Erika Eggers
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Associate Professor of Physiology
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
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Associate Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
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Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Degrees
- Ph.D. Physiology and Biophysics
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- B.A. Physics
- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Awards
- Selected for Leadership Development Program for Women
- ARVO, Spring 2016
Courses
Directed Research
NSCS 392 (Spring 2018)
Honors Independent Study
NSCS 299H (Spring 2018)
NSCS 499H (Spring 2018)
BME 299H (Spring 2018)
NSCS 499H (Fall 2017)
NSCS 299H (Fall 2017)
BME 299H (Fall 2017)
PSIO 399H (Spring 2017)
NSCS 399H (Spring 2017)
PSIO 399H (Fall 2016)
Physiology/Biomed Engr
BME 511 (Spring 2018)
PSIO 511 (Spring 2018)
BME 511 (Spring 2017)
Systems Neuroscience
NRSC 560 (Spring 2018)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2017)
Dissertation
PSIO 920 (Spring 2018)
PSIO 920 (Fall 2017)
PSIO 920 (Spring 2017)
Research
PSIO 900 (Spring 2018)
PSIO 900 (Fall 2017)
PSIO 900 (Summer I 2017)
PSIO 900 (Fall 2016)
Honors Thesis
PSIO 498H (Spring 2018)
PSIO 498H (Fall 2017)
BIOC 498H (Spring 2017)
BIOC 498H (Fall 2016)
Biology For Biomed Engr
BME 510 (Fall 2017)
BME 510 (Fall 2016)
Cellular+Molecular Psio
PSIO 503 (Fall 2017)
PSIO 503 (Fall 2016)
Research Methods In Psio
PSIO 610 (Spring 2017)
PSIO 610 (Fall 2016)
Introduction to Research
MCB 795A (Spring 2017)
MCB 795A (Fall 2016)
Independent Study
NSCS 399 (Fall 2016)
Selected Publications
Journals/Publications
- Mazade, R. E., & Eggers, E. D. (2016). Light adaptation alters inner retinal inhibition to shape OFF retinal pathway signaling. Journal of Neurophysiology.
- Moore-Dotson, J. M., Beckman, J. J., Mazade, R. E., Hoon, M., Bernstein, A. S., Romero-Aleshire, M. J., Brooks, H. L., & Eggers, E. D. (2016). Early retinal neuronal dysfunction in diabetic mice: Reduced light-evoked inhibition increases rod pathway signaling. IOVS.
- Mazade, R. E., & Eggers, E. D. (2016). Light adaptation alters inner retinal inhibition to shape OFF retinal pathway signaling. Journal of Neurophysiology.
- Moore-Dotson, J. M., Beckman, J. J., Mazade, R. E., Hoon, M., Bernstein, A. S., Romero-Aleshire, M. J., Brooks, H. L., & Eggers, E. D. (2016). Early retinal neuronal dysfunction in diabetic mice: Reduced light-evoked inhibition increases rod pathway signaling. IOVS.
- Moore-Dotson, J. M., Klein, J. S., Mazade, R. E., & Eggers, E. D. (2015). Different types of retinal inhibition have distinct neurotransmitter release properties. Journal of neurophysiology, jn.00447.2014.
- Eggers, E. D., Klein, J. S., & Moore-Dotson, J. M. (2013). Slow changes in Ca2(+) cause prolonged release from GABAergic retinal amacrine cells. Journal of neurophysiology, 110(3), 709-19.
- Eggers, E. D., Mazade, R. E., & Klein, J. S. (2013). Inhibition to retinal rod bipolar cells is regulated by light levels. Journal of neurophysiology, 110(1), 153-61.
- Eggers, E., Mazade, R. E., & Eggers, E. D. (2013). Light adaptation alters the source of inhibition to the mouse retinal OFF pathway. Journal of neurophysiology.
- Eggers, E. D., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2011). Multiple pathways of inhibition shape bipolar cell responses in the retina. Visual neuroscience, 28(1), 95-108.
- Herrmann, R., Heflin, S. J., Hammond, T., Lee, B., Wang, J., Gainetdinov, R. R., Caron, M. G., Eggers, E. D., Frishman, L. J., McCall, M. A., & Arshavsky, V. Y. (2011). Rod vision is controlled by dopamine-dependent sensitization of rod bipolar cells by GABA. Neuron, 72(1), 101-10.
- Sagdullaev, B. T., Eggers, E. D., Purgert, R., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2011). Nonlinear interactions between excitatory and inhibitory retinal synapses control visual output. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(42), 15102-12.
- Eggers, E. D., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2010). Interneuron circuits tune inhibition in retinal bipolar cells. Journal of neurophysiology, 103(1), 25-37.
- Schubert, T., Kerschensteiner, D., Eggers, E. D., Misgeld, T., Kerschensteiner, M., Lichtman, J. W., Lukasiewicz, P. D., & Wong, R. O. (2008). Development of presynaptic inhibition onto retinal bipolar cell axon terminals is subclass-specific. Journal of neurophysiology, 100(1), 304-16.
- Eggers, E. D., McCall, M. A., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2007). Presynaptic inhibition differentially shapes transmission in distinct circuits in the mouse retina. The Journal of physiology, 582(Pt 2), 569-82.
- Eggers, E. D., & Lukasiewicz, P. D. (2006). GABA(A), GABA(C) and glycine receptor-mediated inhibition differentially affects light-evoked signalling from mouse retinal rod bipolar cells. The Journal of physiology, 572(Pt 1), 215-25.