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Robert
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Centre for Biological Timing and School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
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Photoreception is one of our key sensory capacities. It forms the basis of vision and of numerous sub-conscious reflex responses to light. My laboratory studies how mammals use their three types of photoreceptor (rods, cones and melanopsin) to tell time of day and to see. We also study the light sensitive proteins that support photoreception in animals (opsins), with the aim of understanding how they work and exploiting them for optogenetic purposes.
Humans; Mice or other rodents; Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
Neuroscience; Biology; Physiology (cellular and organismal, including electrophysiology); Basic/fundamental/discovery research; Laboratory research; Non-clinical human studies; In vivo studies or preclinical work with non-human animals
GSK Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Biological Timing
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