Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert)

Dallas skyline views while out with UTSW faculty, love the collegiality and community at UTSW!

A nice blog post from Vinu Mahajan about our time at the #RD2025 meeting. It was fun catching up with him during the conference! mahajanlab.stanford.edu/news/scienti...

Love exploring Prague, but I can’t stop planning work, checking emails, and feeling stressed and overwhelmed about what I’m falling behind on. I fail at vacations, but I’m definitely meant to be a PI 😂

A colorful mosaic of abstract spots arranged in squares that are derived from retinal research data.

Webvision Has A New Home!

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So many architectural designs here in Prague

It looks like you found the best way to experience Dublin

And we took in a bit of Czech history with the bohemian crown jewel exhibit…also I now want a scepter to use as a pointer for lab talks

Fun day of running around Praha 1 with @alecia144g.bsky.social!

Good morning, Praha

UTSW at #RD2025. Yes, we are the coolest 😂🤓

It’s National Postdoc Appreciation Week #NPAW2025 and I’m excited to say we have a new postdoc in the Wert lab, Dr. Nafisa Nuzhat! Not on BlueSky yet, but maybe soon

Already have an idea for a full grant after all the conversations at #RD2025

Vision scientist Alecia Gross at the lectern talking about retinal degeneration

It’s @alecia144g.bsky.social talking about her work in retinal degeneration at #RD2025

Beautiful Prague views during #RD2025

Fun Prague adventure day!

Kicking off the #RD2025 day with a great keynote lecture by Vinit Mahajan, even including a mention of Bill Harbour’s work on uveal melanoma!

It was an excellent workshop!

Comparative single-cell multiomic analysis reveals evolutionarily conserved and species-specific cellular mechanisms mediating natural retinal aging. Biological age is a major risk factor in the development of common degenerative retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma. To systematically characterize molecular mechani...

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ready for an excellent day about AMD from the @brightfocus.bsky.social

Made it to Madrid! Almost to Prague for #RD2025

Yes! At DFW awaiting the first leg of my flights out there. Excited to see you and everyone there!

Heading to RD?

Non-science post. But I adopted this sweet guy 5 years ago on this day ❤️

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Check out Ashley and I discussing our recent research findings for the Eye on Vision WYPL Memphis radio show! It airs TODAY (Sept. 7th) at 11:17 AM CST and 10:47 AM Sept. 10, on FM 89.3 WYPL in Memphis. WYPL streams at memphislibrary.org/wypl The program's website is eyeonvision.blogspot.com

Incredible vision in these creatures.

And they see color differently than you or I. They see in UV and in green. And some also see in red by shifting the focal point of the wavelength.

They also see motion with different eyes.

Cool stuff.

We have a press release at UT Southwestern on this work as well: www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/art...

UTSW researchers find link between sex hormones and rare eye disease Men and women may be affected differently by retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that causes blindness over time. That's according to a new study out of UT...

Thanks for highlighting our recent research findings, @dallasnews.com! www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/08...

Katherine Wert et al. find that Elevated PRDM13 Disrupts Photoreceptor Function and Survival in the Mammalian Retina, iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx....