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Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Deadline is June 15, 2024
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Our mission is to create a unique environment for research on human vision to increase the understanding of normal vision in support of vision disorders, clinical research to develop new diagnostic procedures and treatments for visual and other sensory disorders, and engineering research to produce better techniques for aid and rehabilitation of the blind and partially sighted.
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SKERI's Functional Vision and Accessibility Conference Addresses Cutting-Edge Research and Innovation
As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute successfully hosted the Functional…
San Francisco Mayor Proclaims August 3rd, 2023 Smith Kettlewell's Day
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is proud to announce that August 3rd, 2023, has been officially proclaimed Smith…
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SKERI Scientists Join the IGNITE STEM Fair at Burton High School
On April 18, 2024 SKERI scientists enjoyed the beautiful Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School campus while offering its students hands-on, experiential, and interactive examples of SKERI's scientists' work.
SKERI Researchers Bring their Rehabilitation and Accessibility Vision to CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
Smith-Kettlewell’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Blindness and Low Vision, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), supports eight projects related to visual impairmen
SKERI Postdoc Haydée García-Lázaro receives the Elsevier Vision Research Travel Award
Congratulations to Haydée García-Lázaro for receiving the Elsevier Vision Research Travel Award to attend the VSS Conference.
SKERI Scientist Leads Art/Science Symposium at IS&T
On January 22, 2024 Dr. Lora Likova chaired an interdisciplinary art/science symposium at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) meeting in Burlingame, CA.
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Temporal instabilities in the human eye's auto-focus mechanism: characteristics, source and impact on vision
Our eyes are never at rest. Between the microsaccadic eye movements and microfluctuations of the eye's autofocus mechanism (ocular accommodation), our visual system constantly encounters time-varying information even during a supposed "Steady state" fixation epoch. This talk will focus on the temporal instability of the eye's accommodation, as observed under physiological conditions and in a…