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Email : wqy@uw.edu
Phone : (206) 616-2883

 

 

 

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ACTING INSTRUCTOR

Wong Lab (Wong Lab Website)
Research Focus : Organization and development of neural circuits in mammalian retina.

 

RESEARCH

My current research seeks to identify the synaptic motifs of mammalian retinal circuits encoding specific visual features, and uncover the developmental mechanisms that generate these synaptic connectivity patterns. I use both light and electron microscopy, in particular, correlated fluorescence imaging and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy, to reveal the circuit patterns of physiologically and anatomically identified pre- and post-synaptic cell types in the mouse retina.

I am currently investigating the synaptic arrangements associated with signal diversification from a single type of presynaptic neuron to its multiple postsynaptic partner types. I am also collaborating on an NIH SBIR project using deep learning tools to develop 3D reconstructions of neuronal connections in retinal volumes obtained from serial electron microscopy.

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sawant, A., Ebbinghaus, B.N., Bleckert, A., Gamlin, C., Yu, W.Q., Berson, D., Rudolph, U., Sinha, R. and Hoon, M. (2021). Organization and emergence of a mixed GABA-glycine retinal circuit that provides inhibition to mouse ON-sustained alpha retinal ganglion cells. Cell reports, 34(11), p.108858.

Okawa, H.*, Yu, W. Q.*, Matti, U., Schwartz, K., Odermatt, B., Zhong, H., Tsukamoto, Y., Lagnado, L., Rieke, F., Schmitz, F., & Wong, R. O. (2019). Dynamic assembly of ribbon synapses and circuit maintenance in a vertebrate sensory system. Nature Communications, 10(1), 2167   * co-first author

Zhang, C., Yu, W. Q., Hoshino, A., Huang, J., Rieke, F., Reh, T. A., & Wong, R. O. (2019). Development of ON and OFF cholinergic amacrine cells in the human fetal retina. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 527(1), 174-186.

Gamlin, C. R., Yu, W. Q., Wong, R. O., & Hoon, M. (2018). Assembly and maintenance of GABAergic and Glycinergic circuits in the mammalian nervous system. Neural development, 13(1), 12.

Yu, W. Q., El-Danaf, R. N., Okawa, H., Pacholec, J. M., Matti, U., Schwarz, K., Orderman, B., Dunn, F.A, Lagnado, L., Schmitz, F., Huberman, A. D. & Wong, R.O.L. (2018). Synaptic Convergence Patterns onto Retinal Ganglion Cells Are Preserved despite Topographic Variation in Pre-and Postsynaptic Territories. Cell reports, 25(8), 2017-2026.

Agostinone, J., Alarcon-Martinez, L., Gamlin, C., Yu, W. Q., Wong, R. O., & Di Polo, A. (2018). Insulin signaling promotes dendrite and synapse regeneration and restores circuit function after axonal injury. Brain, 141(7), 1963-1980.

 

 

 

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