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ABOUT DERIC
The chemistry of vision
My professional life at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 1968-1996 was devoted to teaching and laboratory studies of visual transduction in rod photoreceptor cells. This brief PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY was written in 2006 during a website redesign.
I prepared this graphic social and scientific history of the Bownds Laboratory for a laboratory reunion over the last weekend of May 2012, on the occasion of my 70th birthday. Pictures of the reunion can be found here and of a Social/Musical held at my Madison Twin Valley home here. This talk describing the contributions of my laboratory (from 1968 to 1998) to understanding how light changes into a nerve signal in our eyes was given on May 14, 2013 to the McPherson Eye Research Institute seminar at the University of Wisconsin.
Here are links to Deric's Personal
History, Home & Family Pictures,
and Ancestors
& Family History. The first is
a brief autobiographical account, and the second is mainly
pictures of recent family history, focusing on my kids,
parents (now deceased), partner, and home. The ancestors
and family history link takes you to an illustrated narrative
presentation of the genealogical and family history files
left by my parents, Marlin and Helen Bownds.
Contact me.
email: mdbownds@wisc.edu
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