One of Montana’s own native sons, Jay Neitz, an MSU graduate and now the Bishop Endowed Professor in Ophthalmology at University of Washington Medical School, returned to Bozeman this week to inspire us with a breathtaking report from the field of color vision.
In the latest Kopriva Seminar, “Reweaving the Rainbow: Gene Therapy and It’s Potential for Treating Vision Disorders”, Jay explained how we perceive color (or don’t) and that we share the mechanism of our color vision with other primates, including squirrel monkeys. Jay demonstrated how gene therapy can be used to “cure” color blindness in our primate cousins, who are not only extremely intelligent but also adorable.
For more about squirrel monkeys, gene therapy, color blindness and why you should know about this, please take a look at the wonderful website from the Neitz lab.
http://neitzvision.com
