Epernicus: Cara M Altimus

Cara M Altimus

(Ph.D. in progress)

Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.

Biology

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Advisor:
Samer Hattar
Degrees:

Ph.D. (in progress), Biology, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Past Advisors:
Research:
I am working to understand how light modulates behavior and which retinal photoreceptors mediate this control.
Honors:
2002-2006 Coca Cola Scholar

Communities:

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Rods-cones and melanopsin detect light and dark to modulate sleep independent of image formation.
Altimus CM, Güler AD, Villa KL, McNeill DS, Legates TA, Hattar S

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Dec 16;105(50):19998-20003
Retina-clock relations dictate nocturnal to diurnal behaviors.
McNeill DS, Altimus CM, Hattar S

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Sep 2;105(35):12645-6
Melanopsin cells are the principal conduits for rod-cone input to non-image-forming vision.
Güler AD, Ecker JL, Lall GS, Haq S, Altimus CM, Liao HW, Barnard AR, Cahill H, Badea TC, Zhao H, Hankins MW, Berson DM, Lucas RJ, Yau KW, Hattar S

Nature. 2008 May 1;453(7191):102-5
A genetic network for the clock of Neurospora crassa.
Yu Y, Dong W, Altimus C, Tang X, Griffith J, Morello M, Dudek L, Arnold J, Schüttler HB

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Feb 20;104(8):2809-14
Multiple photoreceptors contribute to nonimage-forming visual functions predominantly through melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells.
Güler AD, Altimus CM, Ecker JL, Hattar S

Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology. 2007;72:509-15

Melanopsin containing retinal ganglion cells are involved in acute induction of sleep in response to ambient light changes (presentation)
Cara M Altimus

Society for Neuroscience; 11/2008
Retinal circuitry underlying acute light effects on Sleep (poster)
Cara M Altimus, Ali D. Guler, Katie L. Villa, Samer Hattar

Society for Research on Biological Rhythms; 05/2008
Melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells are the principal conduits for rod/cone light responses for circadian photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex. (poster)
Cara M Altimus, Jennifer Ecker, Ali Guler, Gulprit Lall, Robert Lucas, Samer Hattar

Cold Spring Harbor, Symposium on Clocks and Rhythms; 05/2007

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