What we really do
2022
Sabbah S, Papendorp C, Behrendt I, Rasras H, Cann J, Leyrer ML, Koplas E, Beltoja M, Etebari C, Gunesch AN, Carrete L, Kim MT, Manoff G, Bhatia-Lin A, Zhao T, Dowling H, Berson DM. (2022). Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells evade temporal filtering to encode environmental light intensity. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2022.04.09.487733.
2022
Sabbah S, Worden MS, Laniado DD, Waugh R, Berson DM, Sanes JN. (2022). Luxotonic signals in human prefrontal cortex as a possible substrate for effects of light on mood and cognition. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2118192119.
2021
Matsumoto A, Agbariah W, Nolte SS, Andrawos R, Levi H, Sabbah S, Yonehara K (2021). Direction selectivity in retinal bipolar cell axon terminals. Neuron, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.07.008.
2019
Lilley BN, Sabbah S, Hunyara J, Gribble KD, Al-Khindi T, Xiong J, Wu Z, Berson DM, and Kolodkin AL. (2019). Genetic access to accessory optic system circuits reveals a role for Sema6A in midbrain circuitry mediating motion perception. Journal of Clinical Neurology. doi: 10.1002/cne.24507.
2018
Stabio ME, Sondereker KB, Haghgou SD, Day BL, Chidsey B, Sabbah S, Renna JM. (2018). A novel map of the mouse eye for orienting retinal topography in anatomical space. Journal of Comparative Neurology. doi: 10.1002/cne.24446.
2018
Stabio ME, Sabbah S, Quattrochi L, Ilardi MC, Fogerson M, Leyrer M, Renna JM, Kim MT, Kim I, Schiel M, Briggman KL, Berson DM. (2018). The M5 cell: A color-opponent intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell. Neuron 97, 150-163.
2017
Sabbah S, Gemmer JA, Bhatia-Lin A, Manoff G, Castro G, Siegel JK, Jeffery N and Berson DM. (2017). A retinal code for motion along the gravitational and body axes. Nature (full-length article) 546:492-497
Featured on journal cover and in:
Demb JB, Clark DA. (2017). Vision: These retinas are made for walkin’. Nature 546:476-477.
2017
Sabbah S, Berg D, Papendorp C, Briggman KL and Berson DM. (2017). A Cre mouse line for probing irradiance- and direction-encoding retinal networks. eNeuro doi:10.1523/eneuro.0065-17.2017.
2013
Fine M, Sabbah S, Shashar N. and Hoegh-Guldberg O. (2013). Light from Down Under. Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 4341-4346.
2013
Sabbah S and Hawryshyn CW. (2013). What has driven the evolution of multiple cone classes in visual systems – object contrast enhancement or light flicker elimination? BMC Biology 11, doi:10.1186/1741-7007-1111-1177.
2013
Sabbah S, Zhu C, Hornsby MAW, Kamermans M and Hawryshyn CW. (2013). Feedback from horizontal cells to cones mediates color induction and may facilitate color constancy in rainbow trout. PLOS One. 8, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066216.
2013
Hornsby MAW#, Sabbah S#, Robertson RM, and Hawryshyn CW. (2013). Modulation of environmental light alters reception and production of visual signals in Nile tilapia. Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 3110-3122. #equal contribution
2013
Sabbah S, Habib-Nayany MF, Dargaei Z, Hauser FE, Kamermans M and Hawryshyn CW. (2013). Retinal region of polarization sensitivity switches during ontogeny of rainbow trout. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 7428-7438.
2013
Sabbah S, Troje NF, Gray SM and Hawryshyn CW. (2013). High complexity of aquatic irradiance may have driven the evolution of four-dimensional colour vision in shallow-water fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1670-1682.
2012
Sabbah S, Hui J, Hauser FE, Nelson WA and Hawryshyn CW. (2012). Ontogeny in the visual system of Nile tilapia. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 2684-2695.
2012
Sabbah S, Gray SM and Hawryshyn CW. (2012). Radiance fluctuations induced by surface waves can enhance the appearance of underwater objects. Limnology & Oceanography 57, 1025–1041.
2011
Gray SM, Sabbah S and Hawryshyn CW. (2011). Experimentally increased turbidity causes behavioural shifts in Lake Malawi cichlids. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 20, 529-536.
2011
Lerner A, Sabbah S, Erlick C and Shashar N. (2011). Navigation by light polarization in clear and turbid ocean. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366, 671-679.
2011
Shashar N, Johnsen S, Lerner A, Sabbah S, Chiao CC, Mathger LM and Hanlon RT. (2011). Underwater linear polarization – physical limitations to biological functions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366, 649-654.
2010
Sabbah S, Lamela Laria R, Gray SM and Hawryshyn CW. (2010). Functional diversity in the color vision of cichlid fishes. BMC Biology 8, doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-1188-1133 (Highly accessed status).
2011
Sabbah S, Gray SM, Boss ES, Fraser JM, Zatha R and Hawryshyn CW. (2011). The underwater photic environment of Cape Maclear, Lake Malawi: Comparison between rock- and sand-bottom habitats and implications for cichlid fish vision. Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 487-500.
2010
Sabbah S, Fraser JM, Boss ES, Blum I and Hawryshyn CW. (2010). Hyperspectral portable beam transmissometer for the ultraviolet – visible spectrum. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods 8, 527-538.
2010
Hawryshyn CW, Ramsden SD, Betke KM and Sabbah S. (2010). Spectral and polarization sensitivity of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): phylogenetic considerations. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 3187-3197.
2010
Anderson LG, Sabbah S and Hawryshyn CW. (2010). Spectral sensitivity of single cones in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): A whole-cell voltage clamp study. Vision Research 50, 2055-2061.
2007
Sabbah S and Shashar N (2007). The polarization of light under water near sunrise. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 24, 2049-2056.
2006
Sabbah S and Shashar N (2006). Underwater light polarization and radiance fluctuations induced by surface waves. Applied Optics 45, 4726-4739.
2006
Sabbah S and Shashar N (2006). Polarization contrast of zooplankton: A model for polarization-based sighting distance. Vision Research 46, 444-456.
2006
Sabbah S, Barta A, Gál J, Horváth G and Shashar N. (2006). Experimental and theoretical study of skylight polarization transmitted through Snell’s window of a flat water surface. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 23, 1978-1988.
2005
Shashar N, Sabbah S and Aharoni N. (2005). Migrating locusts can detect polarized reflections to avoid flying over seas. Biology Letters. 1, 472-475. Featured in ‘Research Highlights’ in Nature 436, 306-307 (2005).
2004
Shashar N, Sabbah S and Cronin TW. (2004). Transmission of linearly polarized light in sea water: implications for polarization signaling. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 3619-3628.
Chapters in Books
11.2.2020
Sabbah S, Lerner A, Erlick C and Shashar N. Under water polarization vision- a physical examination. In Recent Research Developments in Experimental & Theoretical Biology. (Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, 2005), pp. 123-177.