Education
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998.
Research Interests
- Electrophysiology of channels and receptors
- Transporters in neurodevelopment and adult system
- Signal transduction in retinal circuit
Professional Background
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Assistant Professor, 2001-2003
Representative Peer Review Publications
- Shen, W. Repetitive light stimulation inducing glycine receptor plasticity in the
retinal neurons. J. of Neurophysiology, 94:2231-2238, 2005.
- Shen, W., Finnegan, S.G., Lein, P., Sullivan, S., Slaughter, M.M., and Higgins, D. Bone morphogenetic
proteins regulate ionotropic glutamate receptors. European Journal of Neuroscience 20:2031-2037, 2004.
- Shen, W., Finnegan, S.G., Slaughter, M.M., Glutamate receptor subtypes in human retinal horizontal cells.
Visual Neuroscience 21(1): 89-95, 2004.
- Shen, W. and Slaughter, M.M. A non-excitatory paradigm of glutamate toxicity. Journal of
Neurophysiology 87:1629-1634, 2002.
- W. Shen and M.M. Slaughter. Multireceptor GABAergic regulation of synaptic
communication in amphibian retina. Journal of Physiology 530(1):55-67, 2001.
fellowships
- The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- The Society for Neuroscience
