University of Rochester Eye Institute

Krystel Huxlin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Neurobiology and Anotomy
Center for Visual Science
Brain & Cognitive Science

Ph.D. (1994) University of Sydney, Australia B.Sc.Med (1991) University of Sydney, Australia Contact Information: Contact Information: E-Mail: huxlin@cvs.rochester.edu University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 314 Rochester, New York 14642 Phone: (585) 275-5495 Fax: (585) 473-3411

 

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Teaching and Courses

Courses

• Integrative and Systems Neuroscience graduate course (ANA/NSC 531) - co-director with Tatiana Pasternak
  
• Cellular and Anatomical Neuroscience graduate course (NSC 512)
  
• Neural Plasticity in Learning and Development (BCS 508)
  
• Neuroscience Graduate Student Seminar Series (NSC 503/4)
  
• Neuroscience Graduate Student Journal Club (NSC 592)
  
• Histology component of the Human Structure and Function Course (HSF 110)
  
• Process of Discovery (YFS 400)
  
• Undergraduate Cognition (BCS 153)

Undergraduate Advisor

• Undergraduate Independent study - Research in Neuroscience (NSC 395): Jason Lyons (1998), Micki Flynn (1999), Tracy Price (2000-2001), Emily Brandon (2000-2004), Jennifer Williams (2002-2004), Katherine O'Brien (2003), Jane Tam (2004), Ferhina Ali (2005-2006).
  
• CVS Summer Undergraduate Fellowship: Sarah Funderburk (2002), Hanguyl Chung (2004), Karen Chan (2004), Alexander Townsend (2004), Amit Sangave (2005), Victoria Nutsch (2006).
  
• McNair Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program: Meng Lu (2003).
  
• GEBS Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program: Sarah Artrip (2006).
  
• Undergraduate Honors thesis advisor/committee member
            2005 - Stacey Poloskey (thesis committee member)
            2006 – Ferhina Ali (thesis advisor)

Graduate Advisor

• 2007:           Meghan Riley (PhD thesis advisor)
                       Anasuya Das (PhD rotation advisor)
  
• 2006:           Meghan Riley (PhD thesis advisor)
                       Krista Gigone (Brain and Cognitive Sciences Graduate Program – PhD thesis advisor)
  
• 2005:           Ryan Bisbey (3rd year medical student at the University of Rochester doing an elective                      research rotation (RES 950) in my laboratory, "Characterizing natural visual behavior in                      hemianopic patients after stroke – effect of visual retraining")
• 2004:           Karthik Venkatesh (PhD Reading Course advisor, Part 1 committee member)
                       Sarah Bliss (PhD rotation advisor)
• 2003:          Jorge-Christian Kirr (5th year German medical student on a 4 months research fellowsh                      in my laboratory, " Comparison of higher order optical aberrations induced by hyperopic                      and myopic PRK corrections in a cat animal model")
                       Brad Feldman (3rd year medical student at the University of Rochester doing an elective                      research rotation (RES 950) in my laboratory, "Evaluating compensatory behaviors and                      visual performance after cortical strokes in humans")

Graduate thesis committee member:

• 2008:           Shawn Green (PhD thesis committee member)
                       Jelena Jovancevic (PhD thesis committee member)
• 2007:           Jelena Jovancevic (PhD thesis committee member)
• 2006:           Onanong Chivatakarn (PhD thesis committee member)Kyunwha Lee (PhD thesis                       committee member)
• 2004:           Pushkar Joshi (PhD Part 1 committee member)
• 2003:           Julie Heinrich (Ph.D. thesis committee member)
                        Luisa Scott (Ph.D. thesis committee member)

Post-doctoral fellow advisor

• 2006-present:      Tim Martin, Ph.D.
• 2005-2007:           Jens Bühren, M.D.