People Type: Trainee

Biography Advisor:  Ari Rosenberg, PhD Keywords: Visual perception, 3D motion, Visual motion processing, Electrical microsimulation, Causal Manipulation, Non-human primates, Neurophysiology. Education BS in Neuroscience, University of Rochester PhD candidate in Neuroscience, University of Madison-Wisconsin Research I’m interested by the process through which our visual system leads to our visual perception. We study this is by …

Biography Advisor: Bikash Pattnaik, PhD Research My research focus is on one of the least studied potassium channels in the retina, named KCNQ voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv7), which is mostly studied in the brain in the context of therapeutic targets to treat epilepsy Anti-epileptic drugs targeting KCNQ channels in the brain also have been reported …

Biography Keywords: Perception, visual perception, perceptual learning, transfer of perceptual thinking Advisor: Shawn Green Education BS 2024, Integrative Neuroscience, Binghamton University, State University of New York Research I study learning, including visual perceptual learning. I am curious about what individual differences determine who transfers their learning better, whether there are different styles or patterns of …

Biography Keywords: Data visualization, visual perception, subset selection, clutter reduction, summarization Advisor: Michael Gleicher Education BS 2020, Computer Science, University of California, Davis Research Connor’s research develops computational methods to better understand how people perceive and interpret visual representations of large and complex datasets, with a focus on data subset selection and data summarization. His goal …

Biography Advisor: Michelle Ciucci, PhD, CCC-SLP Co-Sponsor: Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD, DECVO, DACVO, MRCVS Keywords: Parkinson disease, retina, neurodegeneration, biomarkers Education BS 2008, (1) Neurobiology, (2) Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI MD 2014, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX PGY-1, 2015, Internal Medicine, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, …

Biography Advisor: David Gamm, MD, PhD Keywords: Retinal biology, energy metabolism, biochemistry, protein-based therapeutics, targeted protein degradation, gene therapy. Education BS in Biochemistry, University of Madison-Wisconsin PhD in Biochemistry, University of Washington Research Dr. Bisbach is interested in using human stem cells to model retinal degenerative diseases. She is using retinal organoid models to study …

Biography Keywords: Single-photon imaging, scintillation event imaging, radiation imaging, inverse problem, low light Education BS 2018, Electrical Engineering, John Hopkins University MS 2019, Electrical and Computer Engineering, John Hopkins University PhD 2026, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research My research explores computational imaging methods for radiation imaging. I am developing new algorithms and hardware designs …

Biography Keywords: Retina, imaging, age-related macular degeneration Advisor: Amitha Domalpally Education BS 2018, Neurobiology, Spanish, UW–Madison DO 2025, Medicine, Des Moines University Research My vision research focuses on retinal imaging, clinical trial endpoints, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve the measurement of geographic atrophy. At the Wisconsin Reading Center and the A-EYE Research …

Biography Adviser: Raunak Sinha, PhD Keywords: night-vision, rod-pathway, rods, convergence, signal-processing, nonlinear-filtering, absolute-threshold Education B.S., magna cum laude with honors, Physics & Mathematics, Youngstown State University Ph.D. Student, Biophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Research My thesis research focuses signal processing in the retina, specifically on mechanisms that maximize signal-to-noise ratio of visual signals. I use …

Biography Education: BS 2018, Biology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO Research Interests: In the Sinha lab, Butala is focused on researching the differences in the cone phototransduction cascade between foveal and peripheral primate retina.  He has developed a broad interest in retinal morphology, circuitry and pathology.  His specific interest is in understanding how the phototransduction …