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SUMMARY:Genetic approaches to understand and manipulate retinal circuit fu
 nction - Botond Roska\, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Resear
 ch
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CONTACT:Scientific Meetings Co-ordinator
DESCRIPTION:The first steps of vision occur in the retina where dozens of 
 different neural circuits extract different features from the visual scene
 . In my talk\, first\, I will discuss how the neural circuit asymmetry req
 uired for detecting directional motion is set up during development. Secon
 d\, I show how basic understanding of the structure and function of retina
 l circuits in combination with viral and molecular tools can be used to de
 sign rational optogenetic therapies for the blinding disease retinitis pig
 mentosa.\n\n
LOCATION:Max Perutz Lecture Theatre\, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC 
 Laboratory of Molecular Biol
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