Lab

Allison Lab

Lab ID
ZDB-LAB-080130-1
PI / Directory
Allison, Ted
Contact Person
Allison, Ted
Email
ted.allison@ualberta.ca
URL
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/allison_lab/
Address
Department of Biological Sciences & Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases G-315, Biological Sciences Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E9
Country
Canada
Phone
(780) 492-4430
Fax
(780) 492-9234
Line Designation
ua
Genomic Features
Statement of Research Interest
Research in Ted Allison's laboratory focuses on neurodegeneration and neural regeneration, especially within the retina. We use an integrative approach spanning molecular biology, electrophysiology & behaviour to study the development of retinas in fishes and how they are tuned to get the most information available from the environment. Our research has three major streams: i) using zebrafish to investigate questions of photoreceptor development, patterning & regeneration as they pertain to human retinal degenerative disease; ii) The development of zebrafish as an effective model organism for the study of protein folding diseases such as Alzheimer and Prion-related Diseases; iii) Investigating the visual ecology of fishes - how and why do visual systems change over evolutionary time and during the life history of animals.
Lab Members
Fleisch, Valerie Post-Doc Acharya, Moulinath Bujold, Adina
Duval, Michèle Fraser, Brittany Kaiser, Darcy
Koduri, Harsha Leighton, Patricia Lund, Johanna
McCorry, Aleah Oel, Phil Wang, Hao
Zebrafish Publications of lab members