName":"Takahashi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11433&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. 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Diffusion tensor imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and computational modeling of visual perception and brain processes."},{"lastName":"Koong","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer "},{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Rectal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Liver Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Stomach Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4729&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Albert Koong","firstName":"Albert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Albert_Koong","researchInterest":"The focus of my laboratory is to understand the role of hypoxia and the tumor microenvironment on malignant progression. My clinical area of interest is in the application of chemoradiotherapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for GI malignancies."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Ophthalmology"},{"focus":"Entrepreneurship"},{"focus":"Glaucoma and cataract surgery"},{"focus":"Optical Coherence Tomography"},{"focus":"medical advising"},{"focus":"Glaucoma Drainage Implants"},{"focus":"Visual Field Tests"},{"focus":"Glaucoma, Suspect"},{"focus":"Narrow-Angle Glaucoma"},{"focus":"Myopia"},{"focus":"Vision Screening"},{"focus":"Biomedical Technology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Ophthalmology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Ophthalmology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13794&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Chang","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Chang","researchInterest":"My research interests are geared towards translational research and biomedical device development through interdisciplinary and international collaboration in the area of high myopia and glaucoma.  I also have background and expertise in OCT imaging development, e-learning for ophthalmic education, mobile cameras for tele-ophthalmology, and social networking, mobile healthcare innovations."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18699&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank Chen","firstName":"Frank","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Frank_Chen","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Dunn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Multiple Sclerosis"},{"focus":"Neuromyelitis Optica"},{"focus":"Transverse Myelitis"},{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8456&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeffrey Dunn, MD","firstName":"Jeffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jeffrey_Dunn","researchInterest":"Translational research in the human application of emerging immunotherapies for neurological disease, focusing on Multiple Sclerosis, CIS, transverse myelitis and Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO). 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