Welcome to the laboratory of Dr. Samuel M. Wu, PhD at Baylor College of Medicine.
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The research interests of our laboratory concern molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic transmission and neural function in the brain. We use the vertebrate retina as a model system because of its accessibility, its known function, and its accurately controllable natural input. Our overall goal is to understand how synaptic events in the retina encode and process various attributes of visual images (such as brightness, ON/OFF signals, contrast, shape, motion and color) and to elucidate how cellular, synaptic, and genetic factors mediate retinal dysfunction in diseased states. |
Professor - Department of Ophthalmology, the Camille and Raymond Hankamer Chair in Ophthalmology
Professor - Department of Neuroscience
Professor - Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1973
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979
Cullen Eye Institute
Baylor College of Medicine, NC-205
Houston, Texas 77030
Telephone: 713-798-5966
Fax: 713-798-6457
Email: swu@bcm.edu
Recent Awards:
- Alcon Research Institute Award, 2011
- Friedenwald Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2009
- Ludwig von Sallmann Prize, International Society for Eye Research, 2008
- Boycott Prize, FASEB Summer Research Conference “Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing”, 2006
- James M. Barr Award for Outstanding Retina Research Achievement, Retina Research Foundation, 2005
- Senior Scientific Investigators Award, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., 1997
- Marjorie W. Margolin Prize, Retina Research Foundation, 1991