Anna Matynia received her PhD in fission yeast cell cycle at Baylor College of Medicine, and completed her post-doctoral training at UCLA in molecular and behavioral studies of learning and memory in mice with Dr. Alcino Silva. Moving into the field of visual sciences, she started investigating the neural pathways of light-induced pain (photoallodynia) in migraine and corneal surface damage, identifying both retinal and corneal contributions that use melanopsin-expressing cellular pathways. Her studies branched out to include additional ocular pathologies from retinal hemangioblastomas to neurodegenerative effects in Alzheimer’s models. Anna recently moved to the University of Houston College of Optometry as an Associate Professor where she will continue to investigate the role of retinal and corneal innervation in health and disease.