Optometry Senate Faculty

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 …

Duties Chief, Infant Toddler Clinic Chief, SVACH Clinic Teaching Optometry 240. Diagnosis and Treatment of Sensory/Motor Anomalities Diagnosis and treatment of heterophoria, accommodative, vergence and oculomotor anomalies including sensory anomalies and amblyopia; rationale and methods for treatment with lenses, prism, occlusion, and vision training; design and implementation of treatment programs. Vision Science 215. Infant Vision …

Affiliations Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute & School of Optometry Director, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Research Areas Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception Each waking moment, our brain is bombarded by sensory information, estimated to be nearly one gigabit/sec. Somehow, we make sense of this data stream by extracting the forms of spatiotemporal …

Duties Professor of Neuroscience Immediate Past Dean, School of Optometry Research Interests Pattern vision, abnormal visual development Our research focuses on the mechanisms of pattern vision, and the influence of abnormal visual development on those mechanisms. Research in our lab focuses on how we perceive visual forms and patterns, and how form perception is degrade …

Research Interests Research efforts in the Gronert laboratory are part of a new paradigm that has established lipid networks as critical regulators for the successful execution of healthy immune responses and for maintaining tissue homeostasis. Our research focused on elucidating the role of these endogenous protective networks in ocular immune and reparative responses and retinal …

Teaching Vision Science 206A. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye and Visual System Co-Instructor-in-Charge An overview of the gross anatomy of the eye; followed by an introduction of eye-relevant cellular biology, molecular biology and genetics; basic concepts of physiological and developmental processes of various non-neural components in the eye; appreciation of the pathophysiology of various …

Duties Professor of Optometry and Vision Science, Infectious Diseases & Immunity, and Microbiology Teaching Vision Science 206A. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye and Visual System Instructor-in-Charge Structure and function of the tissues of the eye, ocular appendages and the central visual pathways; basic concepts of physiological, neurological, embryological, and immunological processes as they relate …

Duties Professor of Neurobiology, Dept. Molecular & Cell Biology Assoc. Director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Teaching Vision Science 206D. Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye and Visual System Instructor-in-Charge Structure and function of the neurosensory retina, photoreceptors, RPE including blood supply. Current concepts of etiology and management of major retinal conditions. Overview of diagnostic techniques …