Research pioneered by
![Andreas Burkhalter, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/Burkhalter-Andreas_DSC0961-1-280x386-1.jpg)
Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: burkhala@nospam.wustl.edu
Anatomical, physiological and optogenetic study of the visual cortex
Burkhalter Lab
![Tom Franken, MD, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/02/Tom-Franken-280x386-1-280x386-1.jpg)
Tom Franken, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: ftom@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding how the primate brain processes sensory information to perceive the world as an organized collection of objects
![Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/05/goodhill-cropped-280x386-1.jpg)
Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
- Email: g.goodhill@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding the computational principles that underlie brain development, using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches
![Helen McNeill, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/McNeill-Helen_DevBio_01-1qorarz-280x386-1.jpg)
Helen McNeill, PhD
Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor of Developmental Biology
- Email: mcneillh@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding how tissue growth and tissue organization are coordinately regulated during normal development, and how loss of this control leads to human disease
![Josh Morgan, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/joshm2b-280x386-1.jpg)
Josh Morgan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: jlmorgan@nospam.wustl.edu
Using advanced cellular imaging techniques to investigate how neurons organize themselves into image processing circuits
![Keith Hengen, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/Hengen-Keith-280x386.jpg)
Keith Hengen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
- Email: khengen@nospam.wustl.edu
We take a “big data” approach to understanding the self-organization of neurons and networks in behaving animals
![Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/MicrosoftTeams-image-5-280x386.jpg)
Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD
Janet & Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Visual system neuroscience and vision restoration
Kerschensteiner Lab
![Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/Snyder_Lawrence_profile-280x386-1.jpg)
Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Information processing in the cerebral cortex
![Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD](https://sites.wustl.edu/visionscience/files/2023/01/Face-photo-1024x1024-1-280x386.jpg)
Takeshi Yoshimatsu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Email: takeshi@nospam.wustl.edu
Understanding the molecular and cellular basis of the functional development and regeneration of the vertebrate visual system and elucidating how disruption of these mechanisms leads to visual dysfunction