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DR MICHAEL PIANTA



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: LECTURER - OPTOMETRY
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Level: 01
Building: 374 Cardigan St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Postgraduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2004
Bachelor of Science (Optometry) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Master of Optometry University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1999
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2006

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Member 01-Jan-2006 31-Dec-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Mechanisms underlying the perception of surface slant Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
The relationship between retinal structure and function in retinitis pigmentosa Chief Investigator RETINA AUST Research Grants 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Neuronal and glial cell expression of angiotensin II type-1 (AT1) and type-2 (AT2) receptors in the rat retina
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 161
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 195-213
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  • Relationship of the optical coherence tomography signal to underlying retinal histology in the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri).
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 414-423
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  • The contribution of human cone photoreceptors to the photopic flicker electroretinogram.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-12
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • AT1 Receptor Inhibition Prevents Astrocyte Degeneration and Restores Vascular Growth in Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Glia
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 1076-1090
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  • A more coherent relationship between optical coherence tomography scans and retinal anatomy.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 91
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 327-329
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  • Dark adaptation recovery of human rod bipolar cell response kinetics estimated from scotopic b-wave measurements.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 586
    Page numbers: 5419-5436
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Neuronal and glial cell changes are determined by retinal vascularization in retinopathy of prematurity
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 504
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 404-417
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • The effect of surface placement and surface overlap on stereo slant contrast and enhancement
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 25-26
    Page numbers: 3083-3095
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • In vivo micropathology of best macular dystrophy with optical coherence tomography.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Experimental Eye Research
    Volume: 76
    Page numbers: 203-211
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  • Crumbs homolog 1 (CRB1) mutations result in a thick human retina with abnormal lamination.


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Human Molecular Genetics
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1073-1078
    Page numbers: 12
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  • Opposing views on orthogonal adaptation: a reply to Westheimer and Gee (2002)


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 717-719
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  • Monocular gap stereopsis: manipulation of the outer edge disparity and the shape of the gap
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 1937-1950
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Paired and unpaired features can be equally effective in human depth perception.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1-6
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Naturally occurring rhodopsin mutation in the dog causes retinal dysfunction and degeneration mimicking human dominant re3t
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 99
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 6328-6333
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Localization of amino acid neurotransmitters following in vitro ischemia and anoxia in the rat retina
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 413-427
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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