POSITION: Post-doctoral fellow, Human Vision and Eye Movement Lab and
Clinical fellow, Neuro-ophthalmology, Dpt of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
ADDRESS:
University of British Columbia
Vancouver General Hospital - Eye Care Centre
Ophthalmology Research, 3rd Floor
Vancouver, BC V5Z 3N9
PHONE :
+1 604 875 4111 extension 62929
FAX: +1 604 875 4302
MAIL: mabegg@eyecarecentre.org
Current Research Interests Funding Education Publications
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS / LAB EQUIPMENT
We investigate the effects of partial foreknowledge on the efficacy of saccadic and antisaccadic eye movements, we are describing conditions that lead to systematic spatial deviations of prosaccades, antisaccades and memory guided saccades and we record and quantitatively analyse eye movements of neuro-ophthalmological patients.
Our equipment consists of a video-based eyetracker (Eyelink 1000) and we have access to a 3 Tesla fMRI scanner, which is equipped with a basic eyetracking system as well.
Since December 2007 I am funded by a fellowship for advanced researchers from the Swiss Foundation for Grants in Biology and Medicine (SFGBM) and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
2004 - 2007 Ophthalmology residency at University Eye Clinic, Zurich and Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bern
2000 - 2004 International PhD Program in Neuroscience, Neuroscience Center Zurich
1999 - 2004 MD/PhD-Program at the Brain Research Institute, Zurich
1993 - 1999 Medical school in Zurich and Lausanne, Switzerland
Tappeiner C, Sarra GM and Abegg M: Abuse of Vasoconstrictive Eye Drops Mimicking an Ocular Pemphigoid. European Journal of Ophthalmology (accepted).
Hugel S, Abegg M, de Paola V, Caroni P, Gahwiler BH, McKinney RA: Dendritic Spine Morphology Determines Membrane-Associated Protein Exchange between Dendritic Shafts and Spine Heads. Cereb Cortex [Epub ahead of print] (2008).
Abegg M, Fleischhauer J, Landau K: Unilateral papilledema after trabeculectomy in a patient with intracranial hypertension. Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde 225(5):441-442 (2008).
Tappeiner C, Barthelmes D, Abegg MH, Wolf S, Fleischhauer JC: Impact of optic media opacities and image compression on quantitative analysis of optical coherence tomography. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 49(4):1609-1614, (2008).
Abegg M. Rhythmic synaptic activity induced by mechanical injury of rat CA3 hippocampal area. The Journal of Neurotrauma Sep;24(9):1536-42 (2007).
Fischer D., Fleischhauer J., Keusch G. and Abegg M. Rise in intraocular pressure during hemodialysis in a patient with reduced outflow facility The British Journal of Ophthalmology 91(8):1091-3 (2007).
Abegg M., Kurz M. and Helbig H. Retinal detachment in patients with acute retinal necrosis: a case series Klinische Monatsblätter der Augenheilkunde 224(4):360-3 (2007).
Mori M., Abegg M.H., Gahwiler B.H. & Gerber U. A frequency-dependent switch from inhibition to excitation in a hippocampal unitary circuit. Nature 431, 453-6 (2004).
Abegg, M. H., Savic, N., Ehrengruber, M. U., McKinney, R. A. & Gahwiler, B. H. Epileptiform activity in rat hippocampus strengthens excitatory synapses. J Physiol 554, 439-48 (2004).
Schwyzer L, Mateos JM, Abegg M, Rietschin L, Heeb L, Thompson SM, Lüthi A, Gähwiler BH, McKinney RA. Physiological and morphological plasticity induced by chronic treatment with NT-3 or NT-4/5 in hippocampal slice cultures. Eur J Neurosci. 16(10):1939-48 (2002).
Abegg M, Hafezi F, Wenzel A, Grimm C und Remé Ch.E. Zelltod in der Retinitis pigmentosa: Möglichkeiten der Therapie. Klinische Monatsblätter der Augenheilkunde 216(2): 83-89 (2000).
Hafezi F, Grimm C, Wenzel A, Abegg M, Yaniv M, Remé Ch.E. Retinal photoreceptors are apoptosis-competent in the absence of JunD/AP-1. Cell Death Differ 6(10):934-936 (1999).
Hafezi F, Abegg M, Remé Ch.E. Retinal Degeneration in the Absence of c-fos. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 39(12): 2239-2244 (1998).