Participation in the NEI Summer Research program means that you will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with some of the finest faculty in the world.

Students have said, "The best part of my experience was getting the chance to work with a really great mentor" and "I feel I've gained motivation to consider postgraduate research after obtaining my OD degree" (Student Comments).

The list of participating Faculty Mentors and their areas of research given below should provide you with some idea of the depth and range of research underway at Berkeley Optometry as well as in the Vision Science Program.

Also be sure to visit our NEI Projects page to learn more about the kinds of projects available to our student participants.

Mentors in the NEI Summer Research program

Anthony J. Adams & Marcus Bearse	Early vision and retinal changes in diabetes
Ian L. Bailey	Low vision, clinical decision making
Martin S. Banks	Visual space perception, visual-haptic integration, visually guided navigation
Lu Chen	Corneal Inflammation, lymph/blood vascular biology, immunology, transplantation
Susana Chung	Low vision & spatial vision
Jay M. Enoch	Retinal receptor orientation & increment threshold studies for psychophysics
John G. Flannery	Cell & molecular biology of retinal degeneration
Suzanne Fleiszig & David Evans	Pathogenesis of contact lens-related infections
Ralph D. Freeman	Electrophysiology of visual pathways, development
Xiaohua Gong	Genetics of eye disease
Karsten Gronert	Ocular inflammation/immunology and wound healing
Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy	Color vision, aging, rod monochromatism, clinical psychophysics, infant vision
Stanley A. Klein	Corneal topography, spatial vision
Dennis Levi	Amblyopia & spatial vision
Meng Lin	Cornea and contact lenses, epithelial barrier function, tear mixing, epidemiological outcomes (Clinical Research Center)
Bruno Olshausen	Probabalistic models of image representation in visual cortex
Deborah Orel-Bixler	Vision in infants, children & special needs populations, photorefraction, vision screening
Clifton M. Schor	Accommodation, binocular eye alignment, stereopsis and slant perception
Michael Silver	Neural correlates of human visual perception and attention
Wayne A. Verdon	Clinical electrophysiology (ERG, EOG, VEP)
Gerald Westheimer	Measurement of visual acuity & other spatial thresholds
Christine F. Wildsoet	Mechanisms of myopia development & eye growth regulation

NEI Summer Research Program
wildsoet@berkeley.edu
c/o Christine Wildsoet, OD, PhD
588 Minor Hall, School of Optometry,
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-643-4472; Fax: 510-643-5109