Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Super proud of Dr. Dr. Uchenna Nlebedum for completing his exit seminar and PhD. He has accepted an anatomy faculty position at University of Pennsylvania College of Veterinary Medicine. 020
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812recruit.ucdavis.eduAssistant Professor of Psychology - Biological Bases of BehaviorUniversity of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now! 05642
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I had the best time at #ISER2026! I am inspired by the new advances in the corneal endothelium field. Thank you to the speakers, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social, for sharing their insights. Kudos to the organizers, @palomaliton.bsky.social, for putting together a great meeting! 061
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sitting in a talk by Lois Smith who developed treatments for retinopathy of prematurity, and I’m wondering how many kids and now adults are running around with normal vision who would have been blind, and don’t know about the science and people who made it possible for them to see normally. 0328
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So ready for #ISER2026! 0164
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)ISER @iser.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The #ISER2026 peeps who are birders are out en force around the lake in Parque Natural de l’Albufera. We’ve seen @sarathomasy.bsky.social @tmr65.bsky.social Bela Anand-Apte, @bwjones.bsky.social and others. 074
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Please stop by the corneal endothelium session on August 27th at 1 pm @iser.bsky.social Featuring talks by many greats, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with all my favorite eye people! 084
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Amazing backpack to Thousand Island, Ediza and Iceberg lakes out of Rush Creek trailhead. #worklifebalance 030
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026COVSL summer outing yesterday to the Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye - it was amazing! #visionscience 010
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026In a 🐑 model of Tay-Sachs disease, we demonstrate that CSF delivery of a bidirectional AAV9 vector improves retinal and optic nerve pathology! A great collab with Heather Gray-Edwards and Nick Marsh-Armstrong. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... 050
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)AcademicTransfer @academictransfer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Postdoctoral scientist Translational vision science and ophthalmology www.academictransfer.com/361291 @UMCG 021
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Immensely proud of NSF CAMP scholar & @primateresearch.bsky.social Biomedicine for the Future alumna J’adore Bailey who was critical to our ongoing studies of autosomal dominant optic atrophy in a 🐒 model. She graduates in June - if you are a Bay Area scientist and need a junior specialist, DM me! 020
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Corneal Endothelial Morphogenesis E6-E16🐣 #SciArt "Persistent dominance of hexagonal topology" Beautiful 2D nuclei Voronoi tessellation!🤩 +Molecular dynamics of N-cadherin F-actin Microtubule @rogerslabucd.bsky.social @sarathomasy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 0112
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026🐷 racing at the Dixon May Fair was epic - highly recommend. 010
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I missed the beginning, but only an absolute pro can start their karaoke set recruiting IOVS editors and then crush I’ve Got Friends In Low Places. @aoiplab.bsky.social #arvo2026 163
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Incredibly proud of DVM-PhD student Raneesh Ramarapu, a #ARVO2026 MIT poster finalist, and his incredible work on corneal development from a transcrptomic perspective in collaboration with @rogerslabucd.bsky.social. @arvoinfo.bsky.social 081
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A successful #ARVO2026 meeting for COVSL! Super proud of all the incredible work done by our trainees @arvoinfo.bsky.social! 061
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It’s @michaelfchiang.bsky.social talking at the end of the #ARVO2026 closing keynote about the NIH / NEI mission and regenerative medicine. 0144
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A little jaunt to Red Rock yesterday with @sangitapatel.bsky.social! #ARVO2026 #worklifebalance 031
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Come see Jaegook Lim’s great work on gene therapy for oculocutaneous albinism in a 🐒 model on the final day of @arvoinfo.bsky.social! #ARVO2026 031
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development. 55917
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Thank you @michaelfchiang.bsky.social for coming to José-Alain Sahael’s award talk today at #ARVO2026. I am grateful for your calm hand at the head of the NIH/NEI, and your hard work to help vision science move forward. 0363
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/05/2026It’s @drdorotask.bsky.social presenting her work to a standing room only audience at #ARVO2026 1203
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Super proud of Hiroko Iwashita and Sabina Khan for their excellent poster presentations yesterday on their corneal endothelial work @arvoinfo.bsky.social. #ARVO2026 082
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 513581
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists. 28136
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)The American Macular Degeneration Foundation @theamdf.bsky.social · 03/05/2026#ARVO2026 is underway! Thanks to Robert Luca, AMDF Travel Grantee, for taking the AMD Patient-in-Sight Pledge. Robert is a medical student at the U of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, currently investigating the microbiome’s role in the gut-retina axis. Stop by booth #11034 to learn more! 132
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Take advantage of daily drop-in mentoring at #ARVO2026 (Mon.-Wed.). Get professional guidance from Women in Eye And #VisionResearch (WEAVR) or chat about careers in industry with @arvoinfo.bsky.social's Industry Members Committee. Meet by ARVO Central (see website for hours) bit.ly/3PTsBJW 011
