Michael C Crair, PhD

William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science; Director, Graduate Studies

Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology

Ophthalmology and Visual Science


Research Interests

Neural circuit development; synapse formation; visual system development; cortex development more...


Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1991

Selected Publications

  • Zhang J, Ackman J, Xu H P, and Crair, MC. "Visual Map Development Depends on the Temporal Pattern of Binocular Activity in Mice". Nature Neuroscience 2011 doi:10.1038/nn.3007. PMID:22179110.
  • Xu HP, Furman M, Mineur YS, Chen H, King SL, Zenisek D, Zhou ZJ, Butts DA,Tian N, Picciotto MR and Crair MC, “An Instructive Role for Patterned Spontaneous Retinal Activity in Mouse Visual Map Development”, Neuron, 2011 70:1115-27. PMID:21689598.
  • Dhande OS, Hua EW, Guh E, Yeh J, Bhatt S, Zhang Y, Ruthazer ES, Feller MB, Crair MC. "Development of Single Retinofugal Axon Arbors in Normal and Beta2 Knock-Out Mice". Journal of Neuroscience. 2011 Mar 2; 31(9):3384-3399. PMID:21368050.

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