
Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cell Daniel O&rsquo;Shea &lsquo;09 (undergraduate)Department of Electrical EngineeringThis is a GFP-tagged mouse retinal ganglion cell (in green), overlaid on a layer of cells with DAPI-stained nuclei (in blue) and ChAT-stained starburst amacrine cells (in red), taken with a tri-channel confocal fluorescence microscope.
I captured this image during a research project supervised by Sebastian Seung at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Richard Masland at Harvard. The goal of the collaboration was to develop an improved classification system for ganglion cells based upon their position in the retina and upon the morphology, or architecture, of their dendritic arbors (which behave like antennae).

