Graduate Faculty Profiles
PhD Faculty Advisors
Jose-Manuel Alonso, MD, PhD
Functional Circuitry of the Thalamus and Cortex
Benjamin Backus, PhD
Learning in Visual Perception
Kenneth Ciuffreda, OD, PhD
Abnormal Oculomotor Systems/Head Trauma
Jerome Feldman, PhD
Visual Learning/Operant and Classical Conditioning
Philip B. Kruger, OD, PhD
Stimuli for Accommodation/Wavefront Abberation
Barry B. Lee, Ph.D.
Information Transfer Through Retinal Ganglion Cells
Robert McPeek, PhD
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attention and Visually-Guided Actions
Jordan Pola, PhD
The Control of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement
Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD
Patient-Based Research in Presbyopia and Contact Lenses
Peter Reinach, PhD
Cornea Cell Signaling/Corneal Wound Healing
Mark Rosenfield MC Optom, PhD
Myopia and Retinal Defocus
Robert Sack, PhD
Biochemistry of the Pre-Ocular Tear Film Proteins
Steven H. Schwartz, OD, PhD
Psychophysical Investigations of Glaucoma
Harold A. Sedgwick, PhD
Perception of Spatial Layout in Low Vision
Miduturu Srinivas, PhD
Gating and Pharmacology of Lens Gap Junction Channels
David Troilo, PhD
Visual Development, Accommodation, Refractive Error, Myopia
Qasim Zaidi, PhD
Color Perception/Three-Dimensional Shape Perception
MS Faculty Advisors
Jeffrey Cooper, OD, MS
Convergence Insufficiency
Robert H. Duckman, OD, MS
Amblyopia
Mitchell Dul, OD, MS
Perimetry/Visual Fields/Psychophysics/Glaucoma
Ralph Gundel, OD
Contact Lens and Cornea and Keratoconus
Joan K. Portello, OD, MPH, MS
Computer Vision Syndrome
Danielle Rutner, OD, MS
Visual Rehabilitation
Jerome Sherman, OD
Ocular Disease
Postdoctoral Fellows
Biological Sciences
Junghyun Park
Vision Sciences
Graduate Students
Robert Ennis (Summer 2008)
Advisor: Zaidi
Stanley Komban (Fall 2008)
Advisor: Alonso
Reza Lashgari (Summer 2008)
Advisor: Alonso
Preethi Thiagarajan (Winter 2008)
Advisor: Ciuffreda
Yushi Wang (Fall 2007)
Advisor: Alonso
Yuanquan Yang (Aaron) Yang (Fall 2008)
Advisor: Reinach
Jing (Cathy) Yuan (Fall 2008)
Advisor: TBA
Naveen Kumar Yadav (Fall 2009)
Advisor: Ciuffreda
Bonnie Cooper (Fall 2009)
Advisor: Lee/Zaidi
Micheal Jansen (Fall 2010)
Advisor: Zaidi/Alonso
Baptiste Caziot (Fall 2011)
Advisor: Backus
Wool Lauren ((Fall 2011)
Advisor: Zaidi/Alonso
