Yr Athro Jonathan Erichsen

Director of Postgraduate Research

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Research Interests

My primary research interest is achieving a better understanding of the interaction between sensory and motor mechanisms within the visual system. For example, the prevalence of myopia has increased dramatically in the general population, and a growing body of evidence strongly suggests that overaccommodation ('near-work' ) and/or accommodative dysfunction play a role in this increase. Therefore, over the years, one aspect of my work has been centred on defining and stimulating the central near response pathways, including vergence and the pupillary light reflex, in order to better understand the interrelationship between accommodation and refractive development of the eye.

In addition, I have more recently been pursuing other active areas of research interest, including studies of the effect of environmental influences, such as stress, on an oculomotor pathology, congenital nystagmus. Any resultant changes in the frequency and/or size in the continuous eye movements characteristic of this syndrome can have profound consequences on certain aspects of visual performance and perception, thus impacting on the everyday lives of those with this condition.

My collaborations, both in the UK and internationally, have ranged from an assessment of nerve fibre layer damage in an experimental model of glaucoma to investigations of the role of the hippocampus in spatial navigation and visual discriminations. We have just received funding to investigate the remarkable ability of birds to sense and orient with respect to the earth$acirc; s magnetic field. My team currently comprises two postdoctoral research associates and five postgraduate students.

We are supported principally by grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the Wellcome Trust, and our laboratories include state-of-the-art histological and neuroscience laboratories, a suite of videomicrographic image processing workstations, and an eye movement facility that includes both several relatively non-invasive infra-red recording systems.

2024

Dunn, M. J. et al. 2024. Minimal reporting guideline for research involving eye tracking (2023 edition). Behavior Research Methods 56(5), pp. 4351-4357. (10.3758/s13428-023-02187-1)
Thomas, N., Acton, J. H., Erichsen, J. T., Redmond, T. and Dunn, M. J. 2024. Reliability of gaze-contingent perimetry. Behavior Research Methods 56(5), pp. 4883-4892. (10.3758/s13428-023-02225-y)
Almagren, B. et al. 2024. Measurement of visual function in infantile nystagmus: a systematic review. British Journal of Ophthalmology 108(7), pp. 1038-1043. (10.1136/bjo-2023-324254)

2023

Chawner, S. J. et al. 2023. Neurodevelopmental dimensional assessment of young children at high genomic risk of neuropsychiatric conditions. JCPP Advances 3(2), article number: e12162. (10.1002/jcv2.12162)
Ward, K., Dunn, M., McIlreavy, L. and Erichsen, J. 2023. Measuring the spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity function in infantile nystagmus. Presented at: 2022 ARVO Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 23-27 April 2023, Vol. 64. pp. 5312.
Arblaster, G. et al. 2023. Managing Nystagmus in childhood. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Available at: https://www.rcophth.ac.uk/resources-listing/managing-nystagmus-in-childhood/

2022

Rennie, K. et al. 2022. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with nystagmus and an exploration of public assumptions about the condition: an electronic questionnaire study. BMC Ophthalmology 22, article number: 268. (10.1186/s12886-022-02484-x)
Zahidi, A. A. A., McIlreavy, L., Erichsen, J. and Woodhouse, J. M. 2022. Visual and refractive status of children with Down's syndrome and nystagmus. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 63(2), article number: 28. (10.1167/iovs.63.2.28)

2021

Amiebenomo, O., McIlreavy, L., Erichsen, J. and Woodhouse, J. 2021. Effect of viewing distance on fixation characteristics in typical observers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 62(8), pp. 3334-3334.
Cutsuridis, V., Jiang, S., Dunn, M. J., Rosser, A., Brawn, J. and Erichsen, J. T. 2021. Neural modelling of antisaccade performance of healthy controls and early Huntington's disease patients. Chaos 31, article number: 13121. (10.1063/5.0021584)

2020

McIlreavy, L., Freeman, T. and Erichsen, J. 2020. Two-dimensional analysis of horizontal and vertical pursuit in infantile nystagmus reveals quantitative deficits in accuracy and precision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 61(6), article number: 15. (10.1167/iovs.61.6.15)
Amiebenomo, O. M., McIlreavy, L., Erichsen, J. T. and Woodhouse, J. M. 2020. The potential off-axis performance and accuracy of the PowerRef 3 for measurements in nystagmus. Presented at: AVA Christmas Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 16 Dec 2019. Vol. 49(6). Sage pp. 707-708.
May, P. J., Sun, W., Wright, N. F. and Erichsen, J. T. 2020. Pupillary light reflex circuits in the macaque monkey: the preganglionic Edinger-Westphal nucleus. Brain Structure and Function 225(1), pp. 403-425. (10.1007/s00429-019-02000-w)
Self, J. E. et al. 2020. Management of nystagmus in children: A review of the literature and current practice in UK specialist services. Eye (10.1038/s41433-019-0741-3)

