John Simon Werner
Professor
jswerner (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Ophthalmology - Medicine
Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Office
UCDMC, ACC Room 2349
(916) 734-6817
Degrees:
1979
PhD
Brown University
Research Interests:
Neurophysiological computations and mechanisms that mediate human vision, particularly changes in vision across the life span and in diseases of the retina and optic nerve. Current studies use psychophysical and electrophysiological methods, together with high-resolution retinal imaging (adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography), to study both normal aging and age-related diseases leading to blindness.
http://vsri.ucdavis.edu/
Awards:
Humboldt-Preis - 1994
Jules & Doris Stein, RPB Professorship - 2000
National Institute on Aging, MERIT - 2001
Lighthouse International, Pisart Vision Award
Lighthouse International, Pisart Vision Award - 2008
Department and Center Affiliations:
Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior
Center for Neuroscience
Center for Visual Sciences
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
Optical Society of America (Fellow)
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Fellow)
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Neuroscience
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Biomedical Engineering,
Psychology
Publications:
Last updated 5/21/2010
Werner, J.S., Pinna, B. & Spillmann, L. (2007) The brain and the world of illusory color. Scientific American, 296 (3), 90-95.
Zawadzki, R.J., Cense, B., Zhang, Y., Choi, S.S., Miller, D.T. & Werner, J.S. (2008) Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography with monochromatic and chromatic aberration correction. Optics Express, 16, 8126-8143.
Shinomori, K. & Werner, J.S. (2008) The impulse response of S-cone pathways in detection of increments and decrements. Visual Neuroscience, 25, 341-347.
Elliott, S.L., Choi, S.S., Doble, N., Hardy, J.L., Evans, J.W. & Werner, J.S. (2009) Role of high-order aberrations in senescent changes in spatial vision. Journal of Vision, 9(2):24, 1-16.
Teaching Interests:
Visual psychophysics and neural foundations of visual perception, color and spatial vision, human development and aging.
Courses:
NPB90b/NPB164/NPB 261A,B,C / Psych 290 / NSC 261A Vision Science