Faculty laboratory and research group pages for Vision Science and Optometry at the University of Waterloo's School of Optometry and Vision Science.
Dr. Vivian Choh's lab
- 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's lab
Vision & Motor Performance Lab
- Sports related concussion and vision rehabilitation
- Paralympic classification for athletes with vision impairment
- Understanding how vision is involved in sports performance
- Development of a novel test of vision function to assess vision for sports performance
- Clinical aspects of optometric practices including vision training to enhance athletic performance and vision rehabilitation
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
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Dr. Natalie Hutching's lab
- Imaging
- Optics
- Aberrations
- Spectacle lens design
Dr. Elizabeth Irving's lab
- Telehealth
- Vision Rehabilitation
- Neuroscience
- Ocular Biology
- Optical Devices
- Vision Services
- Epidemiology and Digital Health
- Bionanotechnolgy and Biosensors
Dr. Lyndon Jones
Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE)
- Clinical trial design
- Contact lens performance
- Ocular biomaterials
- Clinical Imaging
- Ocular Biology
- Optical Devices
- Vision Services
- Technology and Optics
- Smart Materials
- Biomaterials, Polymers and Bioplastics
- Thernostic Materials
- Bionanotechnology and Biosensors
- Next Generation Energy Systems
- Nanomaterials
- Smart and Functional Materials
- Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery
Dr. Susan Leat’s lab
- Low vision and vision rehabilitation
- Paediatric optometry and visual development
- Aging and vision
- Visual psychophysics
- Accommodation in children with Down syndrome
Dr. Paul Murphy's lab
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's lab
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
- Clinical Imaging
- Vision Rehabilitation
- Ocular Biology
- Vision Services
Dr. Jacob Sivak's lab
- Phylogeny and ontogeny of the eye
- Refractive development of the eye
- Ocular toxicology
- Cataract
Dr. Ben Thompson's lab
The Human Visual Neuroscience (HVN) 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