Faculty of ScienceDepartment of Optometry & Vision Sciences

Visual Functions Laboratory

Research Team

National & International Collaborators

Laboratory Information

This laboratory has interests in visual development and the normal ageing process as well as the development of eye disease. We consider these issues with behavioural and electrophysiological methods.

The lab collaborates with the Ocular Physiology Lab and has close links to other laboratories within Melbourne University (Anatomy and Cell Biology and Ophthalmology) and at other institutes (Baker Heart Institute and Deakin University).

Our human and animal work has defined the effect that normal ageing and the ocular diseases, ARMD, diabetes and glaucoma, can have on vision. In particular we are interested in developing tests that can detect these processes early.

Students in the Visual Functions Laboratory learn computing skills, modelling methods, and electrophysiological and/or psychophysical methods. Collaborative projects provide a broad experience in anatomy, system physiology, neuroscience and/or ocular biochemistry. Those interested in visiting or joining the lab should contact Prof. Vingrys.

About Algis Vingrys

Algis is a graduate of Department of Optometry at The University of Melbourne. He completed his doctoral research in Melbourne and was appointed to his first post-doctoral position in the School of Optometry at the University of Auckland. This was followed by a joint post-doctoral appointment in the Schools of Optometry and Ophthalmology, at The Ohio State University, working with Professors P. Ewen King-Smith PhD and Susan Benes MD, before being appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Optometry at The University of Melbourne.

Selected Recent Publications

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