SUNY Optometry has nationally and internationally recognized faculty engaged in cutting-edge research in vision science. The College is committed to expanding its research efforts and, as such, continues to search for new outstanding vision scientists to bring on board.
Currently research investigations can be classified in four areas:
- Cell Biology and Ocular Pharmacology:
This group studies the functioning of various components of the eye, using primarily cell and molecular biology approaches. Research interests of this group include: cornea and cell signaling pathways, gap junctions, and the interactions of tear proteins and the cornea.
- Visual Optics:
This group studies accommodation; wavefront aberrations of the eye; pupil dynamics; optics and composite prismatic; binocular vision; optical/accommodative control of emmetropization; myopia and axial elongation; and visual rehabilitation.
- Visual Neurophysiology:
This group studies the neural basis of visual function using electrophysiological and computational methods. Research interests include color processing by retinal and cortical neurons, evolution of color vision, 3-D shape extraction by cortical neurons, neural connectivity, cortical feedback of LGN, effective state of neural responses, neural effects of glaucoma, control of eye-movements, etc.
- Vision and Visual Perception
This group focuses on functional aspects in human vision ranging from low-level detection to high-level perception. Research interests include color vision, visual adaptation, spatio-temporal vision, space perception, 3-Shape perception, visual learning, reading, eye-movements, visual deficits due to glaucoma and diabetes
Jose-Manuel Alonso, M.D., Ph.D. FUNCTIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THE VISUAL THALAMUS AND CORTEX
Benjamin Backus, Ph.D. CUE RECRUITMENT; LEARNING IN VISUAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; BINOCULAR VISION; MOTION PERCEPTION
Kenneth Ciuffreda, O.D., Ph.D. NORMAL AND ABNORMAL OCULOMOTOR SYSTEMS
Mitchell Dul, O.D., M.S. PERIMETRY; VISUAL FIELDS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; GLAUCOMA
Jerry Feldman, Ph.D. VISUAL LEARNING; OPERANT AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
Philip B. Kruger, O.D., Ph.D. STIMULI FOR ACCOMMODATION: DIOPTRIC AND NON-DIOPTRIC CUES
Milton Katz, O. D. CLINICAL EVALUATION OF OPTICAL DEVICES AND THE COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF VISUAL OPTICAL SYSTEMS
Barry B. Lee, Ph.D. INFORMATION TRANSFER THROUGH GANGLION CELLS
Jordan Pola, Ph.D. MOTOR AND PERCEPTUAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN THE CONTROL OF SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT
Peter Reinach, Ph.D. CORNEA CELL SIGNALING
Mark Rosenfield M.C. Optom., Ph.D. MYOPIA AND RETINAL DEFOCUS
Robert Sack, Ph.D. BIOCHEMISTRY AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE PRE-OCULAR TEAR FILM PROTEINS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: PROTEOMICS OF OCULAR FLUIDS
Steven H. Schwartz, O.D., Ph.D. GLAUCOMA; PSYCHOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF PARALLEL PATHWAYS
Harold A. Sedgwick, Ph.D. PERCEPTION OF SPATIAL LAYOUT
Miduturu Srinivas, Ph.D. GATING AND PHARMACOLOGY OF LENS GAP JUNCTION CHANNELS
Qasim Zaidi, Ph.D. COLOR PERCEPTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE PERCEPTION |
