{"id":4859,"date":"2021-09-23T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:50:08","slug":"digital-tracing-neurons-in-a-mouse-model-of-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2021\/09\/23\/digital-tracing-neurons-in-a-mouse-model-of-glaucoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital tracing neurons in a mouse model of glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[Past Projects]<\/span><\/h3>\r\n<h2>Dr. Jordan Renna and Sara Chaszeyka<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"414\" class=\"wp-image-3903\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2021\/09\/Chaszeyka.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2021\/09\/Chaszeyka.png 683w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2021\/09\/Chaszeyka.png?resize=300,182 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOur\u00a0lab is studying the effects of\u00a0the debilitating\u00a0eye disease glaucoma\u00a0on\u00a0melanopsin ganglion cell\u00a0neurons\u00a0in the\u00a0mouse\u00a0retina.\u00a0Melanopsin ganglion cells\u00a0send\u00a0light-evoked signals to the brain to regulate our\u00a0circadian rhythms.\u00a0Glaucoma is a medical condition\u00a0in which eye pressure\u00a0increases to the point at which neurons connecting the eye to the brain begin to die.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We are\u00a0looking\u00a0for a brave soul\u00a0to\u00a0digitally\u00a0trace\u00a0fluorescently labeled\u00a0melanopsin ganglion cell\u00a0neurons.\u00a0 These neurons are from retinas in\u00a0various stages of glaucoma.\u00a0Our hope is to one day resolve\u00a0glaucoma and cure\u00a0the\u00a0leading\u00a0cause of\u00a0rodent\u00a0blindness.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOur lab motto:\u00a0<strong><em><u>NO\u00a0BLIND MICE<\/u><\/em><\/strong>!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rennalab.uakron.edu\/\">Click here for more information on Dr.Renna\u2019s lab<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Past Projects] Dr. Jordan Renna and Sara Chaszeyka Our\u00a0lab is studying the effects of\u00a0the debilitating\u00a0eye disease glaucoma\u00a0on\u00a0melanopsin ganglion cell\u00a0neurons\u00a0in the\u00a0mouse\u00a0retina.\u00a0Melanopsin ganglion cells\u00a0send\u00a0light-evoked signals to the brain to regulate our\u00a0circadian rhythms.\u00a0Glaucoma is a medical condition\u00a0in which eye pressure\u00a0increases to the point at which neurons connecting the eye to the brain begin to die.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We are\u00a0looking\u00a0for a brave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2021\/09\/23\/digital-tracing-neurons-in-a-mouse-model-of-glaucoma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital tracing neurons in a mouse model of glaucoma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}