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John G. Flannery is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these disciplines, specific subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Genetics, and Ophthalmology.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses topics related to retinal biology and therapy. Key areas of focus include retinal development and disorders, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, virus-based gene therapy research, retinal diseases and treatments, neuroscience and neural engineering, retinopathy of prematurity studies, and retinal and macular surgery.

Frequent collaborators in their research career include Meike Visel, Leah C. Byrne, David V. Schaffer, Valérie Dufour, and Simone Iwabe, indicating sustained partnerships in related scientific investigations.

John G. Flannery has published multiple papers, with recent contributions including:

  • In vivo-directed evolution of adeno-associated virus in the primate retina, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Advancing Clinical Trials for Inherited Retinal Diseases: Recommendations from the Second Monaciano Symposium, 2020, Translational Vision Science & Technology
  • Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Disease: Long-Term Durability of Effect, 2022, Ophthalmic Research
  • scAAVengr, a transcriptome-based pipeline for quantitative ranking of engineered AAVs with single-cell resolution, 2021, eLife
  • Targeting ON-bipolar cells by AAV gene therapy stably reverses LRIT3-congenital stationary night blindness, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist's work has been published across various venues, with multiple publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and UNC Libraries. Other frequent publication venues include Translational Vision Science & Technology, JCI Insight, and Ophthalmic Research.

Best Publications

  • In Vivo???Directed Evolution of a New Adeno-Associated Virus for Therapeutic Outer Retinal Gene Delivery from the Vitreous

    Deniz Dalkara;Leah C. Byrne;Ryan R. Klimczak;Meike Visel

  • Activation of specific interneurons improves V1 feature selectivity and visual perception

    Seung-Hee Lee;Alex C. Kwan;Siyu Zhang;Victoria Phoumthipphavong

  • Ribozyme rescue of photoreceptor cells in a transgenic rat model of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.

    Alfred S. Lewin;Kimberly A. Drenser;William W. Hauswirth;Shimpei Nishikawa

  • Efficient photoreceptor-targeted gene expression in vivo by recombinant adeno-associated virus

    J G Flannery;S Zolotukhin;M I Vaquero;M M LaVail

  • Remote Control of Neuronal Activity with a Light-Gated Glutamate Receptor

    Stephanie Szobota;Pau Gorostiza;Filippo Del Bene;Claire Wyart

  • One-Year Outcomes in Caregivers of Critically Ill Patients

    Jill I. Cameron;Leslie M. Chu;Andrea Matte;George Tomlinson

  • Inner limiting membrane barriers to AAV-mediated retinal transduction from the vitreous.

    Deniz Dalkara;Kathleen D Kolstad;Natalia Caporale;Meike Visel

  • The RECOVER Program: Disability Risk Groups and 1-Year Outcome after 7 or More Days of Mechanical Ventilation.

    Margaret S Herridge;Leslie M Chu;Andrea Matte;George Tomlinson

  • bcl-2 overexpression reduces apoptotic photoreceptor cell death in three different retinal degenerations

    Jeannie Chen;John G. Flannery;Matthew M. LaVail;Roy H. Steinberg

  • Ribozyme rescue of photoreceptor cells in P23H transgenic rats: Long-term survival and late-stage therapy

    Matthew M. LaVail;Douglas Yasumura;Michael T. Matthes;Kimberly A. Drenser

  • Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor Delays Photoreceptor Degeneration in a Transgenic Rat Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

    Laura H.McGee Sanftner;Hilla Abel;William W. Hauswirth;John G. Flannery

  • A novel adeno-associated viral variant for efficient and selective intravitreal transduction of rat Müller cells.

    Ryan R. Klimczak;James T. Koerber;Deniz Dalkara;John G. Flannery;John G. Flannery

  • Intravitreal Injection of AAV2 Transduces Macaque Inner Retina

    Lu Yin;Kenneth Greenberg;Kenneth Greenberg;Jennifer J. Hunter;Deniz Dalkara

  • Retinal degeneration is slowed in transgenic rats by AAV-mediated delivery of FGF-2.

    Dana Lau;Laura H. McGee;Shangzhen Zhou;Katherine G. Rendahl

  • Molecular Evolution of Adeno-associated Virus for Enhanced Glial Gene Delivery

    James T. Koerber;Ryan Klimczak;Jae Hyung Jang;Deniz Dalkara

  • LiGluR restores visual responses in rodent models of inherited blindness.

    Natalia Caporale;Kathleen D Kolstad;Trevor Lee;Ivan Tochitsky

  • Inherited Retinal Degenerations: Current Landscape and Knowledge Gaps.

    Jacque L. Duncan;Eric A. Pierce;Amy M. Laster;Stephen P. Daiger

  • The rd mouse story: Seventy years of research on an animal model of inherited retinal degeneration

    Debora B. Farber;John G. Flannery;Cathy Bowes-Rickman

  • Tissue-specific and developmental regulation of rod opsin chimeric genes in transgenic mice.

    Janis Lem;Meredithe L. Applebury;Jeffrey D. Falk;John G. Flannery

  • Efficient photoreceptor-targeted gene expression in vivo by recombinant adeno-associated virus (gene therapyyretinayretinitis pigmentosa)

    John G. Flannery;Sergei Zolotukhin;M. Lavail;Nicholas Muzyczka

Frequent Co-Authors

David V. Schaffer
David V. Schaffer University of California, Berkeley
Deniz Dalkara
Deniz Dalkara Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
William W. Hauswirth
William W. Hauswirth University of Florida
Ehud Y. Isacoff
Ehud Y. Isacoff University of California, Berkeley
Matthew M. LaVail
Matthew M. LaVail University of California, San Francisco
Richard H. Kramer
Richard H. Kramer University of California, Berkeley
Dirk Trauner
Dirk Trauner University of Pennsylvania
William H. Merigan
William H. Merigan University of Rochester
Yang Dan
Yang Dan University of California, Berkeley
Gustavo D. Aguirre
Gustavo D. Aguirre University of Pennsylvania

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