W. Ted Allison
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences
- ted.allison@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4430
- Address
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Z10-32, Z10-33 Bio Science - D.M. Ross Zoology Tower
11355 - Saskatchewan DriveEdmonton ABT6G 2E9
Chair, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences
- biochair@ualberta.ca
- Address
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CW422 Bio Science - Centre Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan DriveEdmonton ABT6G 2E9
Overview
About
W. Ted Allison is a neuroscientist appointed as a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, where he has served as Department Chair since 2024. Dr. Allison is appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Allison's team uses zebrafish to address questions about the evolution and development of vision. They also use zebrafish to understand diseases of neurology and ophthalmology in humans and to develop drug treatments: these include studies of retinitis pigmentosa, Ushers syndrome, glaucoma, ALS, Alzheimer disease, traumatic brain injury, neural complications of cancer (pain and hearing loss), epilepsy and infections. The team is also developing zebrafish as models of astronaut health, especially how the brain and eyes are impacted by microgravity and galactic cosmic radiation, and translating that knowledge into understanding treatment of glaucoma and cancer.
Dr. Allison is a member of the Centre for Prions & Protein Folding Diseases, the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, the Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta, and the Institute for Space Science, Exploration and Technology. He is also active in the WCHRI Translational Genomics Hub and the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium.
Featured Publications
Leith M.T. Alkhatib, Tanja C. Zerulla, Kayla M. Finlay, W. Ted Allison
2026 August; 10.64898/2026.07.31.742143
Austin M. Werner, Jacob A. Dilliplane, Karen Alvarez-Delfin, Michèle G. DuVal, W. Ted Allison, Fan Xiu Zhu, James M. Fadool
2026 July; 10.64898/2026.07.01.735836
Laszlo F. Locskai, Shayleen Ghassemi, Samantha A.W. Tan, Melissa J. Kinley, W. Ted Allison
2026 June; 10.64898/2026.06.20.733541
Richard Kanyo, Ethan Smith, W. Ted Allison, Harley T. Kurata
2026 May; 10.64898/2026.05.27.728255
Fox APD, Lee TS, Mithaiwala SN, Pollock NM, Latif A, Bhavsar AP, Allison WT
Frontiers in immunology. 2025 November; 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1679375
Laszlo F. Locskai, Taylor Gill, Samantha A. W. Tan, Alexander H. Burton, Hadeel Alyenbaawi, Edward A. Burton, W. Ted Allison
Biology Open. 2025 February; 10.1242/bio.060601
Laszlo F. Locskai, Taylor Gill, Samantha A.W. Tan, Alexander H. Burton, Hadeel Alyenbaawi, Edward A. Burton, W. Ted Allison
2024 June; 10.1101/2024.06.14.599067
Edward Pokrishevsky, Michéle G. DuVal, Luke McAlary, Sarah Louadi, Silvia Pozzi, Andrei Roman, Steven S. Plotkin, Anke Dijkstra, Jean-Pierre Julien, W. Ted Allison, Neil R. Cashman
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2024 May; 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107207
Locskai LF, Alyenbaawi H
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology. 2023 October; 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-051921-013930
Elizabeth D. Hodges, Paul W. Chrystal, Tim Footz, Lance P. Doucette, Nicole C. L. Noel, Zixuan Li, Michael A. Walter, W. Ted Allison
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023 September; 10.3390/ijms241914423
Aaron P.D. Fox, Tracy S. Lee, Sakina N. Mithaiwala, Niall M. Pollock, Amit P. Bhavsar, W. Ted Allison
2023 September; 10.1101/2023.09.13.557392
Kanyo R, Lamothe SM, Urrutia A, Goodchild SJ, Allison WT, Dean R, Kurata HT
Function (Oxford, England). 2023 May; 10.1093/function/zqad021
Chrystal PW, Lambacher NJ, Doucette LP, Bellingham J, Schiff ER, Noel NCL, Li C, Tsiropoulou S, Casey GA, Zhai Y, Nadolski NJ, Majumder MH, Tagoe J, D'Esposito F, Cordeiro MF, Downes S, Clayton-Smith J, Ellingford J, Genomics England Research Consortium, Mahroo OA, Hocking JC, Cheetham ME, Webster AR, Jansen G, Blacque OE, Allison WT, Au PYB, MacDonald IM, Arno G, Leroux MR
Nature communications. 2022 November; 10.1038/s41467-022-33820-w
Noel NCL, Allison WT, MacDonald IM, Hocking JC
Progress in retinal and eye research. 2022 July; 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2022.101096
Paul W. Chrystal, Tim Footz, Elizabeth D. Hodges, Justin A. Jensen, Michael A. Walter, W. Ted Allison
Molecules. 2021 June; 10.3390/molecules26123529
EMBO reports. 2021 March; 10.15252/embr.202051280
Hadeel Alyenbaawi, Richard Kanyo, Laszlo F Locskai, Razieh Kamali-Jamil, Michèle G DuVal, Qing Bai, Holger Wille, Edward A Burton, W Ted Allison
eLife. 2021 February; 10.7554/eLife.58744
Emily M. Dong, W. Ted Allison
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2021 January; 10.1098/rspb.2020.2187
Nicole C. L. Noel, Ian M. MacDonald, W. Ted Allison
Biomolecules. 2021 January; 10.3390/biom11010078
A. Phillip Oel, Gavin J. Neil, Emily M. Dong, Spencer D. Balay, Keon Collett, W. Ted Allison
iScience. 2020 December; 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101805
Nicole C. L. Noel, Nathan J. Nadolski, Jennifer C. Hocking, Ian M. MacDonald, W. Ted Allison
Cells. 2020 September; 10.3390/cells9102214
Emily M. Dong, W. Ted Allison
2020 August; 10.1101/2020.08.24.265124
Richard Kanyo, Caroline K. Wang, Laszlo F. Locskai, Jingru Li, W. Ted Allison, Harley T. Kurata
Epilepsia. 2020 August; 10.1111/epi.16592
Edward Pokrishevsky, Michèle G. DuVal, Luke McAlary, Sarah Louadi, Silvia Pozzi, Andrei Roman, Steven S Plotkin, Anke Dijkstra, Jean-Pierre Julien, W. Ted Allison, Neil R. Cashman
2020 July; 10.1101/2020.07.27.224188
Güliz Gürel Özcan, Sumi Lim, Patricia LA Leighton, W Ted Allison, Jason Rihel
eLife. 2020 July; 10.7554/eLife.53995
A. Phillip Oel, Gavin J. Neil, Emily M. Dong, Spencer D. Balay, Keon Collett, W. Ted Allison
2020 June; 10.1101/2020.06.26.173930
Richard Kanyo, Patricia L.A. Leighton, Gavin J. Neil, Laszlo F. Locskai, W. Ted Allison
Experimental Neurology. 2020 June; 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113283
Michèle G. DuVal, Vijaya K. Hinge, Natalie Snyder, Richard Kanyo, Jenna Bratvold, Edward Pokrishevsky, Neil R. Cashman, Nikolay Blinov, Andriy Kovalenko, W. Ted Allison
Neurobiology of Disease. 2019 April; 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.11.025
Nicole C. L. Noel, W. Ted Allison
Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2018 March; 10.1002/cne.24354
Patricia L. A. Leighton, Nathan J. Nadolski, Adam Morrill, Trevor J. Hamilton, W. Ted Allison
Biology Open. 2018 January; 10.1242/bio.025734
Kim JW, Yang HJ, Oel AP, Brooks MJ, Jia L, Plachetzki DC, Li W, Allison WT, Swaroop A
2016 June; 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.05.023
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