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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)

@sarathomasy.bsky.social

A veterinary ophthalmologist @ucdavis, 👁 scientist, & mom looking to make the 🌎 clearer for people & animals. Co-director of CMSTP T32 for DVMs getting their PhD. Views are my own. 🐴🦜🥰 https://covsl.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/

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Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development.

(Left panels) Modeling of nuclei organization at 11 and 16 days of corneal development in an avian embryo. (Right panels) IHC for N-cadherin (yellow) and ZO-1 in 3D reconstruction of corneal cells at days 11 and 16. Nuclei are magenta.
bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Quantitative imaging of corneal endothelial development reveals dynamic but resilient monolayer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.01.722310v1

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists.

Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very cool science from folks representing @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social here! If you are at #ARVO2026 please check their posters out! 🤩

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)@sarathomasy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow #ARVO2026, come see COVSL posters from Dr. Ana Ripolles-Garcia on flavoprotein fluorescence in our 🐒 model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy and Raneesh Ramarapu on a transcriptomic atlas in 🐥 and 🐁 periocular mesenchyme (MIT poster award nominee). @arvoinfo.bsky.social

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺@seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people bsky.app/profile/seei... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #neuroscience

Graph of visual cortex (occipital lobe) activity in early blind in response to The vOICe and tongue display (left), and the same graph for late blind (right). In both graphs, The vOICe evokes stronger visual cortex activity, for visual cortex in both the left and right hemisphere. "When using either vision-to-tactile or vision-to-sound sensory substitution devices for vision restoration, we found that auditory approaches elicited stronger visual cortex activity than tactile approaches across both early and late blind individuals."
The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺@seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At #ARVO2026, May 3: Comparing tactile and auditory sensory substitution on visual cortex recruitment in the early and late blind eppro02.ativ.me/web/page.php... Visual cortex (VC) activation by a tongue display unit (TDU) and The vOICe visual-to-auditory SSD. #noninvasive #NeuroTech #BCI #blindness

Graphical abstract (top) and results (Figure 2, middle and bottom).