Basic Science Research
Many faculty members are involved in research projects. Their lists are online at:
http://ophthalmology.stanford.edu/faculty/
Basic research laboratories at Stanford in the visual sciences include:
- Biomedical Physics and Ophthalmic Technologies Group, led by Dr. Daniel Palanker. Current projects include:
1) Pulsed Electron Avalanche Knife: Precise and cost-effective tractionless cutting, ablating and tissue manipulating tool for microsurgery in liquid media.
2) Artificial Sight: Optoelectronic system for restoration of sight in blind patients suffering from degenerative retinal diseases.
3) Laser-Tissue Interactions: Study of the effects of pulsed hyperthermia on ocular tissues and development of selective and minimally-traumatic ocular laser therapies. Study of dynamics of multiphoton interactions and their applications to laser surgery.
4) Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy (CARS):
Imaging of biological cells utilizing their intrinsic vibrational molecular contrast in a non-scanning wide-field CARS approach. - Artificial Cornea Project, led by Drs. Christopher Ta and Jaan Noolandi
- Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Neuro-Ophthalmology Lab led by Joyce Liao
- Steven Baccus Lab at Stanford in Neurobiology studying visual processing
- Russell Fernald Lab in Neurobiology studying retinal progenitor cell division and differentiation control in fish.
- Newsome Lab in Neurobiology studying visual perception
- Lubert Stryer Lab in Neurobiology studying the molecular mechanism of signal transduction
- Tirin Moore Lab in Neurobiology studying visual-motor integration
- Denis Baylor Lab in Neurobiology studying visual transduction
- Ben Barres Lab in Neurobiology studying glia
- Vision and Perception Neuroscience lab led by Kalanit Grill-Spector at Stanford in Psychology studying high level visual perception
- Vision Imaging Sciences and Technology (VISTA) lab led by Brian Wandell, Stanford Psychology studying vision and computation neuroscience
