Editorial Board Member - JOEC
Christophe P. Ribelayga
Associate ProfessorOphthalmology & Visual Science
The University of Texas Health Science Center
USA
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Christophe P. Ribelayga, Ph.D., received his degree in Neuroscience from the University Louis Pasteur (France) in 2000 and followed with postdoctoral training at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA). He was a faculty member in the Department of Neuroscience at The Ohio State University in Columbus (USA) from 2005 to 2009 and moved to his current position in the Ruiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at The University of Texas in Houston (USA) in 2009. He has also joined the faculty at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston in 2009. Dr. Ribelayga’s laboratory studies the function of circadian clocks in the retina, and in particular the role of circadian clocks as adaptive processes to the predictable changes in ambient light intensity. Dr. Ribelayga was an early proponent of studying circadian clocks in the retina, as retinal clocks represent an important physiological mechanism regulating day and night vision. His more recent work has focused on the circadian clock regulation of photoreceptor electrical coupling and its role in the activity of the rod and cone pathways. Dr. Ribelayga has co-authored several widely cited reviews of the biology and physiological impact of circadian clocks in the vertebrate retina.
Other Editorial Board Members - JOEC
Ronald E.P. Frenkel
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
United States
Baha’ N. Noureddin
Department of Ophthalmology
The American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Asaad Ahmed Ibrahiem Ghanem
Mansoura Ophthalmic Center
Mansoura University
Egypt