2019

Dunn, M. J., Harris, C. M., Ennis, F. A., Margrain, T. H., Woodhouse, J. M., McIlreavy, L. and Erichsen, J. T. 2019. An automated segmentation approach to calibrating infantile nystagmus waveforms. Behavior Research Methods 51(5), pp. 2074-2084. (10.3758/s13428-018-1178-5)
McIlreavy, L., Freeman, T. C. A. and Erichsen, J. T. 2019. Two-dimensional analysis of smooth pursuit eye movements reveals quantitative deficits in precision and accuracy. Translational Vision Science & Technology 8(5), article number: 7. (10.1167/tvst.8.5.7)
Vinuela-Navarro, V., Erichsen, J., CEM, W. and Woodhouse, J. 2019. Quantitative characterization of smooth pursuit eye movements in school-age children using a child-friendly setup. Translational Vision Science & Technology 8(5), article number: 8. (10.1167/tvst.8.5.8)
Clark, R. et al. 2019. The potential and value of objective eye tracking in the ophthalmology clinic. Eye 33, pp. 1200-1202. (10.1038/s41433-019-0417-z)
Thomas, N., Acton, J., Erichsen, J. and Dunn, M. J. 2019. Validation of a novel gaze-contingent perimeter with high-speed eye tracking. Presented at: 2019 ARVO Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 28 April - 2 May 2019, Vol. 60. Vol. 9. pp. 522-522.

2017

Erichsen, J. T., Dillingham, C., Dix, K., McIlreavy, L., Barnes, J. and Meydan, T. 2017. Using the optocollic response to determine visual perception in the homing pigeon (Columba livia) [Abstract]. Perception 46(10), pp. 1230-1231. (10.1177/0301006617710756)
Binti Ahmad Zahidi, A., Woodhouse, J., Erichsen, J. T. and Dunn, M. 2017. Infantile nystagmus: an optometrist's perspective. Clinical Optometry 9, pp. 123-131. (10.2147/OPTO.S126214)
Vinuela Navarro, V., Erichsen, J. T., Williams, C. and Woodhouse, J. M. 2017. Saccades and fixations in children with delayed reading skills 1. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 37(4), pp. 531-541. (10.1111/opo.12392)
Vinuela Navarro, V., Erichsen, J. T., Williams, C. and Woodhouse, J. 2017. Effect of stimulus type and motion on smooth pursuit in adults and children. Optometry and Vision Science 94(7), pp. 760-769. (10.1097/OPX.0000000000001090)
Dillingham, C. M., Guggenheim, J. A. and Erichsen, J. T. 2017. The effect of unilateral disruption of the centrifugal visual system on normal eye development in chicks raised under constant light conditions. Brain Structure and Function 222(3), pp. 1315-1330. (10.1007/s00429-016-1279-9)
Dunn, M., Debbie Wiggins, D., Woodhouse, J. M., Margrain, T. H., Harris, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2017. The effect of gaze angle on visual acuity in infantile nystagmus. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 58(1), pp. 642-650. (10.1167/iovs.16-20370)

2016

Aldoumani, N., Meydan, T., Dillingham, C. and Erichsen, J. 2016. Enhanced tracking system based on micro inertial measurements unit to measure sensorimotor responses in pigeons. IEEE Sensors Journal 16(24), pp. 8847-8853. (10.1109/JSEN.2016.2586540)
Bruce, L. L., Erichsen, J. T. and Reiner, A. 2016. Neurochemical compartmentalization within the pigeon basal ganglia. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 78, pp. 65-86. (10.1016/j.jchemneu.2016.08.005)
Powell, G., Wass, S. V., Erichsen, J. T. and Leekam, S. R. 2016. First evidence of the feasibility of gaze-contingent attention training for school children with autism. Autism 20(8), pp. 927-937. (10.1177/1362361315617880)
Snowden, R. J., O'Farrell, K. R., Burley, D., Erichsen, J. T., Newton, N. V. and Gray, N. S. 2016. The pupil's response to affective pictures: Role of image duration, habituation, and viewing mode. Psychophysiology 53(8), pp. 1217-1223. (10.1111/psyp.12668)

