People Type: Alumni

Biography Advisor:  Ari Rosenberg, PhD Keywords: 3D vision, receptive field, caudal intraparietal area, monkeys Research Joshua Bruce is interested in how the brain interprets time and space using 3D visual information to help become aware of its environment and self. His current work focuses on investigating how the brain’s visual system encodes 3D representation of …

Biography Advisor: Xin Huang

Biography Education: BA Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2016 Research Kore Chan was strongly engaged in vision research as an undergraduate, working with Dr. John Flannery at UC/Berkeley studying retinal degeneration in mouse models.  Post-veterinary school, he is joining Dr. Gillian McLellan’s lab to pursue a graduate degree in CBMS under her …

Biography Education BSc(P) 1957, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India MD 1961, King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India Internship, 1961-1962, King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India Residency, 1962-1965, Ophthalmology, King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India MS, 1964, Ophthalmology, King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India Teaching Fellowship, 1969-1972, Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Retina Fellowship, …

Biography Advisor: Dan Lipinski, PhD Keywords: Open angle glaucoma, gene therapy Education BS 2016, Biology, Marian University, Fond du lac, WI Research Kristina’s research revolves around the development of a gene therapy treatment for open angle glaucoma that functions to permanently lower intraocular pressure in a dose dependent manner. Under the mentorship of Dr. Lipinski, …

Biography Education Research Intern 2013-2015, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health BA 2013 Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Research Spencer Cleland’s research interests are in assessing geographic atrophy using optical coherence tomography, fund is autofluorescence, and color fungus photographs. Previously, he studied the genetic inheritance of neurodegenerative eye diseases using …

Biography Education PhD 2020, Experimental Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison BS 2014, Psychology, Pacific University Research Aaron is interested in the processes that support visuospatial cognition over development. He has worked on developing a research program that tracks how children and adults are able to control their attention (or not) in service of different behavioral tasks. …

Biography Education B.S. 1978, Medical Technology, Louisiana State University PhD 2003, Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Interests Dr. Cook is now retired; she had previously worked with Dr Neal Barney, researching several immunologic areas, including: (1) Determining if activated human conjunctival mast cells supply sufficient cytokines and other mediators to initiate …

Biography Education BA 1977, Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT PhD 1987, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA Research Karen Cruickshanks has more than 20 years of experience in the epidemiology of eye diseases as a co-investigator on the WESDR and BDES and as PI of two NEI-funded studies and the on-going Beaver Dam Offspring Study. …

Biography Education MD 1983, Northwestern University Internship, Waterbury Hospital Health Center, Waterbury, CT Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, Madison Fellowship, Research Pathology, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, Madison Retina Fellowship, Yale Eye Center, New Haven, CT Research and Clinical Interests Dr. Danis’s research interests include new treatments for age-related macular degeneration, diabetic …