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Very cool science from folks representing @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social here! If you are at #ARVO2026 please check their posters out! 🤩media.tenor.coma man with a mustache is holding a piece of paper with the word science written on it .Alt: a man with a mustache is throwing glitter with the word science 063
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 03/05/2026AGING EYE session is TODAY! #ARVO2026 #agingeye 3:15PM in Mile High 1A. See you there!! #aging #vision 062
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Don't miss the @arvoinfo.bsky.social+Genentech Opening Keynote with Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (@colorado.edu; @hhmi-science.bsky.social) at 10:15am! Discover how #NucleicAcidTherapeutics could transform hereditary #GeneticEyeDisease treatment bit.ly/4s9b3b2 #VisionResearch #VisionScience 011
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026A 10 mile 🏃♀️ on the river before a day of vision science @arvoinfo.bsky.social! #ARVO2026 0101
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 03/05/2026TODAY (Sunday) come see Tiffany Yee and Ashley Rowe present their research in poster sessions this afternoon! Amazing work with retinal organoids and looking into steroidal sex hormones #ARVO2026 @arvoinfo.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 02/05/2026At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people bsky.app/profile/seei... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #neuroscience 165
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people […] [Original post on mas.to] 125
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I have so many fond memories of trips we took around @arvoinfo.bsky.social with my young kids! 030
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Yuhui LI @yuhuili.bsky.social · 09/04/2026🔬 First live-cell imaging experiments done in my lab at HKU! Human RPE1 cells expressing Lifeact-GFP (actin) and EB3-GFP (MT plus-ends), imaged in Fast Airyscan mode on a Zeiss LSM 900👇. Thanks to Denise Kuok Iok Teng for imaging setup, and to Manuel Théry & Louise Bonnemay for the cells 🙏🫶😆 0226
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Bringing the family along for #ARVO2026 (May 3 - 7)? Denver is an absolute playground for families! Local @arvoinfo.bsky.social member Brittany Wright OD, MS, FAAO, shares her top picks of places to have a fun time without spending a fortune. Details in #ARVOBlog: bit.ly/4tyVSc3 072
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Tomorrow #ARVO2026, come see COVSL posters from Dr. Ana Ripolles-Garcia on flavoprotein fluorescence in our 🐒 model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy and Raneesh Ramarapu on a transcriptomic atlas in 🐥 and 🐁 periocular mesenchyme (MIT poster award nominee). @arvoinfo.bsky.social 081
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Of our many amazing graduate student mentors and undergrad mentees, I’m excited that 5 grad students and 2 of our graduating undergrads will be attending the #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting in Las Vegas this summer! We look forward to sharing our exciting work with the community! 💫 0162
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Exciting new work characterizing a 🐒 model of ADOA vision loss by @sarathomasy.bsky.social's group. We looked at old behavioral data for 2 🐒 from my lab w the heterozygote ADOA genotype to show had behavioral signs of vision loss, long before we knew to look at their eyes. 031
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.jobbnorge.noTre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274) | Universitetet i BergenStillingstittel: Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. august 2026 0918
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Mark your calendar for the @arvoinfo.bsky.social+Genentech Opening Keynote with Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (@colorado.edu; @hhmi-science.bsky.social) on May 3! Explore how #NucleicAcidTherapeutics could transform hereditary #GeneticEyeDisease treatment bit.ly/4s9b3b2 #VisionResearch 011
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) @imbmainz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Congratulations @lorenzoorts.bsky.social for receiving the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Research Award! The award recognises early-career researchers with the potential to achieve world-leading status for their high-impact work in the molecular biosciences. More: www.imb.de/about-imb/ne... 1196
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026One of the joys of being a professor is watching students gain expertise, confidence, and the ability to communicate about their science while they hone their technical skills in lab. One of the hard parts is watching them move on to continue their journeys. I’m so grateful for it all! 3/media.tenor.coma man wearing a brown coat and a blue hat is standing in front of a blurry background .Alt: a man wearing a brown coat and a blue hat is standing in front of a blurry background being proud 1162
Reposted by Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Our students have spent anywhere from 6 months to multiple years working with their graduate mentors in the lab and two are joint students with @sarathomasy.bsky.social. Six of the nine are graduating seniors, some will stay over summer or continue next year and others are leaving this year! 🥹 2/media.tenor.coma congratulations card with graduates throwing their graduation caps in the airAlt: a congratulations card with graduates throwing their graduation caps in the air 181
Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A great summary of our recent publication. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgRhesus macaques with an OPA1 mutation demonstrate features of autosomal dominant optic atrophy | PNASAutosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) is an inherited optic neuropathy primarily caused by mutations in OPA1. We identified and defined a spontan... 031