Journal Club

November 3, 2025

3:00 pm, Large CVS conference room

Hector will present the most recent study from Daniel Palanker's Lab (In the NYT 2 weeks ago!): "Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD", followed by discussion.

  • Holz FG, Le Mer Y, Muqit MMK, Hattenbach LO, Cusumano A, Grisanti S, Kodjikian L, Pileri MA, Matonti F, Souied E, Stanzel BV, Szurman P, Weber M, Bartz-Schmidt KU, Eter N, Delyfer MN, Girmens JF, van Overdam KA, Wolf A, Hornig R, Corazzol M, Brodie F, Olmos de Koo L, Palanker D, Sahel JA. Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD. N Engl J Med. 2025 Oct 20:10.1056/NEJMoa2501396. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2501396. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41124203; PMCID: PMC7618305.
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October 6, 2025

1:00 pm, Large CVS conference room

Amy will present a study by Hendrickson et al (attached): "Retrograde transneuronal degeneration in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus of the V1-lesioned marmoset monkey", followed by discussion.

  • Hendrickson A, Warner CE, Possin D, Huang J, Kwan WC, Bourne JA. Retrograde transneuronal degeneration in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus of the V1-lesioned marmoset monkey. Brain Struct Funct. 2015 Jan;220(1):351-60. doi: 10.1007/s00429-013-0659-7. Epub 2013 Oct 31. PMID: 24173617.
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August 4, 2025

1:00 pm, Large CVS conference room

The theme for the August journal club is "lightning talks." Each presenter will do a 15 minute talk about their paper and then the group will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Presented by Sabina Poudel

  • Anna Nikolaidou, Daniel Rentz, Torsten Strasser; Pattern ERG Responses to Simulated and Natural Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration in Emmetropes and Myopes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2025;66(8):2124.
    Full text is at IOVS

Presented by Sabya Goswami

  • Wiatczak B, Schaeffel F. Myopia: why the retina stops inhibiting eye growth. Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 15;12(1):21704. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26323-7
    Full text is at Scientific Reports

Presented by Tianlun Zou

  • Maydel Fernandez-Alonso, Abigail P. Finch, Gordon D. Love, Jenny C. A. Read; Ocular accommodation and wavelength: The effect of longitudinal chromatic aberration on the stimulus–response curve. Journal of Vision 2024;24(2):11.
    Full text is at Journal of Vision