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John S. Werner
Born
John Simon Werner

1951 (age 72–73)
Humphrey, Nebraska
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Kansas (BA, MA) Brown University (PhD)
OccupationHuman Vision Researcher

John S. Werner is an American scientist who studies human vision and its changes across the life span. He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, and Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior.[1] His work has been cited ~ 17,000 times.[2]

Education[edit]

John Werner graduated in 1974 from the University of Kansas with BA (with highest distinction) and MA degrees. He received his doctoral degree in 1979 from Brown University. His research was supervised by Billy Rex Wooten and Lewis P. Lipsitt. With support from a NATO-NSF fellowship, he conducted postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Jan Walraven at the Institute for Perception in Soesterberg, The Netherlands.[3] Later, he received a DAAD fellowship to work with Lothar Spillmann in the Department of Neurology at the University of Freiburg.

Research[edit]

His research is concerned with the transformations of signals, quantified psychophysically,[4] from photoreceptors to postreceptoral processes, and color appearance.[5] This work demonstrates changes in sensitivity of all three cone pathways from infancy[6] to old age.[7] His laboratory has also developed methods for imaging the living human retina in three dimensions,[8] studies of diseases of the retina[9] and for quantifying vasculature of the retina and choroid.[10] He has made important discoveries that despite large changes in early stages of processing over the life span, color appearance is relatively stable, implying mechanisms of compensation, presumed to occur in cortex.[11][12]

Teaching[edit]

John Werner has taught a variety of courses from introductory psychology to more advanced courses for undergraduates, graduate students and medical residents. He has mentored PhD students at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of California, Davis, who now hold tenured positions in Asia, Europe, and North America. Werner has been a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg, University of Potsdam, University of Regensburg and University College London. 

Werner has co-edited books that are widely used in graduate courses, including Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological Foundations,[13] Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines[14] and The Visual Neurosciences.[15][16] The latter has been translated to Mandarin.[16]

Awards & honors[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "John S. Werner | College of Biological Sciences". biology.ucdavis.edu. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  2. ^ "John S. Werner - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  3. ^ "UC Davis' John S. Werner wins 2015 Verriest Medal from International Colour Vision Society". News-Medical.net. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  4. ^ Shinomori, Keizo; Werner, John S. (2012-08-14). "Aging of human short-wave cone pathways". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (33): 13422–13427. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10913422S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1119770109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3421157. PMID 22847416.
  5. ^ Hardy, Joseph L.; Frederick, Christina M.; Kay, Paul; Werner, John S. (April 2005). "Color Naming, Lens Aging, and Grue". Psychological Science. 16 (4): 321–327. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01534.x. ISSN 0956-7976. PMC 2586906. PMID 15828980.
  6. ^ Bieber, M. L.; Knoblauch, K.; Werner, J. S. (June 1998). "M- and L-cones in early infancy: II. Action spectra at 8 weeks of age". Vision Research. 38 (12): 1765–1773. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00384-2. ISSN 0042-6989. PMID 9797955.
  7. ^ Werner, John S.; Bieber, Michelle L.; Schefrin, Brooke E. (November 2000). "Senescence of foveal and parafoveal cone sensitivities and their relations to macular pigment density". Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 17 (11): 1918–1932. Bibcode:2000JOSAA..17.1918W. doi:10.1364/JOSAA.17.001918. ISSN 1084-7529. PMC 2560986. PMID 11059586.
  8. ^ Zawadzki, Robert J.; Jones, Steven M.; Olivier, Scot S.; Zhao, Mingtao; Bower, Bradley A.; Izatt, Joseph A.; Choi, Stacey; Laut, Sophie; Werner, John S. (2005-10-17). "Adaptive-optics optical coherence tomography for high-resolution and high-speed 3D retinal in vivo imaging". Optics Express. 13 (21): 8532–8546. Bibcode:2005OExpr..13.8532Z. doi:10.1364/OPEX.13.008532. ISSN 1094-4087. PMC 2605068. PMID 19096728.
  9. ^ Werner, J S; Keltner, J L; Zawadzki, R J; Choi, S S (March 2011). "Outer retinal abnormalities associated with inner retinal pathology in nonglaucomatous and glaucomatous optic neuropathies". Eye. 25 (3): 279–289. doi:10.1038/eye.2010.218. ISSN 0950-222X. PMC 3071640. PMID 21293495.
  10. ^ Kim, Dae Yu; Fingler, Jeff; Zawadzki, Robert J.; Park, Susanna S.; Morse, Lawrence S.; Schwartz, Daniel M.; Fraser, Scott E.; Werner, John S. (2013-08-27). "Optical imaging of the chorioretinal vasculature in the living human eye". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110 (35): 14354–14359. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11014354K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1307315110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3761584. PMID 23918361.
  11. ^ Werner, John S (1996-01-01). "Visual problems of the retina during ageing: Compensation mechanisms and colour constancy across the life span". Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 15 (2): 621–645. doi:10.1016/1350-9462(96)00001-8. ISSN 1350-9462. S2CID 54382620.
  12. ^ Delahunt, Peter B.; Webster, Michael A.; Ma, Lei; Werner, John S. (2004). "Long-term renormalization of chromatic mechanisms following cataract surgery". Visual Neuroscience. 21 (3): 301–307. doi:10.1017/S0952523804213025. ISSN 0952-5238. PMC 2633455. PMID 15518204.
  13. ^ Visual perception : the neurophysiological foundations. Spillmann, Lothar., Werner, John Simon. San Diego: Academic Press. 1990. ISBN 9780323138147. OCLC 838102279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Color vision : perspectives from different disciplines. Backhaus, Werner., Kliegl, Reinhold, 1953-, Werner, John Simon. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1998. ISBN 9783110806984. OCLC 811372514.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ The visual neurosciences. Chalupa, Leo M., Werner, John Simon. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2004. ISBN 9780262033084. OCLC 65189673.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ^ a b The new visual neurosciences. Werner, John Simon,, Chalupa, Leo M. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780262317900. OCLC 868974449.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ^ "Garland W. Clay Award". www.aaopt.org. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  18. ^ "Humboldt Research Award". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  19. ^ "Past Recipients". Research & Innovation Office. 2013-03-19. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  20. ^ Marketing, UC Davis Health, Public Affairs and. "WINNER OF PRESTIGIOUS PROFESSORSHIP JOINS UC DAVIS OPHTHALMOLOGY FACULTY". www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "Lighthouse Guild | Pisart Award in Vision Science Recipients". Lighthouse Guild. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  22. ^ "2013 OSA Vision Meeting". www.osavisionmeeting.org. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  23. ^ "UC Davis' John S. Werner wins 2015 Verriest Medal from International Colour Vision Society". News-Medical.net. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  24. ^ "Newton Medal and Stiules Lectures, 2016". www.colour.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  25. ^ "Colour Transformations – in the Eye, on the Canvas, across the Life Span | City, University of London". www.city.ac.uk. 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
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