Dr. Steven Barnes a Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at UCLA, based at the Doheny Eye Institute. His retinal neurobiology lab aims to probe the function of cells and synapses in the retina, integrating this knowledge with the emerging impact that retinal diseases, such as glaucoma and macular degeneration, have on retinal cell activity and vision due to disrupted metabolic function. Prior to joining UCLA and the Doheny Eye Institute in 2018, Dr. Barnes had been a Professor of Physiology & Biophysics at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada for 20 years. Before that, he’d been Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from UC Berkeley under Frank Werblin and did postdoctoral training with Bertil Hille at the University of Washington in Seattle.