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At the junction of optics, neuroscience, ophthalmology and bioengineering. aria.cvs.rochester.edu/our_work/blo…

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
not only imaging pericytes/endothelial connectome at EM level, but we have high interest in capturing and quantifying pericyte mitochondria as well. this would be super fun to do this with you and @choroidlab.bsky.social how difficult would it be to see/send a small snippet of EM volume ?
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
that is a sweet shot right there...
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
would absolutely love that! could you imagine this single fella at the scale of EM?
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#FluorescenceFriday Pericytes are tiny cells that surround microvessels. Here we show how single cells wrap their "tentacles" around retinal capillaries 👁️ Color: renders depth bit.ly/3TFifQe @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
on a delightful recent trip to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social I saw that visionaries in the department were showcased on their windows. What a cool idea... @flaumeye.bsky.social 😉
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UR Center for Visual Science @cvsuor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#cvstoday The Optica Fall Vision Meeting starts this evening at 6pm with a reception at Flaum Eye Institute. See full details: www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/home
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Optica Fall Vision Meeting
Optica Fall Vision Meeting September 24-27 2026 University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hanging on to summer @thisisroc.bsky.social Clouds rolling over Bristol Mountain Ski slopes. Looking forward to hosting an international crew @optica-fvm.bsky.social and @optica.org Frontiers in Optics in the final weeks of September @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#FluorescenceFriday 🔬 Doctors sometimes inject fluorescein to help see the vessels of the eye👁️ Here we use adaptive optics to show the the living vessel network in 3D👓 diagram credit: @webvision.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
International collaboration is important to advance our impact on the world. Despite recent headwinds... we keep these collaborations alive. @ucleye.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
thank you!
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#FluorescenceFriday 🔬 Like the vessels in your brain, the vessels of the 👁️retina need to maintain blood flow throughout life. Here we show the stability of this network over 1 year. bit.ly/4hMD3iw @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Multiple proteins mapped in sections of human & mouse retina by bleaching/removing iterative fluorescent antibody reactions Image + @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social 📷 Yuxuan Meng & Jakub Kubiak et al @colinchulab.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk in @insight.jci.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... + John Ankers
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh-ho.... but I already am.... aria.cvs.rochester.edu/team/index.h...
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aria: team
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#FluorescenceFriday @cvsuor.bsky.social we drive fluorescence in the eye by exciting fluorophores with cyan, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and infrared lasers using adaptive optics. Here we see the beam through our 🔬 camera @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@Schalleklab will be there. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Valencia
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
no question, Im the yellow microglia
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
#FluorescenceFriday Our lab studies microglia: microscopic 🔬 immune cells in the retina 👁️ We label them with Green Fluorescence and catalog of some impressive types! @flaumeye.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social bit.ly/4kMNErh
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MarcosLab UR @marcoslabur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great gathering at the @cvsuor.bsky.social Summer Picnic! 🧺🍔🏈🏸. We couldn't have asked for sunnier weather or better company. Big thanks to our admin team for the flawless logistics, and to the wonderful volunteer crew who made it all happen! @urochester.bsky.social @rittigers.bsky.social 👁️🧠
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UR Center for Visual Science @cvsuor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TODAY is the abstract submission deadline for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting, as well as the early-registration deadline. Fees increase on July 25. www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/home @optica-fvm.bsky.social
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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko set to retire  — Harvard Gazette
After decades of advancing work on vision-threatening disease, she passes the torch to scientific successors.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience
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MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Come to Rochester! a great line up for early fall!
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Jerry was great. Miss him.
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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We built a human-in-the-loop approach: the model proposes types, human experts refine and correct. As a proof of principle, we applied it to bipolar cells — and recovered all 15 known types. See those and more types in our gallery 👇 📸 eyewire.ai/gallery
15 images on a grid, each showing a single side views of different BC type examples. Cells sit between two nuclei layers (GCL and INL), and extend their axon terminals down. The differences between the types' stratification is clearly visible.Similar to the image before, but this time for 12 RGC type examples. Some types are asymmetric, others stratify broadly, others densely in the IPL.
