Faculty laboratory and research group pages for Vision Science and Optometry at uWaterloo's School of Optometry and Vision Science:
Dr. William Bobier's Lab
- Photorefractive instrumentation
- Pre-school vision screening, ocular focus measures in pre-school children
- Studies of refractive error, ocular focus and alignment
- Vision and literacy studies
Dr. Vivian Choh
- Optics and function of crystalline lens during accommodation
- Dynamics of cellular changes to the lens during accommodation
- Molecular and cellular factors mediating refractive error development
- Molecular and cellular factors mediating retinal ganglion cell death
- Development of neuroprotective strategies following retinal ganglion cell death
Dr. Kristine Dalton
- Sports Vision
Dr. Chris Hudson’s Lab
- Non-invasive psychophysical, imaging and blood flow assessment of the eye
- Retinal vascular reactivity in patients with diabetes and glaucoma
- Spectral domain optical coherence tomography in neurodegenerative disease
Dr. Natalie Hutching's Lab
- Imaging
- Online learning
- Progressive addition lenses
Dr. Elizabeth Irving's Lab
- Ocular development research
- Oculomotor research
Dr. Lyndon Jones, Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE)
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Anterior segment ocular research and education.
Dr. Susan Leat’s Lab
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Low vision rehabilitation
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Pediatric optometry and visual development
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Vision and visual assessment in people with developmental disabilities
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Geriatrics (falls, mobility and vision)
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Visual psychophysics
Dr. Paul Murphy,
Murphy Laboratory for Experimental Optometry
- Ocular surface sensation
- Tear film dynamics and dry eye
- Ocular surface shape
- Contact lens wear complications
- Optometric instrumentation
Dr. Trefford Simpson, Soft Metrology Lab
- Soft metrology
- Psychophysical measurement of ocular surface pain and thermal sensing
- Scaling symptoms and visual function
- Ocular surface imaging (particularly OCT)
- Ocular surface structure and function
- Binocular vision (particularly inhibitory interactions)
Dr. Jacob Sivak's Lab
- Phylogeny and ontogeny of the eye
- Refractive development of the eye
- Ocular toxicology
- Cataract
Dr. Ben Thompson's Lab
- Development and plasticity of the human visual cortex. Techniques used within the lab include:
- Psychophysics, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
Dr . Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan's Lab
Theoretical and Experimental Epistemology Laboratory (TEEL)
- This multi-disciplinary laboratory works on various areas of interest:
- vision science
- retinal image processing and machine learning
- optical physics and applied optics
- history of science
