John "Jack" Werner, Ph.D.

Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science and in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Werner studies the neurophysiological computations and mechanisms that mediate human vision, particularly changes in color and spatial vision across the life span. His work has demonstrated adaptive modifications of the visual system in response to changes in signals due to aging of the eye’s optics and retina. His laboratory has developed state-of-the art methods for imaging the human retina of the living eye at a cellular scale. Dr. Werner received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Brown University in 1979. He has received the Humboldt Prize for Senior Scientists in the Natural Sciences (Bonn Germany) and a Research to Prevent Blindness professorship.