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UR Center for Visual Science @cvsuor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Registration and abstract submission for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting are open! Sign up today: www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/home
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Optica Fall Vision Meeting
September 24-27 2026University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank you! very fun project
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you scan a point of light fast enough on the retina👁️, you can image blood cells ONE-BY-ONE as they cross the beam Our lab is developing tech called "in vivo flow cytometry" @flaumeye.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1364/BOE....
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy birthday to SchallekLab student Jin Huh! Outstanding mango cake from Kosha Dholakia @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
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Flaum Eye Institute @flaumeye.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
June is marked as Vision Research Month. At Flaum, we are so grateful to all of our researchers and their work in researching the next generations of cures, treatments, and ways to improve vision for everyone.
Flaum Eye Institute researchers posing for a group photo on stairs. 10 people, four males and six females.
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📷-New Paper-📷 What does high blood sugar do to vessels of the eye?👁️ In human diabetic retinopathy, years of high glucose yield profound vascular changes. We find that in other species, this is not always true @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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One year of hyperglycemia in the Ins2Akita mouse does not impart changes in retinal vascular patterning
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness often associated with retinal vascular pathology in humans. To aid our understanding of DR, the Ins2Akita mouse has served as a type...
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Flaum Eye Institute @flaumeye.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
ARVO Day 2! Checkout some of the awesome presenters from the University of Rochester's Flaum Eye Institute.
Chart of 2026 University of Rochester presenters at the annual ARVO conference for Tuesday May 5th.
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Carpet at the #ARVO convention center @arvoinfo.bsky.social Its a retina flat-mount right? with #AOSLO split detector cones! #ARVO2026 @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Lots to see from @flaumeye.bsky.social and @cvsuor.bsky.social today! check it out
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Good start to the meeting. Derek and Jin did a great job at their poster and talks! way to go guys! @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Good morning @arvoinfo.bsky.social friends. Look forward to seeing everyone on our first day of ARVO. If you see me, make sure to flag me down for a pair of ARIA shades... Denver 🕶️😎 @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urmed.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📷 2026 photo of the ARIA group 📷 For >14 years, this group has collectively advanced vision science and we are eager to show our work at ARVO @arvoinfo.bsky.social ! Denver, here we come! @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.socia @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urmed.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
look forward to seeing Mullins group presentations this year!
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Getting ready for ARVO @arvoinfo.bsky.social and VSS @vssmtg.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social and @cvsuor.bsky.social trainees practicing their best talks and posters at our half-day retreat. Way to go everyone! @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urmed.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ethan Rossi from @pittophthalmology.bsky.social on imaging multimodal cellular imaging. Ethan covered a lot of ground as the second of our 2026 Boynton Seminar series @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#FluorescenceFriday This microscopic🔬 object is a specialized immune cell (microglia) that resides in your retina👁️ and is responsible for damage control and refinement of neural circuits. GFP labeled @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🔬Our team @urochestersmd.bsky.social is building a 📹camera to image through layers of the living eye👁️. By changing focus, we reject out-of-focus light to image 3 layers of retinal vessels @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🌈Chronochromatogram 🌈J Schallek Art-of-Science submission #ROC starfield + Matlab code produces my: "Chronochromatogram" Chrono=Time Chromato=Color Gramma=Drawing Drawing time in color @urochester.bsky.social @thisisroc.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🌈Chronochromatogram 🌈J Schallek Art-of-Science submission #ROC starfield + Matlab code produces my: "Chronochromatogram" Chrono=Time Chromato=Color Gramma=Drawing Drawing time in color @urochester.bsky.social @thisisroc.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Alien to land; at home in the sea. This beautiful creature is a blood-belly comb jelly. Jaw dropping display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Heart❤️ connected to the Eye👁️ Our 2019 study shows single blood cells imaged in eye report out the pulsatile waveform of heart output @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Grant Writing @ 4am: current vibe
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a man in a blue shirt and tie is standing in front of a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is standing in front of a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
These lads all born on this day, Feb 12th (...One still working on his beard 🧔) @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Neutrophils are white blood cells that circulate in our blood. When they reach capillaries, they compress & fill these vessels. Derek Power et al via:👇👇 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Good news indeed. Michael's advocacy for the importance of Eye research dovetail with his diplomacy in challenging environments. Lets keep this going...
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Bathed in moonlight Snow sparkles bright No need for summer nights... #ROCTopShots ☃️ #roc #ThisisRoc @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social
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