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The history and current status of vision research laboratory at USTC

  • School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China

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  • Corresponding author: ZHOU Yi-feng, E-mail: zhouy@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 28 June 2008
  • Rev Recd Date: 10 July 2008
  • Publish Date: 31 August 2008
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    In 1982, the Vision Research Laboratory in USTC was founded by Prof. Tiande Shou, whose research was focused on visual information processing in the central nervous system. In 1997, Dr. Yifeng Zhou was appointed Director of the Vision Research Lab after Prof. Shou left for Fudan University. The Vision Research Lab has undertaken more than 30 research projects since 1982, with the total grant support exceeding 8 million yuan. More than 60 papers were published in international journals, with more than 400 citations. A paper published in Neurobiology of Aging was selected as one of Chinas 100 Most Influential International Research Papers in 2007 by the Institute of Science and Technology Information of China. Members of the Lab have won many national awards, including Second Awards of Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Vision Research Lab has wide collaborations with other labs in the world: ① a joint research project with Professor Zhonglin Lu from University of South California on the mechanism of amblyopia resulted in a paper published in PNAS in 2008; ② collaboration with Professor Audie Leventhal from University of Utah on the mechanisms of aging in the mammalian visual system. The project was funded by a NIH subcontract and the Natural Science Foundation of China, and the result was published in Science in 2003. Furthermore, members of the Lab opened five courses; one of which won a course award from USTC. The Lab has supervised more than 50 Bachelors theses, 20 Master theses, and 21 PhD dissertations.

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    In 1982, the Vision Research Laboratory in USTC was founded by Prof. Tiande Shou, whose research was focused on visual information processing in the central nervous system. In 1997, Dr. Yifeng Zhou was appointed Director of the Vision Research Lab after Prof. Shou left for Fudan University. The Vision Research Lab has undertaken more than 30 research projects since 1982, with the total grant support exceeding 8 million yuan. More than 60 papers were published in international journals, with more than 400 citations. A paper published in Neurobiology of Aging was selected as one of Chinas 100 Most Influential International Research Papers in 2007 by the Institute of Science and Technology Information of China. Members of the Lab have won many national awards, including Second Awards of Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Vision Research Lab has wide collaborations with other labs in the world: ① a joint research project with Professor Zhonglin Lu from University of South California on the mechanism of amblyopia resulted in a paper published in PNAS in 2008; ② collaboration with Professor Audie Leventhal from University of Utah on the mechanisms of aging in the mammalian visual system. The project was funded by a NIH subcontract and the Natural Science Foundation of China, and the result was published in Science in 2003. Furthermore, members of the Lab opened five courses; one of which won a course award from USTC. The Lab has supervised more than 50 Bachelors theses, 20 Master theses, and 21 PhD dissertations.
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    [1]
    杨雄里，寿天德，李震元，等. 鲫鱼视网膜敏感度在明适应过程中的变化[J]. 生物化学与生物物理学报, 1978, 10：15-26.
    [2]
    Chen L. Topological structure in visual perception[J]. Science, 1982, 218(4 573): 699-700.
    [3]
    Shou T, Ruan D, Zhou Y. The orientation bias of LGN neurons shows topographic relation to area centralis in the cat retina[J]. Exp Brain Res. 1986, 64(1): 233-236.
    [4]
    Shou T D, Leventhal A G. Organized arrangement of orientation-sensitive relay cells in the cats dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus[J]. J Neurosci, 1989, 9(12): 4 287-4 302.
    [5]
    Thompson K G, Leventhal A G, Zhou Y, et al. Stimulus dependence of orientation and direction sensitivity of cat LGNd relay cells without cortical inputs: a comparison with area 17 cells[J]. Vis Neurosci, 1994, 11(5): 939-951.
    [6]
    Zhou Y, Leventhal A G, Thompson K G. Visual deprivation does not affect the orientation and direction sensitivity of relay cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat[J]. J Neurosci, 1995, 15(1 Pt 2): 689-698.
    [7]
    Leventhal A G, Thompson K G, Liu D, et al. Concomitant sensitivity to orientation, direction, and color of cells in layers 2, 3, and 4 of monkey striate cortex[J]. J Neurosci, 1995, 15(3 Pt 1): 1 808-1 818.
    [8]
    Shou T D, Zhou Y F. Y cells in the cat retina are more tolerant than X cells to brief elevation of IOP[J]. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1989, 30(10): 2 093-2 098.
    [9]
    Zhou Y, Wang W, Ren B, et al. Receptive field properties of cat retinal ganglion cells during short-term IOP elevation[J]. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1994, 35(6): 2 758-2 764.
    [10]
    Shou T, Liu J, Wang W, et al. Differential dendritic shrinkage of alpha and beta retinal ganglion cells in cats with chronic glaucoma[J]. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2003, 44(7): 3 005-3 010.
    [11]
    Zhou Y, Huang C, Xu P, et al. Perceptual learning improves contrast sensitivity and visual acuity in adults with anisometropic amblyopia[J]. Vision Res, 2006, 46(5): 739-750.
    [12]
    Huang C B, Zhou Y, Lu Z L. Broad bandwidth of perceptual learning in the visual system of adults with anisometropic amblyopia[J]. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2008, 105(10): 4 068-4 073.
    [13]
    Qiu Z, Xu P, Zhou Y, et al. Spatial vision deficit underlies poor sine-wave motion direction discrimination in anisometropic amblyopia[J]. J Vis, 2007, 7(11): 1-16.
    [14]
    Xu P, Lu Z L, Qiu Z, et al. Identify mechanisms of amblyopia in Gabor orientation identification with external noise[J]. Vision Res, 2006, 46(21): 3 748-3 760.
    [15]
    Huang C, Tao L, Zhou Y, et al. Treated amblyopes remain deficient in spatial vision: a contrast sensitivity and external noise study[J]. Vision Res, 2007, 47(1): 22-34.
    [16]
    Leventhal A G, Wang Y, Pu M, et al. GABA and its agonists improved visual cortical function in senescent monkeys[J]. Science, 2003, 300(5620): 812-815.
    [17]
    Wang Y, Zhou Y, Ma Y, et al. Degradation of signal timing in cortical areas V1 and V2 of senescent monkeys[J]. Cereb Cortex, 2005, 15(4): 403-408.
    [18]
    Hua T, Li X, He L, et al. Functional degradation of visual cortical cells in old cats[J]. Neurobiol Aging, 2006, 27(1): 155-162.
    [19]
    Yu S, Wang Y, Li X, et al. Functional degradation of extrastriate visual cortex in senescent rhesus monkeys[J]. Neuroscience, 2006, 140(3): 1 023-1 029.
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