Visual Neuroscience
Visual Neuroscience is a research area in which you can focus your studies within our PhD programme in Vision Sciences.
Distinctive features
- International centre of excellence
- Laboratory suites equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for cell and organ culture, histology, neuroscience, protein analysis, molecular biology, gene transfection, molecular genetics, absorption/emission spectroscopy, and microscopic imaging
- Has made a number of novel discoveries in the context of this theme:
- Identification of the gene responsible for the major form of optic atrophy
- Lipofuscin is a photoinducible free radical generator that causes cell dysfunction
- Matrix metalloproteinases are upregulated in the development of myopia in mammals and identification of a new member of the MMP family
- Damage to the centrifugal visual system alters eye development and its retractive state, suggesting that the brain influences emmetropisation
- Developed innovative experimental or genetic models for studying corneal transplantation, ocular development, glaucoma and optic atrophy, neural tracing, oxidative damage to the retina and a variety of eye diseases
- Supported by grants from the MRC, BBSRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR/NISCHR, EU, Medical Charities, Health Service and the private sector
Contacts
Administrative contact(s)
Tony Redmond
Research themes
- Genetic models of eye disease
- Understanding and preventing corneal dystrophies
- Gene transfer
- Structure of the optic nerve head in the healthy and glaucomatous eye
- Pupillary, accommodative and eye movement disorders
- Impact of neural plasticity on eye disease
- Ageing and cell dysfunction
- Oxidative damage and retinal dysfunction
- Stem cell biology
- Light damage to the eye
- Mechanisms and prevention of neural cell death
Funding
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Tuition fees
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Students from the rest of the world (international)
Programme information
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