Shuyi Chen et al. from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center find that Ascl1 represses Müller glial and promotes rod photoreceptor fate through repressing notch signaling in late retinal progenitor cells. doi.org/10.1167/iovs.67.10.41
Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert)
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PI for a group of scientists interested in #Retina #Photoreceptors #StemCells #GeneEditing #InheritedRetinalDystrophies #Ophthalmology at UT Southwestern Medical Center -Posts are my own
Congratulations to Aashita Doshi, for winning the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Science SPUR Award for her presentation on our PRDM13 work. She’s been an amazing Green Fellow in the lab these past 6 months and I’m so excited for her future career successes!
Excellent poster presentation yesterday by Nafisa Nuzhat at the Visual System Development GRC. We are grateful for all of the ideas and insights into our findings in retinal development!
How PRDM family proteins influence neural crest differentiation and craniofacial development. #DevBio Anushka Patil highlights recent work from Lomeli C. Shull et al. @4everbiochemist.bsky.social @artingerlab.bsky.social #preprint #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/p...
PRDM3 and PRDM16 define cranial neural crest cell states in zebrafish development - preLights
This preprint shows that PRDM3 and PRDM16 are mainly associated with nucleosome-containing chromatin in zebrafish neural crest cells.
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This or that – Wert Lab edition! 🔬 From early birds vs. night owls to making figures vs. writing papers, everyone's got their own style in the lab. Which one are you? 👀 #UTSWOphthalmology #Ophthalm...
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I’m excited to share that I’ve taken on a new appointment as Director of Basic Science Research Training for the Department of Ophthalmology. I will help guide & support basic science trainees through mentorship, professional development, & research training initiatives.
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What fuels a passion for research? 🔬💡 Members of the Wert Lab recently shared what excites them most about their work – and their answers reflect a deep commitment to discovery and impact. Their res...
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I was too busy having the best scientific chats to remember to take a photo, but I had a great time yesterday meeting everyone for the Advance Vision Research of San Antonio seminar hosted by Jason Chen. Special thanks to Daniel Mojica for organizing everything!
Unplanned, but UTSW Ophthalmology basic science female faculty are representing each of the cone photoreceptors at Resident and Alumni Day. Love it!
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Allow us to reintroduce the Wert Lab, led by Principal Investigator Katherine Wert! 👋 This incredible group studies the neuronal cells of the retina, particularly the photoreceptor cells, and how the...
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Congratulations to recently graduated PhD @emilyrnett.bsky.social on another first-author publication! She found that acute exposure to sucrose or doxycycline during development alters electroretinography in adulthood in 3 different mouse strains. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Acute developmental exposure to doxycycline and sucrose alters retinal function in three commonly used mouse strains
Doxycycline is a widely used tetracycline antibiotic, which has become critical in biomedical research for use with tetracycline-inducible transgenic …
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Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures. go.nature.com/4ucZgsk
White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know
The Trump administration’s proposal aims to improve transparency in federal funding, but critics fear the proposed rules would politicize research
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Congratulations to Ana and Nafisa for winning travel awards for their excellent poster presentations at the WISMAC Celebration of Women in Science event! 🎉🏆
Ana is giving her final Wert lab meeting on Friday. She’ll show some new data, followed by a full presentation of which Taylor Swift album matches each person in the lab. Anyone want to make guesses on which will be chosen for each member of the Wert lab?? 🎶🎵🎤
Filmed some Instagram reels for the lab, and learned how old I am. I had absolutely no idea what the “no eating in lab” meant 😂😂 excited to share some fun content soon!
Wert lab outing before Ana, Israa and Emily move on to their next career goals. Bittersweet, but so fun getting all the lab (and two support team members) out for some fun! @emilyrnett.bsky.social
Congratulations to Ashley Rowe for Best Poster Presentation at the annual Organization for the Study of Sex Differences @ossdcomm.bsky.social meeting! #OSSD2026
It’s Sally Temple giving the closing #ARVO2026 keynote about some of her work in stem cells and AMD therapeutics.
Come by the @iser.bsky.social booth at #ARVO2026 to hear about the next meeting in Valencia, Spain. Soooooo many travel awards to trainees to participate!
Thank 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.
Good morning, @arvoinfo.bsky.social! Interested in the gene regulatory networks involved in retinal development? Come hear @emilyrnett.bsky.social talk this morning! #ARVO2026
Good morning, @arvoinfo.bsky.social! Check out these presentations from UTSW today (Monday) #ARVO2026
TODAY (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
From photoreceptors to visual processing — #Webvision is your open-access deep dive into how we see. Now hosted at our Department, continuing its mission to make vision science accessible to all. Start exploring → www.webvision.pitt.edu #Ophthalmology #Neuroscience
