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Susana da Silva

  • Assistant Professor
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The research in our lab is centered on a small but highly specialized area of the retina named fovea. The fovea is a high acuity area responsible for our ability to read, drive and recognize faces. We are very interested in deciphering the molecular underpinnings of fovea development and subsequently establish new experimental models of human foveal diseases. Our lab uses a multidisciplinary research program based on multiple model systems, such as chick embryos and human retinal organoids, combining classical embryological manipulations and state of the art genomic, molecular (multiomics) and human iPSCs 3D culture techniques.