Felice Dunn, PhD
Associate Professor
Ophthalmology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018

Grants and Projects

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• Thresholds, sites, and contributions of circuit compensation following rod photoreceptorloss in mature retina, NIH, 2019-2024
• Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of compensation following loss of cone inputs in themature mouse retina, NIH, 2019-2024
• Structure, function, and adaptability of parallel pathways in mammalian retina, NIH, 2014-2017
• Structure, function, and adaptability of parallel pathways in mammalian retina, NIH, 2013-2014

Publications (22)

Top publication keywords:
Nystagmus, OptokineticRetinal Bipolar CellsRetinal Cone Photoreceptor CellsRetinal Rod Photoreceptor CellsAdaptation, OcularDendritesPhotoreceptor CellsSynapsesVisual PathwaysVision, OcularReceptors, Metabotropic GlutamateRetinal NeuronsRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsSensory Deprivation

• A semi-automated method for quantifying optokinetic reflex tracking acuity.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Kiraly JK, Harris SC, Al-Khindi T, Dunn FA, Kolodkin A
• Asymmetric retinal direction tuning predicts optokinetic eye movements across stimulus conditions.
  eLife 2023 Harris SC, Dunn FA
• Inhibition, but not excitation, recovers from partial cone loss with greater spatiotemporal integration, synapse density, and frequency.
  Cell reports 2022 Lee JY, Care RA, Kastner DB, Della Santina L, Dunn FA
• Impact of Photoreceptor Loss on Retinal Circuitry.
  Annual review of vision science 2021 Lee JY, Care RA, Della Santina L, Dunn FA
• Disassembly and rewiring of a mature converging excitatory circuit following injury.
  Cell reports 2021 Della Santina L, Yu AK, Harris SC, Soliño M, Garcia Ruiz T, Most J, Kuo YM, Dunn FA, Ou Y

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• Mature Retina Compensates Functionally for Partial Loss of Rod Photoreceptors.
  Cell reports 2020 Care RA, Anastassov IA, Kastner DB, Kuo YM, Della Santina L, Dunn FA
• Partial Cone Loss Triggers Synapse-Specific Remodeling and Spatial Receptive Field Rearrangements in a Mature Retinal Circuit.
  Cell reports 2019 Care RA, Kastner DB, De la Huerta I, Pan S, Khoche A, Della Santina L, Gamlin C, Santo Tomas C, Ngo J, Chen A, Kuo YM, Ou Y, Dunn FA
• Synaptic Convergence Patterns onto Retinal Ganglion Cells Are Preserved despite Topographic Variation in Pre- and Postsynaptic Territories.
  Cell reports 2018 Yu WQ, El-Danaf RN, Okawa H, Pacholec JM, Matti U, Schwarz K, Odermatt B, Dunn FA, Lagnado L, Schmitz F, Huberman AD, Wong ROL
• Synaptogenesis and synaptic protein localization in the postnatal development of rod bipolar cell dendrites in mouse retina.
  The Journal of comparative neurology 2017 Anastassov IA, Wang W, Dunn FA
• Photoreceptor ablation initiates the immediate loss of glutamate receptors in postsynaptic bipolar cells in retina.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015 Dunn FA
• Wiring patterns in the mouse retina: collecting evidence across the connectome, physiology and light microscopy.
  The Journal of physiology 2014 Dunn FA, Wong RO
• Sensory experience shapes the development of the visual system's first synapse.
  Neuron 2013 Dunn FA, Della Santina L, Parker ED, Wong RO
• The spatial structure of a nonlinear receptive field.
  Nature neuroscience 2012 Schwartz GW, Okawa H, Dunn FA, Morgan JL, Kerschensteiner D, Wong RO, Rieke F
• Diverse strategies engaged in establishing stereotypic wiring patterns among neurons sharing a common input at the visual system's first synapse.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Dunn FA, Wong RO
• Spontaneous olfactory receptor neuron activity determines follower cell response properties.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Joseph J, Dunn FA, Stopfer M
• Single-photon absorptions evoke synaptic depression in the retina to extend the operational range of rod vision.
  Neuron 2008 Dunn FA, Rieke F
• Light adaptation in cone vision involves switching between receptor and post-receptor sites.
  Nature 2007 Dunn FA, Lankheet MJ, Rieke F
• Synaptic influences on rat ganglion-cell photoreceptors.
  The Journal of physiology 2007 Wong KY, Dunn FA, Graham DM, Berson DM
• The impact of photoreceptor noise on retinal gain controls.
  Current opinion in neurobiology 2006 Dunn FA, Rieke F
• Controlling the gain of rod-mediated signals in the Mammalian retina.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006 Dunn FA, Doan T, Sampath AP, Rieke F
• Photoreceptor adaptation in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
  Neuron 2005 Wong KY, Dunn FA, Berson DM
• Visual pigment phosphorylation but not transducin translocation can contribute to light adaptation in zebrafish cones.
  Neuron 2004 Kennedy MJ, Dunn FA, Hurley JB