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Graduate Students in Vision Science
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Arian Ashourvan
Faculty Advisor: Port
Research Interests:  
Jonathon Bradley
Faculty Advisor: Viswanathan
Research Interests:   Age effects on dark adaptation times in rats as measured by ERG.
Minhua Chen
Faculty Advisor: Begley
Research Interests:   The correlation between blinks and tear film breakup.
Diana Christensen
Faculty Advisor: Begley
Research Interests:   Daily changes in vision and ocular surface symptoms: a comparison of Proclear and Acuvue Oasys; dry eye, aberrations over contact lenses and tear film.
Yuen Ping Toco Chui
Faculty Advisor: Burns
Research Interests:   Retinal sampling properties of the human eye.
Christopher Clark
Faculty Advisor: Soni
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Christina Gant
Faculty Advisor: Viswanathan
Research Interests:  
Weihui Gao
Faculty Advisor: Miller
Research Interests:   Application of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics (AO) in the human eye.
Kyle Gilbert
Faculty Advisor: Candy
Research Interests: ________
Kathryn Gray
Faculty Advisor: Candy
Research Interests:   Visual development in children.
Gary Huang
Faculty Advisor: ________
Research Interests:  Retinal imaging.
Supriya Jalimarada Shivakumar
Faculty Advisor: Bonanno
Research Interests:   Expression and function of NaBC1 in the corneal endothelium.
Ravi Jonnal
Faculty Advisor: Miller
Research Interests:  Functional imaging of human photoreceptors.
Tao Liu
Faculty Advisor: ________
Research Interests:  
Rongwen (Lou) Lu
Faculty Advisor: Elsner
Research Interests:  
Verleen McSween
Faculty Advisor: Viswanathan
Research Interests:   Creation of a glaucomatous rat model to better characterize changes that may occur under pathological conditions. Secondly, the continuous assessment of changes in the normal characteristics of retinal ganglion cell structure and function via fluorescence microscopy and electrophysiological recordings, respectively. Pressure changes over time will also be observed during disease progression.
Sylvia Mishoulam
Faculty Advisor: Candy
Research Interests:   Analysis of pediatric visual acuity charts.
Tracy Nguyen
Faculty Advisor: Bonanno
Research Interests:  Lactic acid across the corneal endothelium.
Charanya Ramachandran
Faculty Advisor: Srinivas
Research Interests:   Identifying the mechanisms leading to reduction in the aqueous humor outflow facility in the eye which ultimately leads to glaucoma. In specific, identifying how the contractility of the actin cytoskeleton of the trabecular meshwork cells (which line the outflow pathway) contributes to the reduction in outflow facility.
Sowmya Ravikumar
Faculty Advisor: Bradley/Thibos
Research Interests:   Visual impact of monochromatic and polychromatic optical aberrations.
Tawna Roberts
Faculty Advisor: ________
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Jason Shen
Faculty Advisor: Thibos
Research Interests:  
Mahesh Shivanna
Faculty Advisor: Srinivas
Research Interests:   Understand the biochemical mechanisms involved in the loss of barrier integrity of the corneal endothelium mediated by pro-inflammatory agents leading to stromal edema and to strategize therapeutic approaches to overcome the loss of barrier function of corneal endothelium.
Hongxin Song
Faculty Advisor: Burns
Research Interests:   Retinal imaging.
Danielle F. (Warren) Teel
Faculty Advisor: Thibos
Research Interests:  
Tony Van Alstine
Faculty Advisor: Viswanathan
Research Interests:   Retinal physiology, glaucoma, clinical electrodiagnostics.
Dean Van Nasdale
Faculty Advisor: Elsner
Research Interests:   Retinal imaging.
Xin Wei
Faculty Advisor: Thibos
Research Interests:   Peripheral vision.
Zi-Wei Wu
Faculty Advisor: Begley
Research Interests:  Clinical research relating to dry eye, tear film and patterns of blinking.
Zhangyi Zhong
Faculty Advisor: Burns
Research Interests:   SLO retinal imaging.

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