People Type: Leadership Committee

Blodi, MD, Barbara A.

Biography Keywords: Retinal imaging, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy Education BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA MALD, Fletcher School of Law at Tufts and Harvard University, Boston, MA MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Internship, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ Residency, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL Medical Retina Fellowship, Bascom Palmer Eye …

Eliceiri, PhD, Kevin

Biography Keywords: Cellular microenvironment, cancer imaging, multiscale imaging, imaging instrumentation, biophotonics, image informatics, image analysis, and software development Education BS 1996, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin–Madison MS 1998, Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Wisconsin–Madison Post-graduate training, 1998-2000, National Integrated Microscopy Resource, Madison, WI PhD 2015, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Interests Dr. Eliceiri’s research interests …

Gamm, MD, PhD, David

Biography Keywords: Stem cells, retina, inherited retinal degenerations (including retinitis pigmentosa), macular degenerations (including AMD), and retinal disease modeling and treatment Education BS 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI MD 1998, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI PhD 1998, Neurosciences, University of Michigan School of Graduate Studies, Ann Arbor, MI Ophthalmology Residency, …

Ikeda, DVM, PhD, Akihiro

Biography Education PhD 1997, University of Tokyo (Physiology) Postdoctoral Fellowship 1997-2003, The Jackson Laboratory Research Interests For age-dependent diseases to manifest themselves in an age-dependent manner, there must be tight association between the disease-causing mechanisms and cellular changes that occur with aging. Therefore, it is important to understand how the aging process is regulated at …

McLellan, BVMS, PhD, DECVO, DACVO, FARVO, Gillian

Biography Keywords: Glaucoma, ocular imaging, ocular pharmacology and toxicology Education Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery 1990, University of Glasgow Veterinary School Certificate in Veterinary Ophthalmology 1993, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons PhD 2000, Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, University of London Diploma in Veterinary Ophthalmology 2001, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Diplomate European College of …

Pattnaik, PhD, MPhil, Bikash

Biography Keywords: Retinal disease, cellular signaling pathways, ion channels Education BSc, 1987, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India MSc, 1989, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India PhD, 1997, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Research Interests Dr. Pattnaik’s lab focuses on cellular communications that are key to life and disease. They discovered a novel cellular signaling pathway between cone photoreceptors …

Ponto, PhD, Kevin

Biography Education BS 2004, Computer Engineering, UW–Madison, Madison, WI MS 2006, Arts Computation Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA PhD 2010, Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, CA Postdoc, Computer Science, UW–Madison, Madison, WI Research Kevin Ponto’s research is in the field of virtual reality, which enables the controlled study of environmental features. One …

Rosenberg, PhD, Ari

Biography Education BA 2004, Liberal Arts and Sciences with an Honors Concentration in Cognitive Science, Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University PhD 2009, Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago Research Interests An overarching goal of Dr. Rosenberg’s research program is to elucidate the neural circuits and computations creating three-dimensional (3D) visual representations of the environment …

Schloss, PhD, Karen

Biography Keywords: Information visualization, visual cognition, and aesthetic response, virtual reality, visual communication, color EDUCATION BA 2005, Major in Psycology and Minor in Architecture, Barnard College, Columbia University PhD 2011, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Scholar 2013, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley RESEARCH Dr. Karen Schloss leads the Visual Reasoning Lab, which studies how …

Velten, PhD, Andreas

Biography Keywords: Computational optics, optical engineering, optical imaging Education: Vordiplom 2002, Physics, University of Wuerzburg, Germany MS 2008, Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM PhD 2009, Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Postdoc 2010-2012, Computational Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Research Interests: Andreas Velten is building a research program in computational …