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Professor Mark Hankins

Seminar

Professor Mark Hankins (SCNi) presents his work on light dependent signalling in the retina and brain, including visual and non-visual light detection. Hosted by Prof Tony Morland.

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Event date
Friday 24 April 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Location
In-person only
Dianna Bowles Lecture Theatre, B/K/018, Biology Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students (postgraduate researchers, taught postgraduates, undergraduates)
Admission
Free admission, booking not required

Event details

Abstract

TBC

About the speaker

Professor Mark Hankins

Mark Hankins is Associate Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology (NLO) and Professor of Visual Neuroscience. His research in visual physiology began with his PhD in Biophysics at Imperial College London. Returning to Imperial College in 1993 with a Wellcome Trust Vision Fellowship, he was appointed to a Lectureship in the Medical School and became a Professor of Visual Neuroscience in 2004. In 2006 he established his research group at the University of Oxford based in the NLO.

His laboratory showed that for the first time that the human primary visual cone pathway is regulated by the activities of an irradiance detector that utilizes a novel photopigment (Hankins and Lucas, 2002). His work has shown that in addition to providing an independent light input to the circadian system and other recipient brain areas, novel photopigments play a critical role in the regulation of local retinal physiology.

Venue details

Wheelchair accessible

Hearing loop

Contact

ybri@york.ac.uk