Kwoon Y. Wong, Ph.D.
Selected Publications

• Wong KY, Berson DM. Ganglion-cell photoreceptors and non-image-forming vision. In: Kaufman PL, Alm A, Levin LA, Nilsson SFE, Ver Hoeve JN, Wu SM, eds. Adler's Physiology of the Eye, 11th Edition. Amsterdam:Elsevier, 2010 [in press].
• Ecker JL, Dumitrescu ON, Wong KY, Alam NM, Chen SK, Legates T, Renna JM, Prusky GT, Berson DM, Hattar S. Melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion-cell photoreceptors: Cellular diversity and role in pattern vision. Neuron 2010;67:49-60.
• Dumitrescu ON*, Pucci FG*, Wong KY*, Berson DM. Ectopic retinal ON bipolar cell synapses in the OFF inner plexiform layer: Contacts with dopaminergic amacrine cells and melanopsin ganglion cells. J Comp Neurol 2009;517:226-244. *co-first authors
• Wong KY. Non-photoreceptor photoreception. In: Squire LR, ed. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Amsterdam:Elsevier,2009, pp. 1205-1211.
• Zhang DQ*, Wong KY*, Sollars PJ, Berson DM, Pickard GE, McMahon DG. Intraretinal signaling by ganglion cell photoreceptors to dopaminergic amacrine neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008;105:14181-14186.  *co-first authors
• Graham DM, Wong KY, Shapiro P, Frederick C, Pattabiraman K, Berson DM. Melanopsin ganglion cells use a membrane-associated rhabdomeric phototransduction cascade. J Neurophysiol 2008;99:2522-2532.
• Wong KY, Graham DM, Berson DM. The retina-attached SCN slice preparation: an in vitro mammalian circadian visual system. J Biol Rhythms 2007;22:400-410.
• Wong KY, Dunn FA, Graham DM, Berson DM. Synaptic influences on rat ganglion-cell photoreceptors. J Physiol 2007;582:279-296.
• Wong KY, Dunn FA, Berson DM. Photoreceptor adaptation in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 2005;48:1001-1010.
• Qiu X, Kumbalasiri T, Carlson SM, Wong KY, Krishna V, Provencio I, Berson DM. Induction of photosensitivity by heterologous expression of melanopsin. Nature 2005;433:745-749.
• Wong KY, Dowling JE. Retinal bipolar cell input mechanisms in giant danio. III. ON-OFF bipolar cells and their color-opponent mechanisms. J Neurophysiol 2005;94:265-272.
• Wong KY, Cohen ED, Dowling JE. Retinal bipolar cell input mechanisms in giant danio. II. Patch-clamp analysis of ON bipolar cells. J Neurophysiol 2005;93:94-107.
  
• Wong KY, Adolph AR, Dowling JE. Retinal bipolar cell input mechanisms in giant danio. I. Electroretinographic analysis. J Neurophysiol 2005;93:84-93.