The Retina and its Disorders

Dr. Besharse is currently The Marvin Wagner Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received his BA degree from Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) and MA and PhD degrees from Southern Illinois University. After a brief period on the faculty at Old Dominion University in Virginia, he moved to Columbia University as a post-doctoral fellow in retinal research. He was appointed to the faculty of Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Emory University School of Medicine in 1977, becoming full professor in 1984. He assumed the position of Professor and Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas City) in 1989 and moved on to his present position at Medical College of Wisconsin in 1997. Dr. Besharse’s research has focused on membrane turnover, circadian clocks, and microtubule-based transport in photoreceptors with special attention to fundamental pathways that are disrupted in photoreceptor degenerative diseases. His research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1978. In addition to his roles as Department Chair and a principal investigator, he directs an NIH funded training program in Vision Science. Dr. Besharse is a past member of the editorial boards of Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science and Vision Neuroscience and served as the Retina Section Editor of Experimental Eye Research. He has served as a Trustee of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and has served two full terms as a member of two different NIH study sections. Among his awards are the Alcon Research Award for outstanding research in Vision Science (1993), the Alumni Achievement Award from Southern Illinois University (1998) and the Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (2005). He is a Gold Fellow of ARVO.

• Animal Models of Glaucoma      S I Tomarev           Chick Metabolism in the Chick Retina     P M Iuvone     Central Retinal Vein Occlusion      S S Hayreh      Choroidal Neovascularization      M R Kesen and S W Cousins     Chromatic Function of the Cones     D H Foster             Color Blindness: Inherited      J Carroll and D M Tait         Cone Photoreceptor Cells: Soma and Synapse    R G Smith      Contrast Sensitivity       P Bex         Development of the Retinal Vasculature     T Chan-Ling      Embryology and Early Patterning     P Bovolenta, R Marco-Ferreres, and I Conte     Fish Retinomotor Movements      B Burnside and C King-Smith       Hereditary Vitreoretinopathies      S Meredith and M Snead     Histogenesis, Cell Fate, and Signaling Factors    M Cwinn, B McNeill, A Ha, and V A Wallace   Immunobiology of Age-Related Macular Degeneration   R L Ufret-Vincenty     Information Processing in the Retina     F S Werblin          Inherited Optic Neuropathies      A A Sadun and C F Chicani       Injury and Repair: Stem Cells and Transplantation   B A Tucker, M J Young, and H J Klassen     Innate Immune System and the Eye     M S Gregory             Neuropeptides: Localization      N C Brecha, A A Hirano, and I D Raymond   The Photoreceptor Outer Segment as a Sensory Cilium   J C Besharse and C Insinna     Photoresponse in Squid       J Mitchell and W Swardfager        Retinal Histogenesis       J A Brzezinski, IV and T A Reh   Retinal Pigment Epithelial–Choroid Interactions   K Ford and P A D’Amore      Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment     S C Wong, Y D Ramkissoon, and D G Charteris     And many more!