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Christine Wildsoet
PhD, Dip Appl Sc (Optom), BSc (Hons), FAAO, Associate Professor in Optometry & Vision Science
Email: wildsoet@uclink.berkeley.edu

Recent Presentations

Papers
XIII International Congress of Eye Research, Paris, France, July 1998 (Invited paper).
Choroidal influences on refractive development - a novel role for the choroid.

VII International conference on myopia, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1998 (Invited paper).
Influence of controlled viewing conditions on emmetropization to imposed defocus in the chick.

School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, September 22, 1998: Myopia and eye growth regulation - some new insights from chick.

Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, September 24, 1998: Refractive development and eye growth regulation - some new insights from the chick.

Autonomic Innervation and Microcirculation in the Eye - Implications for Glaucoma Physiology, Erlangen, Germany, February, 1999 (Invited paper): A choroidal focusing mechanism - what has been learnt from the chick?

School of Optometry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, March 29, 1999: Emmetropization, accommodation, and myopia: What can the chick model tell us about their association? Association for Vision
Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida,

May, 2000: Competing defocus stimuli of opposite sign produce opposite effects in eyes with intact and sectioned optic nerves in the chick.

99 Tagung der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, September, 2001: The causes of high refractive errors in infants – Insights from albinos.

Annual Meeting Optical Society America/ILS-XVII Conference, Long Beach, September 2001: Control of emmetropization – Is the brain required?

Norvartis-sponsored Myopia workshop, Berne, Switzerland, October 2001: Ocular growth regulation and myopia.
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Zurich, July, 2001: Ocular growth regulation and myopia – Some lessons from animal studies.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May, 2002: The effect of albinism in emmetropization. A study using chickens as an animal model for human albinism.

9th International Conference on Myopia, Hong Kong – Guangzhou, November, 2002 (invited): Pharmacological aspects of myopia.

Fudon University Hospital Shanghai, Nov 15, 2002; Peking Union Hospital, Beijing, Nov 20, 2002: Recent insights from animal myopia research.

Posters
Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 1998. Wildsoet CF, Wallman J: Brief periods of lens wear induce compensation even when sharp vision is precluded.

XIII International Congress of Eye Research, Paris, July 1998. Nickla DL, Wildsoet CF, Troilo D: Diurnal rhythms in ocular dimensions in a primate model of eye growth.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Sarasota,
Florida, May 1999. Schmid KL, Wildsoet CF: The inhibitory effects of apomorphine and atropine on form-deprivation myopia are not additive in chick.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Sarasota,
Florida, May 1999. Wildsoet CF, Schmid KL: Emmetropization and the Mandelbaum effect in chicks.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Sarasota,
Florida, May 1999. Nickla DL, Wildsoet CF, Troilo D: Nitric oxide may mediate the compensatory choroidal expansion seen in response to experimentally-induced myopia in chicks.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Sarasota,
Florida, May 1999. Nau AC, Wildsoet CF, Troilo D: Hyperopic defocus from spectacle lenses alters the pattern of accommodation behavior in chicks.

American Academy of Optometry, Seattle, December 1999. Nau A, Wildsoet CF: Upper tear meniscus height as an alternative index of tear volume, assessed using lissamine green.

American Academy of Optometry, Seattle, December 1999. Schurmann A, Kennedy R, Wildsoet CF: Continuous light rearing ("night lights") impairs emmetropization in
young chicks.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2000. Nickla DL, Wildsoet CF, Troilo D: The diurnal rhythm in intraocular pressure in the common marmoset.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2000. Coletta NJ, Marcos S, Wildsoet CF, Troilo D, Burns SA: Optical quality of the chick eye.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology: Annual meeting, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2001. Wildsoet CF: Chick eyes with sectioned optic nerves show abnormal emmetropization to myopic defocus with delayed lens treatment.

American Academy of Optometry, Philadelphia, December 2001. Blackie CA, Aizenman MS, Tsu AP, Wildsoet CF: The relationship between pupil size, accommodation and cognitive demand measured under binocular viewing conditions.

American Academy of Optometry, Philadelphia, December 2001. Wong M, Yi M, Wildsoet CF: Negative lens-induced myopia and form deprivation myopia involve different mechanisms: New evidence from the chick using an exchange paradigm.

American Academy of Optometry, Philadelphia, 2001. Wildsoet CF, Blackie CA, Xie CM, Payne WS: Albino chickens – An appropriate refractive error model for human albinism?

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, 2002. Diether S, Wildsoet CF:
Stimulus requirements for the decoding of myopic and hyperopic defocus in chickens.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, 2002. Choh V, Wildsoet CF: Effects of interchanging diffusers and negative lenses on optic nerve–sectioned chicken eyes.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, 2002. Rymer J, Wildsoet, CF, Miller S: Epinephrine decreases cytosolic calcium in chick retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

Fall Vision Meeting, San Francisco, October 2002. Yew K, Chan SN, Wildsoet CF: Negative 30D lens behaves like occluders in inducing myopia in young chicks.

Fall Vision Meeting, San Francisco, October, 2002: Tran N, Kuo K, Wildsoet CF.
The interacting effects of form-deprivation and myopic defocus imposed locally on the central and peripheral retina in chick eyes.

9th International Conference on Myopia, Hong Kong – Guangzhou, November 2002. Choh V, Wildsoet CF: Time course of axial changes to ocular components of optic nerve-sectioned chick eyes.

9th International Conference on Myopia, Hong Kong – Guangzhou, November 2002. Yew K, Wildsoet CF: A re-examination of the effects of accommodation and retinal image quality on compensation to negative lenses in the chick.

9th International Conference on Myopia, Hong Kong – Guangzhou, November 2002. Gilmartin B, Logan NS, Wildsoet CF. Posterior retinal contours in Taiwanese Chinese and Caucasian anisomyopes.

4th International Congress of Wavefront Sensing and Aberration-free Refractive Correction. March 2003. Wildsoet C, Kuo, K): Ocular aberrations increase with eye growth and myopia – Evidenced from chicks.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2003. Yew KL, Wildsoet CF:. The usual effects of high-power negative lens and diffusers show differential susceptibility to disruption to the diurnal light cycle.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2003. Diether S, Wildsoet CF: Compensation for myopic defocus under competing defocus conditions has spatial frequency and accommodation prerequisites.

Association for Vision Research and Ophthalmology, Forte Lauderdale, Florida, May 2003. Choh V, Yi M, Wildsoet CF: Effects of interchanging form-deprivation and incremental hyperopic defocus stimuli on normal and optic nerve-sectioned chick eyes.

 
 

 
 
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