Dr. Frank Schaeffel is the leader of the Section of Neurobiology of the Eye at the Institute of Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University Clinics Tuebingen, Germany.
Short CV
- studies biology and physics, University of Freiburg
- Dr. rer. nat. Biophysics, same place
- Postdoc with Howard Howland Cornell University
- Postdoc with Eberhart Zrenner Max-Planck lab Munich
- Professor and head of Section of Neurobiology of the Eye, Ophthalmic Research Institute University of Tuebingen
- gene expression during myopia development
- role of insulin and glucagon in eye growth control
- peripheral optics of the eye
- contrast adaptation during defocus
- microelectrode (MEA) recordings from ganglion cells during imposed defocus
- ARVO since 1986
- Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft since 1997
- Editorial board Vision Research since 1998
- Editorial Board Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics since 2006
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Key Publications
- Schaeffel F.
Binocular lens tilt and decentration measurements in healthy subjects with phakic eyes.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 May;49(5):2216-22 - Brand C, Schaeffel F, Feldkaemper MP.
A microarray analysis of retinal transcripts that are controlled by image contrast in mice.
Mol Vis. 2007 Jun 18;13:920-32 - Schaeffel F, Mathis U, Brüggemann G.
Noncycloplegic photorefractive screening in pre-school children with the "PowerRefractor" in a pediatric practice.
Optom Vis Sci. 2007 Jul;84(7):630-9 - Schippert R, Burkhardt E, Feldkaemper M, Schaeffel F.
Relative axial myopia in Egr-1 (ZENK) knockout mice.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Jan;48(1):11-7 - Diether S, Schaeffel F, Lambrou GN, Fritsch C, Trendelenburg AU.
Effects of intravitreally and intraperitoneally injected atropine on two types of experimental myopia in chicken.
Exp Eye Res. 2007 Feb;84(2):266-74 - Schippert R, Schaeffel F.
Peripheral defocus does not necessarily affect central refractive development.
Vision Res. 2006 Oct;46(22):3935-40 - Mathis U, Schaeffel F.
Glucagon-related peptides in the mouse retina and the effects of deprivation of form vision.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2007 Feb;245(2):267-75 - Schaeffel F.
Myopia: the importance of seeing fine detail.
Curr Biol. 2006 Apr 4;16(7):R257-9 - de la Cera EG, Rodríguez G, Llorente L, Schaeffel F, Marcos S.
Optical aberrations in the mouse eye.
Vision Res. 2006 Aug;46(16):2546-53
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