Short CV
Diploma (Biology) | University of Zürich, Switzerland |
PhD (Mol.Biology) | University of Zürich, Switzerland |
1998 – 2006 | Research Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA |
Since 2006 | Lecturer and Principle Investigator, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London. |
- Establishment of visual circuitry in healthy and diseased states
- Pathfinding and targeting decisions by retinal ganglion cell axons
- Formation of retinal cell subtypes and their specific synaptic interactions
- British Society for Developmental Neurobiology
- Swiss Society for Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics (ZMG)
- Society for Neuroscience (USA)
- International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
- International Society for Transgenic Technologies
Robert Hindges |
Key Publications
- Pinter, R. & Hindges, R. (2010).
Perturbations of MicroRNA Function in Mouse Dicer Mutants Produce Retinal Defects and Lead to Aberrant Axon Pathfinding at the Optic Chiasm,
PLoS ONE 5(4): e10021. - van Diepen, M.T., Parsons, M., Downes, C.P., Leslie, N.R., Hindges, R. & Eickholt, B.J. (2009).
MyosinV controls PTEN function and neuronal cell size.
Nature Cell Biol. 11: 1191-1196. - Marler, K., Becker-Barroso, E., Martinez, A., Llovera, M., Wentzel, C., Poopalasundaram, S., Hindges, R., Soriano, E., Comella, J. & Drescher, U. (2008).
A TrkB - ephrinA interaction controls retinal axon branching and synaptogenesis.
J. Neuroscience 28: 12700-12712. - Reber, M., Hindges, R. & Lemke, G (2007).
Eph receptors and ephrin ligands in axon guidance.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 621:32-49. - Pak, W., Hindges, R., Lim, Y.-S., Pfaff, S.L. & O’Leary, D.D.M. (2004).
Magnitude of binocular vision controlled by Islet-2 repression of a genetic program that specifies laterality of retinal axon pathfinding.
Cell 119: 567-578. - McLaughlin, T., Hindges, R., Yates, P.A. & O’Leary, D.D.M. (2003).
Bifunctional action of ephrin-B1 as a repellent and attractant to control bidirectional branch extension in dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping.
Development 130: 2407-2418. - McLaughlin, T., Hindges, R. & O’Leary, D.D.M. (2003).
Regulation of axial patterning of the retina and its topographic mapping in the brain.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 13: 57-69. - Hindges, R., McLaughlin, T., Genoud, N., Henkemeyer, M. & O’Leary, D.D.M. (2002).
EphB forward signaling controls directional branch extension and arborization required for dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping.
Neuron 35: 475-487. - Mui, S.H., Hindges, R., O'Leary, D.D.M., Lemke, G. & Bertuzzi, S. (2002).
The homeodomain protein Vax2 patterns both the dorsoventral and nasotemporal axes of the eye.
Development 129: 797-804 - Bertuzzi, S., Hindges, R., Mui, S.H., O’Leary, D.D.M. & Lemke, G. (1999).
The homeoboxprotein Vax1 is required for axon guidance and major tract formation in the developing forebrain.
Genes & Development 13: 3092-3105.
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