Short CV
1985 – 1989 | Ph.D. student Department of Sensory Physics of the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the University of Amsterdam |
1989 – 1991 | Postdoctoral fellow Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Division Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley |
1991 – 1996 | Royal Academy Fellow Department of Sensory Physics of the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam. |
1996 – 1999 | Senior Researcher Department of Visual System Analysis of the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (NORI-KNAW) and Department of Sensory Physics of the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam. |
1999 - 2005 | Group leader: Retinal Signal Processing The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (NORI-KNAW) and Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam. |
2003 – 2005 | Science Deputy Director NORI The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (NORI-KNAW) |
2005 - present | Group leader: Retinal Signal Processing The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) |
2007 - present | Professor in “Neurophysiology in particular Sensory-physiology” Department of Neurogenetics of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam. |
- Retinal neural coding
- Mechanisms of synaptic transmission of neurons responding with graded potentials.
- Mechanisms of colour vision and colour constancy
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- SFN
Further Activities
- ARVO program planning committee member for VN (2009-2011)
Maarten Kamermans |
Research Group
Retinal Signal Processing
Key Publications
- Leanne Godinho, Philip R. Williams, Yvonne Claassen, Elayne Provost, Steven D. Leach, Maarten Kamermans and Rachel O. L. Wong.
In vivo imaging reveals novel modes of horizontal cell genesis in the developing zebrafish retina.
Neuron 56(4):587-603 (2007)
- M. van Leeuwen, C. Joselevitch, I. Fahrenfort and M. Kamermans.
The contribution of the outer retina to color constancy: a general model synthesized from primate and fish data.
Vis Neurosci 24:1-14 (2007)
- C. Shields, J. Klooster, Y. Claassen, Mahboob-ul-hussain, Georg Zoidl, R. Dermietzel and M. Kamermans.
Horizontal cells-specific expression of connexin 52.6 & connexin 55.5 in the zebrafish retina.
J. Comp Neurol 501:765-779. (2007)
- C. Joselevitch and M. Kamermans
The physiological role of opponency in goldfish bipolar cells.
J. Neurosci Res 85(7):1579-1591. (2007)
- Fahrenfort I, Sjoerdsma T, Ripps H, Kamermans M
Cobalt ions inhibit negative feedback in the outer retina by blocking hemichannels on horizontal cells.
Vis Neurosci 21: 501-511. (2004)
- Kamermans M, Fahrenfort I
Ephaptic interactions within a chemical synapse: hemichannel-mediated ephaptic inhibition in the retina.
Curr Opin Neurobiol 14: 531-541. (2004)
- M. Kamermans, D.A. Kraaij and H. Spekreijse
The dynamics of the signal from horizontal cells to cones in the goldfish retina.
J Physiol 534(2): 489-500 (2001)
- M. Kamermans, I. Fahrenfort, K. Schultz, U. Janssen-Bienhold, T. Sjoerdsma and R. Weiler
Hemichannel mediated inhibition in the outer retina.
Science 292: 1178-1180 (2001)
- D.A.Kraaij, H., Spekreijse and M. Kamermans
The open and closed loop characteristics of the cone/horizontal cell synapse in goldfish retina
J Neurophysiol 84: 1256-1265 (2000)
- M. Kamermans, D.A. Kraaij and H. Spekreijse
The Cone/Horizontal cell network: A possible site for color constancy.
Vis Neurosci 15:787-797 (1998)
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