Research Faculty Qualified to Supervise Ph.D. Graduate Students
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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, etc.
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