Split Screens: Exploring Vision through the Eyes of the Four-Eyed Fish

LSU researcher Patricia Schneider’s lab uses Anableps as a powerful and fascinating research model to explore how new traits develop and evolve. This unique fish has a partially duplicated eye that allows it to see both above and below the water’s surface at the same time, all through a single optic nerve. The Schneider Lab combines developmental biology, morphology, and genomics to understand how evolution shapes the structure and function of the vertebrate eye, and how the brain brings this dual visual information together into one seamless view of the world.

About the Speaker

Patricia Schneider is an assistant professor at LSU. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from the Federal University of Pará in Brazil, completed her Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Iowa, and pursued postdoctoral training at both the University of Chicago and Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She joined the LSU Department of Biological Sciences in the spring of 2022. Since then, her research has explored the evolutionary innovations of visual systems, with a special focus on the remarkable four-eyed fish, Anableps .

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