Edward N. Pugh's Lab

Research

Principal Investigator:

Edward N. Pugh, Jr., Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor of Ophthalmology

Education:

Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama B.A. (Mathematics) 1968.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A. (Mathematics) 1972..
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Ph.D. (Mathematical Psychology) 1974.

Research Interests:

• Photoreceptor physiology: mechanisms underlying the light responses of rod and cone photoreceptors
• Murine electroretinography: use as a non-invasive monitor of retinal function in normal and transgenic mice
• Polarization vision: biological mechanisms, behavioral psychophysics,and polarization-difference imaging
• Human visual evoked potentials: combined with psychophysics to investigate early cortical processes