This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Cheng, Caroline ST
- 1Erickson, Timothy
- 1French, Curtis Robert
- 1Holly, Vanessa L
- 1March, Lindsey D
- 1Noel, Nicole C L
-
Spring 2016
Normal eye development requires a complex series of morphological movements and ocular patterning with aberrant eye development resulting in birth defects and retinal dystrophies. Eleven percent of paediatric blindness is caused by microphthalmia (small eyes), anophthalmia (no eyes) and coloboma...
-
Fall 2014
The growth and development of an organ is a multi-step process. It involves initial specification of the progenitor cells to become a particular cell type, proliferation of those cells for organ growth, and organization of the cells into a final functional tissue. The growth and development of...
-
Fall 2012
Sensory systems are complex structures that receive stimuli from the surrounding environment and convert them into interpretable information. In the visual system, light hitting the eye is transmitted to the brain in a way that preserves the spatial conformation of the pictures we see. Retinal...
-
Patterning the zebrafish visual system requires the actions of Pbx transcription factors, and a downstream growth factor, Gdf6a
DownloadFall 2010
The zebrafish visual system relies on positional information in the retina and optic tectum, so that the spatial fidelity of light signals that enter the eye are preserved for visual processing. This positional information is essential for ordered topographic mapping of retinal ganglion cell...
-
Fall 2017
Photoreceptors (the light-sensitive cellular mediators of vision in the eye) are divided into two classes: rods, which are sensitive to dim light and responsible for vision in low-light conditions, and cones, which are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light, and are responsible for daytime...
-
The roles of Pbx and Meis TALE-class homeodomain transcription factors in vertebrate neural patterning
DownloadFall 2010
One of the major goals of developmental biology is to understand how specialized groups of cells arise from an initially unspecified cell population. The vertebrate hindbrain is transiently segmented along its anterior-posterior axis into lineage-restricted compartments called rhombomeres, making...