Optometry Senate Faculty

Jacob did his doctoral research in neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin (with Alex Huk and Jonathan Pillow) and his postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester (with Jude Mitchell, Greg DeAngelis, and Michele Rucci) and the University of Maryland (with Dan Butts). His research focuses on how populations of neurons in cortex encode …

Research Area Ocular motor control The ocular motor system is a beautiful model to study the brain. It contains examples of highly compartmentalized functions like the vestibular ocular reflex but also widespread networks that collaborate to decide where to look next or follow a moving target. We are interested in understanding how we move our …

Research Areas Probing spatial and chromatic vision with small-spot psychophysics During daytime, most humans are capable of perceiving fine spatial detail and a rich palette of colors. This sensory capacity is remarkable considering our visual percepts are constructed from just three types of photoreceptor signals—those arising from L, M, and S cones. To obtain an …

Research Interests Seeing In 3D The visual system does not directly encode 3D information, so it must be inferred from a variety of visual cues, such as linear perspective and binocular disparity. We study how these cues are used and combined in our perception of the 3D world, and how this perception is shaped by …

Chair Vision Science Graduate Program Research Interests The goal of my research is to understand how neural circuits within the mammalian retina encode and transmit information about the visual environment. Ultimately, understanding circuit function in the healthy and diseased retina will aid in the development of treatments designed to restore sight. To this end, it …

Duties Faculty Advisor for GSI Affairs Research Areas Retinal Neurobiology and Neurophysiology We are interested in how visual signals are encoded and transmitted by neurons in the healthy retina and how signaling is perturbed during the course of retinal degeneration. Ongoing projects in the lab are addressing the following questions: How do retinal neurons extract …

Affiliations Center for Eye Disease and Development NEI Summer Research Training Program Director, Oxyopia Seminars Research Areas Eye growth regulation, refractive development and myopia (short-sightedness) – application of molecular & neurobiology, advanced imaging, and tissue engineering tools towards understanding mechanisms & developing novel therapies. My research interests are mainly centered around refractive development and myopia …

Duties Head Graduate Advisor, Vision Science Program Affiliations Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Research Interests Neural correlates of human visual perception, attention, and learning The goals of our laboratory’s research are to understand how the brain constructs representations of the environment and how these representations are modified by cognitive processes such as attention, expectation, and learning. …

Research Interests High resolution retinal imaging, adaptive optics, physiological optics, limits of human vision The human eye has a complex and exquisitely designed optical system, yet when compared with modern optical systems, its image quality is surprisingly poor. Our lab investigates these earliest stages of vision, from the formation of the retinal image to its …