Elizabeth Alessio
G1 Student
Faculty Advisor
- Dan Lipinski, MSc, DPhil, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Locations
- Medical Scientist Training Program
Contact Information
Education
Research Interests
Vision science, retinal neurobiology and circuitry
Research Experience
91ɫƵ, 2024-Present
Advisor: Dan Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Project: Assessing retinal vascular function via laser speckle contrast imaging as a diagnostic biomarker of Alzheimer's disease
OU Eye Research Institute, 2017-2022
Advisor: Dao Qi Zhang, PhD
Project: Retinal dopamine and roles of retinal developmental stages on circuitry and function
Publications
Alessio EJ, Zhang DQ. Immunostaining of Whole-Mount Retinas with the CLARITY Tissue Clearing Method. J Vis Exp. 2021 Mar 6;(169). doi: 10.3791/62178. PMID: 33749674.
Liu LL, Alessio EJ, Spix NJ, Zhang DQ. Expression of GluA2-containing calcium-impermeable AMPA receptors on dopaminergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina. Mol Vis. 2019 Nov 19;25:780-790. PMID: 31819340; PMCID: PMC6882663.
Meeting Abstracts
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2020 Annual Meeting - Poster presentation (virtual)
Sigma XI 2019 Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin - Poster presentation
Michigan Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (MMMS) 2018 Annual Meeting, Central Michigan University - Oral presentation
General Interests
Playing cello, weight lifting, and reading