Episode 1: Interview with Dr. Sam Merlin
Dr. Sam Merlin chats with us about visual neuroscience research, life as a post-doc overseas, and returning to Sydney as an academic and lab head.
Our first Peer Review podcast features an interview with former Bosch Young Investigator committee member, Dr. Sam Merlin. After 6.5 years in Utah, he returns to Sydney as an academic and lab head at Western Sydney University.
Listen to the The Peer Review Episode 1 here:
Check out his papers on visual neuroscience here:
Nurminen L, Merlin S, Bijanzadeh M, Federer F, Angelucci A. Top-Down Feedback Controls Spatial Summation and Response Gain In Primate Visual Cortex. bioRxiv. 2017 Jan 1:094680.
Nurminen L, Merlin S, Bijanzadeh M, Federer F, Angelucci A. Cortico-cortical feedback controls spatial summation in primate visual cortex. BioRxiv. January 2017.
Federer F, Williams D, Ichida J, Merlin S, Angelucci A. Two projection streams from macaque V1 to the pale cytochrome oxidase stripes of V2. Journal of Neuroscience 2013 IF: 6.344.
Merlin S, Horng S, Marotte LR, Sur M, Sawatari A, Leamey CA. Deletion of Ten-m3 induces the formation of eye-dominance domains in mouse visual cortex. Cereb Cortex 2012 Apr; 23(4): 763–74
Leamey CA, Merlin S, Lattouf P, Sawatari A, Zhou X, Demel N, Glendining KA, Oohashi T, Sur M, Fassler R. Ten-m3 Regulates Eye-Specific Patterning in the Mammalian Visual Pathway and Is Required for Binocular Vision. PLOS Biology 2007 Sep 4; 5(9): 2077–2092.
