Jose-Manuel Alonso
Professor, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Alonso did his M.D., Ph.D. at the University of Santiago and University Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. Further, he joined the laboratory of Torsten Wiesel at The Rockefeller University, initially as a postdoctoral student and later as a research associate. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Optometry and guest researcher at the University of Connecticut. He is interested in understanding the function of the thalamo-cortical and intra-cortical circuitry of the visual system.

e-mail: jalonso@sunyopt.edu                                                                         C.V.

Chong Weng
B.S.,University of Science and Technology of China

Graduate student at SUNY Optometry

Chong Weng did her undergraduate studies in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. She then went on to receive her BS degree in Biology at the same University. Her current work focuses on the spatial and temporal properties of neurons in visual thalamus.

e-mail: cweng@sunyopt.edu

Yao Chen

Postdoctoral student at SUNY Optometry

Dr. Chen obtained a B.S. in biology from Beijing University of China and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He continued his research as postdoctoral student, first at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and then at SUNY College of Optometry. His main interest is to understand the neuronal mechanisms of visual processing in the brain. Currently, he is studying the neuronal mechanisms underlying visual attention and task difficulty within the primary visual cortex.

e-mail: ychen1@sunyopt.edu                                                                      C.V.

Jianzhong Jin

Postdoctoral student at SUNY Optometry

e-mail: jjin@sunyopt.edu                                                                      C.V.

Yushi Wang

Graduate student at SUNY Optometry

e-mail:yushiwang@sunyopt.edu

Yushi Wang received her bachelor degree from Chongqing Medical University and master degree from West China Medical School Sichuan University. Her current main interest is to understand the organization of topographic maps in visual cortex.

Sanjiv Anand, M.D.

Graduate student at SUNY Optometry

e-mail: sanand@sunyopt.edu