Þór Eysteinsson
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About
Professor at Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland
Contact:
E-mail: thoreys (at) hi.is
Phone: +354 525 4887
Location:
Department of Physiology, Læknagarður, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavik
RESEARCH PROFILE - PUBLICATION
(work in progress)
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University of Iceland, Reykjavik, - BA in psychology, 1981, City University of New York, New York City, USA. PhD in Neuropsychology, 1988.
Appointments: Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York, NY, 1983-1988. Visiting Scientist, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, Jan-April, 1988.
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London, and the Electrodiagnostic Department, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, April 1988-Sept. 1989.
Researcher, Dept. of Physiology, University of Iceland. Sept. 1989- July 1990.
Associate Professor of Physiology (50%); Researcher (50%), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, July 1990-July 1995, July 1995-July 2000.
Part-time position as a clinical electrophysiologist, Dept. of Opthalmology, National University Hospital, Reykjavik, 1999-.
Associate Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Jan. 2001 – Mar. 2009
Visiting Researcher, Dept of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Oct. 2008 – Sept. 2009.
Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Mar. 2009 -
Dissertation: Eysteinsson, T.: Synaptic Basis of Rod-Cone Interaction in the Vertebrate Retina ( PhD, City University of New York, 1988).
Andrea García-Llorca, PhD student.
Project title: The role of the Mitf gene and purine receptors in controlling autophagy and cytokine release in the retinal pigment epithelium.
Collaboration with: Margrét Helga Ögmundsdóttir, Eiríkur Steingrímsson
Hallur Reynisson, MSc Student.
Project title: The Loss of A-Type Current in the Mitf Mutant Olfactory Bulb Projection Neurons.
Collaboration with: Pétur Henry Petersen, Eiríkur Steingrímsson.