2015

Jankowski, M. M., Passecker, J., Islam, M. N., Vann, S., Erichsen, J. T., Aggleton, J. P. and O'Mara, S. M. 2015. Evidence for spatially-responsive neurons in the rostral thalamus. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9, article number: 256. (10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00256)
Dillingham, C. M., Erichsen, J. T., O'Mara, S. M., Aggleton, J. P. and Vann, S. D. 2015. Fornical and non-fornical projections from the rat hippocampal formation to the anterior thalamic nuclei. Hippocampus 25(9), pp. 977-992. (10.1002/hipo.22421)
Dillingham, C. M., Holmes, J. D., Wright, N. F., Erichsen, J. T., Aggleton, J. P. and Vann, S. D. 2015. Calcium-binding protein immunoreactivity in Gudden's tegmental nuclei and the hippocampal formation: differential co-localization in neurons projecting to the mammillary bodies. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 9, article number: 103. (10.3389/fnana.2015.00103)
Dunn, M., Margrain, T. H., Woodhouse, J. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2015. Visual processing in infantile nystagmus is not slow. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 56(9), pp. 5094-5101. (10.1167/iovs.15-16977)
Erichsen, J. T., Dillingham, C. M., Barnes, J. A., Meydan, T., Kutrowski, T. and Aldoumani, N. 2015. Saccadic and optocollic head movements in homing pigeon (Columba livia). Presented at: ARVO Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA, 3-7 May 2015, Vol. 56. Vol. 7. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
McIlreavy, L., Freeman, T. and Erichsen, J. 2015. Two dimensional analysis of horizontal and vertical pursuit performance in infantile nystagmus. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 56(7), pp. 2914-2914.
Harrison, J. J., Sumner, P., Dunn, M. J., Erichsen, J. T. and Freeman, T. C. A. 2015. Quick phases of infantile nystagmus show the saccadic inhibition effect. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 56(3), pp. 1594-1600. (10.1167/iovs.14-15655)
Villar, D. et al. 2015. Enhancer evolution across 20 mammalian species. Cell 160(3), pp. 554-566. (10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.006)
Aldoumani, N., Meydan, T., Dillingham, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2015. Enhanced tracking system based on micro inertial measurements unit to track sensorimotor responses in pigeons. Presented at: Sensors, Busan, South Korea, 1-4 Nov 2015Sensors, 2015 IEEE. pp. 1-4., (10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370309)

2014

Tsanov, M. et al. 2014. The irregular firing properties of thalamic head direction cells mediate turn-specific modulation of the directional tuning curve. Journal of Neurophysiology 112(9), pp. 2316-2331. (10.1152/jn.00583.2013)
Dunn, M., Margrain, T. H., Woodhouse, J. M., Ennis, F., Harris, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2014. Author response: grating visual acuity in infantile nystagmus in the absence of image motion. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 55(8), pp. 4955-4957. (10.1167/iovs.14-15070)
Jankowski, M. M., Islam, M. N., Wright, N. F., Vann, S. D., Erichsen, J. T., Aggleton, J. P. and O'Mara, S. M. 2014. Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells. eLife 3, article number: e03075. (10.7554/eLife.03075)
Dunn, M. J., Margrain, T. H., Woodhouse, J. M., Ennis, F. A., Harris, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2014. Grating visual acuity in infantile nystagmus in the absence of image motion. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 55(4), pp. 2682-2686. (10.1167/iovs.13-13455)
Erichsen, J. T., Wright, N. F. and May, P. J. 2014. The morphology and ultrastructure of medial rectus subgroup motoneurons in the macaque monkey. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 522(3), pp. 626-641. (10.1002/cne.23437)
Kutrowski, T., Meydan, T., Barnes, J., Aldoumani, N. and Erichsen, J. T. 2014. Instrumentation for monitoring animal movements. Presented at: 2014 IEEE Conference on Sensors, Valencia, Spain, 2-5 November 2014SENSORS, 2014 IEEE. IEEE pp. 1295-1299., (10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985248)
Aldoumani, N., Kutrowski, T., Barnes, J., Meydan, T. and Erichsen, J. T. 2014. Instrumentation to investigate the magnetoreception of homing pigeons by using applied magnetic fields. Presented at: 2014 IEEE Conference on Sensors, Valencia, Spain, 2-5 November 2014SENSORS, 2014 IEEE. IEEE pp. 1547-1550., (10.1109/ICSENS.2014.6985311)

