Dr. Jonathan Demb

Biography

Jonathan Demb is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale School of Medicine. He obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1997 and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Before joining Yale in 2011, Demb was a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that enable visual processing in the mammalian retina. Notable achievements in his career include the identification of critical nonlinearities in retinal synapses that mediate specialized spatial processing, elucidating the role of disinhibition in visual contrast processing, and characterizing the asymmetric pathways in the retina. He has worked extensively using optogenetic techniques and glutamate sensors to study retinal circuitry, and his work has implications for understanding and treating retinal diseases. Demb serves as a Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience and is on the Editorial Board of PLoS Biology. He received the Cogan Award in 2013 from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, recognizing his significant contributions to the field of retinal neuroscience.

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