Reprint of “In Memoriam” Henk Spekreijse (1940–2006)

Reprint of “In Memoriam” Henk Spekreijse (1940–2006)

Henk Spekreijse suffered a fatal heart attack in Amsterdam on 20 October 2006. From 1991 to 2004 Henk was chairman of the board and editor in chief of Vision Research. Under his guidance the journal flourished and expanded to 28 issues per year. He worked with Elsevier to introduce and fund the pre-ARVO special symposia and initiated the publication of special issues of the journal, which bring...

Henk Spekreijse (1940–2006)

Henk Spekreijse suffered a fatal heart attack in Amsterdam on 20 October 2006. From 1991 to 2004 Henk was chairman of the board and editor in chief of Vision Research. Under his guidance the journal flourished and expanded to 28 issues per year. He worked with Elsevier to introduce and fund the pre-ARVO special symposia and initiated the publication of special issues of the journal, which bring...

From retinal circuitry to eye diseases—In memory of Henk Spekreijse

This article summarizes our recent works on stratum-by-stratum structure-function rules for synaptic contacts between retinal bipolar cells and third-order retinal neurons in the inner plexiform layer. These rules were derived from large-scale voltage clamp recordings of various types of bipolar cells in the tiger salamander retina, and they appear applicable to bipolar cells in the mouse and o...

A special issue in commemoration of Henk Spekreijse (1940–2006), editor of Vision Research from 1991 to 2004. Personal notes

More than two years ago, Dennis Levi, Martin Regan, and I got the idea to compose a special issue of Vision Research in memory of Henk Spekreijse. Henk Spekreijse was one of the two distributing editors of Vision Research since the early 1980s and Editorin-Chief from 1991 to 2004. During this period, the journal blossomed. He initiated major changes in the scope of the journal, making it broade...

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