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How light traverses the inverted vertebrate retina

• A. Reichenbach

  Born in 1950 in Leipzig, Germany, where he also studied Medicine and specialized as a physiologist working on the retina. For the past 30 years, he has focused his interests—including those of a large number of fellows in his team and several collaborating scientists worldwide—on glia cell research, in particular on elucidation of the versatile functions of Müller radial glial cells in the retina. In order to inspire young scientists to further glial cell research, Andreas Reichenbach has organized two Research Training Schools for the German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and one European Marie Curie Initial Training Network. He has held a professorship at Leipzig University since 1994.

  , S. Agte

  Born 1980 in Halle/Saale, studied Medical Physics at the Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg. She then began work on her dissertation “Light guidance in Müller cells of the vertebrate retina” in the faculty of Experimental Physics I at the University Leipzig (soft matter physics division, Prof. Josef Käs) in close collaboration with the team of Prof. Andreas Reichenbach (Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research). To support this interdisciplinary cooperation, Silke Agte was a member of the DFG graduate school InterNeuro (GRK 1097). Since 2013, Silke Agte has been working as a postdoc at the Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, continuing her research on the biophysics of the retina.

  , M. Francke

  Bin 1965 in Rostock, Germany. He studied Biology in Leipzig, with the focus on animal physiology, neurophysiology and immunology. In 1993 he joined Prof. Andreas Reichenbach’s lab and carried out research in the field of glia cells and their interaction with retinal neurons, particularly in retinal pathologies. At this time he participated in two DFG graduate schools (“Intercell” and “Interneuro” as a postdoc). In 2008 he went to Cambridge (UK) for a postdoc research project in the Cavendish lab (physics department) and continued the interdisciplinary research on biomechanics and optics of retinal tissue and cancer stem cells. Since 2010, Mike Francke has been an independent group leader at the Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine, University Leipzig. In addition to research on a new therapeutic approach to treat progressive myopia, he is currently working on retinal imaging techniques and species-specific variations of foveal structures.

  und K. Franze

  Born in 1976 in Halle/Saale. He first studied veterinary medicine and then obtained a PhD in physics, which was supported by the DFG graduate school InterNeuro, in Leipzig at both the physics department with Josef Käs and the Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research with Andreas Reichenbach. Subsequently, he obtained a Humboldt Fellowship and went to Cambridge (UK) for a postdoc, again at the physics and neuroscience departments. Since 2011, Kristian Franze has been a University Lecturer and an independent group leader at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience in Cambridge, where he and his group continue his interdisciplinary research on the mechanics and optics of the nervous system.