2013

Jones, P. H., Harris, C. M., Woodhouse, J. M., Margrain, T. H., Ennis, F. and Erichsen, J. T. 2013. Stress and visual function in infantile nystagmus syndrome. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 54(13), pp. 7943-7951. (10.1167/iovs.13-12560)
Wright, N. F., Vann, S. D., Erichsen, J. T., O'Mara, S. M. and Aggleton, J. P. 2013. Segregation of parallel inputs to the anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic nuclei of the rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology 521(13), pp. 2966-2986. (10.1002/cne.23325)
Jankowski, M. M. et al. 2013. The anterior thalamus provides a subcortical circuit supporting memory and spatial navigation. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 7, article number: 45. (10.3389/fnsys.2013.00045)
Dillingham, C. M., Guggenheim, J. A. and Erichsen, J. T. 2013. Disruption of the centrifugal visual system inhibits early eye growth in chicks. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 54(5), pp. 3632-3643. (10.1167/iovs.12-11548)

2012

Jones, P. H., Wiggins, D., Margrain, T. H., Woodhouse, J. M., Harris, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2012. The impact of stress on visual performance in congenital nystagmus. In: Harris, C. M., Gottlob, I. and Sanders, J. eds. The Challenge of Nystagmus. Nystagmus Network, pp. 239-260.
Harris, C. M., Waddington, J. and Erichsen, J. T. 2012. Infantile Nystagmus: An adaptationist approach. In: Gottlob, I. et al. eds. The Challenge of Nystagmus. Nystagmus Network, pp. 27-48.
Erichsen, J. T. and May, P. J. 2012. A perioculomotor nitridergic population in the macaque and cat. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 53(9), pp. 5751-5761. (10.1167/iovs.12-10287)
Erichsen, J. T. and Woodhouse, J. M. 2012. Human and animal vision. In: Batchelor, B. ed. Machine Vision Handbook. Springer, pp. 89-115.

2011

Vann, S. D., Erichsen, J. T., O'Mara, S. M. and Aggleton, J. P. 2011. Selective disconnection of the hippocampal formation projections to the mammillary bodies produces only mild deficits on spatial memory tasks: Implications for fornix function. Hippocampus 21(9), pp. 945-957. (10.1002/hipo.20796)
Tsanov, M., Chah, E., Vann, S. D., Reilly, R. B., Erichsen, J. T., Aggleton, J. P. and O'Mara, S. M. 2011. Theta-modulated head direction cells in the rat anterior thalamus. The Journal of Neuroscience 31(26), pp. 9489-9502. (10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0353-11.2011)
Chen, P. Y. P., Prashar, A., Erichsen, J. T., To, C., Hocking, P. M. and Guggenheim, J. A. 2011. Heritability of ocular component dimensions in chickens: genetic variants controlling susceptibility to experimentally induced myopia and pretreatment eye size are distinct. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 52(7), pp. 4012-4020. (10.1167/iovs.10-7045)
Taylor, S., Calder, C., Albon, J., Erichsen, J. T., Boulton, M. E. and Morgan, J. E. 2011. Involvement of the CD200 receptor complex in microglia activation in experimental glaucoma. Experimental Eye Research 92(5), pp. 338-343. (10.1016/j.exer.2011.01.012)
Samsel, P. A., Kisiswa, L., Erichsen, J. T., Cross, S. D. and Morgan, J. E. 2011. A novel method for the induction of experimental glaucoma using magnetic microspheres. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 52(3), pp. 1671-1675. (10.1167/iovs.09-3921)
Tsanov, M., Vann, S. D., Erichsen, J. T., Wright, N. F., Aggleton, J. P. and O'Mara, S. M. 2011. Differential regulation of synaptic plasticity of the hippocampal and the hypothalamic inputs to the anterior thalamus. Hippocampus 21(1), pp. 1-8. (10.1002/hipo.20749)
Guggenheim, J. A. et al. 2011. Pre-treatment choroidal thickness is not predictive of susceptibility to form-deprivation myopia in chickens. Ophthalmic And Physiological Optics 31(5), pp. 516-528. (10.1111/j.1475-1313.2011.00827.x)
Chen, P. Y. et al. 2011. Selective breeding for susceptibility to myopia reveals a gene-environment interaction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 52(7), pp. 4003-4011. (10.1167/iovs.10-7044)
Tsanov, M., Wright, N. F., Vann, S. D., Erichsen, J. T., Aggleton, J. P. and O'Mara, S. M. 2011. Hippocampal inputs mediate theta-related plasticity in anterior thalamus. Neuroscience 187, pp. 52-62. (10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.03.055)
Tsanov, M. et al. 2011. Oscillatory entrainment of thalamic neurons by theta rhythm in freely moving rats. Journal of Neurophysiology 105(1), pp. 4-17. (10.1152/jn.00771.2010)

