Spotlight

Rachel with a friendly Australian brushed tailed possum. Circa early 1990s, Vision, Touch and Hearing Institute, Brisbane, Australia.

Rachel with David Vaney a pioneer of retinal circuitry studies and direction selectivity, again circa early 1990s.

Making new waves. At the upper left is an image of the developing retina laying on an array of electrodes (dark dots) and lower right the simultaneous ganglion cell spike recordings from each electrode. Markus Meister, Denis Baylor and Carla Shatz coauthored this pioneering study.

A fertile time in the Neuroscience department with colleagues, Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes, Ann Marie Craig and Peter Lukasiewicz. The beauty and utility of the DioListic method shown in the background and the inset is the now famous confocal image of retinal organization taken by Josh Morgan while a graduate student in Rachel's lab.