Miranda Scalabrino, PhD
Assistant Professor asking how retinal disease impacts visual signaling and circuitry. #NewPI
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDGood news from NIH! Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhD10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and @gtresearch.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social for connecting us w @us.theconversation.com
- Thrilled Scalabrino Lab graduate student Taylor Rau passed her qualifying exam yesterday!
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- This paper on S-cone circuitry in the cone dominant 13-lines ground squirrel is absolutely stunning. I want to spend the rest of my day (week? month?) playing with the interactive data.
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDNew York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- At #SfN2025? Come check out the Photoreceptors & Retinal Circuits nanosymposium at 1! I’ve heard all the cool kids will be there and the chair is an absolute rockstar.
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDResearch in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDWe’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.
- As a new PI, how can anyone distinguish between no NIH funding because I suck or because the U.S. govt sucks? It’s not like I’ve had the opportunity to establish a track record. And now taking away critical feedback that would help develop future grants. Looking real bleak out there.
- On the way to #SfN25 and I love to see all the posters in the airport! The yearly neuro migration begins.
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDNEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
- So happy to have had Katherine Wert visit MCW yesterday! The work coming out of her lab is just incredible and hugely impactful.
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- Happy Halloween from MCW Eye Institute’s resident hawk. I did not leave the remains of my snacks around the building, unlike other hawks I know…
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- I’m a current mentee and this program has been phenomenal. Happy to chat with anyone interested.
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhD@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDAn astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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- Milwaukee represent.
- Apple picking with the ScaLabRats!
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- Today is my first external invited seminar where I’m not interviewing for a job! Excited to talk science and present my lab’s work at Marquette.
- So happy for Teresa and a well-deserved honor! Geniuses work on retinal circuits :)
- Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhD🚨 New preprint out from our lab! 📄 The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes to Surround Responses in OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Adventuring in Prague in between RD Meeting! @wertlaboratory.bsky.social
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDFor those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪
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- Ron Johnson came to MCW a few months ago and told lie after lie about science/medicine because he thinks he can get away with it. Proud of my community for calling him out; wish more would do the same. He’s dangerous and shameful.
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDThis from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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- It’s a vision party here in Iowa City! Looking forward to great talks and posters today. I heard they saved the best session for last with @shyamraji.bsky.social, me, @cubical.bsky.social and @clark-lab-retina.bsky.social, and keynote by @sabanlab.bsky.social.
- 1. There is a “Photoreceptors & Retina Circuitry” nano symposium at @sfn.org this year! 2. I’ll be presenting research from my lab in said nano symposium!
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDIMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
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- It was such a joy to co-organize the 2025 MCW Vision Science Retreat with @aoiplab.bsky.social @joelmiesfeld.bsky.social @minagaffney.bsky.social and Allison Hall. A true testament to the vibrant research community we have!
- My office view just got very entertaining.
- NBA direction selectivity map
- Looking for recommendations for generating transgenic (knock-in) mice!
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDTIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...
- The vision students at @medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social are killing it! Allison Hall (Collery Lab), Brea Brennan (Cooper Lab), Alex Gallo (Miesfeld Lab), Taylor Ray (Scalabrino Lab).
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDIt’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:
- Proud PI moment! Alifayaz Abdulzahir, a medical student working in my lab, gave a fantastic talk on expansion microscopy for photoreceptor synapses at the Wisconsin Ophthalmology Research Day, a joint program between MCW and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhD🖤 On #Juneteenth, we honor the fight for Black freedom — delayed, but never denied. At #BlackInNeuro, we carry that legacy forward by creating space for Black excellence in neuroscience, year-round. ✨ Freedom is a journey — and we’re not done yet. ✊🏾
- Heading back from the CSHL Vision course. I attended as a trainee in 2019, which fundamentally changed my career. I’m so honored to have been invited back as a speaker (“adult”) and am so encouraged by all the bright, curious students and postdocs!
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDIf you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2
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- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhD"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Reposted by Miranda Scalabrino, PhDWe are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer! Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers! 20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!
- My friend @christineliu.art and fellow IRACDA scholar (oof rip) designs wonderful wearable messages! The enamel pins especially make nice gifts for recent grads 👀 twophotonart.com
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