2010

Amin, E., Wright, N. F., Poirier, G. L., Thomas, K. L., Erichsen, J. T. and Aggleton, J. P. 2010. Selective lamina dysregulation in granular retrosplenial cortex (area 29) after anterior thalamic lesions: an in situ hybridization and trans-neuronal tracing study in rats. Neuroscience 169(3), pp. 1255-1267. (10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.05.055)
Wright, N. F., Erichsen, J. T., Vann, S. D., O'Mara, S. M. and Aggleton, J. P. 2010. Parallel but separate inputs from limbic cortices to the mammillary bodies and anterior thalamic nuclei in the rat. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 518(12), pp. 2334-2354. (10.1002/cne.22336)
Chen, P. Y., Prashar, A., Hocking, P. M., Erichsen, J. T., To, C., Schaeffel, F. and Guggenheim, J. A. 2010. Sex, eye size, and the rate of myopic eye growth due to form deprivation in outbred white leghorn chickens. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 51(2), pp. 651-657. (10.1167/iovs.09-3826)
Tattersall, R. J., Prashar, A., Singh, K. D., Tokarczuk, P. F., Erichsen, J. T., Hocking, P. M. and Guggenheim, J. A. 2010. Ex vivo magnetic resonance imaging of crystalline lens dimensions in chicken. Molecular Vision 16(18), pp. 144-153.
Aggleton, J. P., O'Mara, S. M., Vann, S. D., Wright, N. F., Tsanov, M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2010. Hippocampal-anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions. European Journal of Neuroscience 31(12), pp. 2292-2307. (10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07251.x)

2009

Prashar, A., Hocking, P. M., Erichsen, J. T., Fan, Q., Saw, S. M. and Guggenheim, J. A. 2009. Common determinants of body size and eye size in chickens from an advanced intercross line. Experimental Eye Research 89(1), pp. 42-48. (10.1016/j.exer.2009.02.008)
Goodall, N. et al. 2009. 3-Dimensional modelling of chick embryo eye development and growth using high resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Experimental Eye Research 89(4), pp. 511-521. (10.1016/j.exer.2009.05.014)

2008

May, P. J., Sun, W. and Erichsen, J. T. 2008. Defining the pupillary component of the perioculomotor preganglionic population within a unitary primate Edinger-Westphal nucleus. In: Kennard, C. and Leigh, R. J. eds. Using Eye Movements as an Experimental Probe of Brain function - A Symposium in Honor of Jean Büttner-Ennever. Progress in Brain Research Vol. 171. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 97-106., (10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00613-4)

2007

Prashar, A., Guggenheim, J. A., Erichsen, J. T., Hocking, P. M. and Morgan, J. E. 2007. Measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) in chickens using a rebound tonometer: Quantitative evaluation of variance due to position inaccuracies. Experimental Eye Research 85(4), pp. 563-571. (10.1016/j.exer.2007.07.010)
Wiggins, D., Woodhouse, J. M., Margrain, T. H., Harris, C. M. and Erichsen, J. T. 2007. Infantile nystagmus adapts to visual demand. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 48(5), pp. 2089-2094. (10.1167/iovs.06-1108)

2006

Bingman, V. P., Erichsen, J. T., Anderson, J. . D., Good, M. A. and Pearce, J. M. 2006. Spared feature-structure discrimination but diminished salience of environmental geometry in hippocampal-lesioned homing pigeons (Columba livia). Behavioral Neuroscience 120(4), pp. 835-841. (10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.835)
Nair-Roberts, R. G., Erichsen, J. T., Reboreda, J. C. and Kacelnik, A. 2006. The distribution of Substance P reveals a novel subdivision in the hippocampus of parasitic South American cowbirds. Journal of Comparative Neurology 496(5), pp. 610-626. (10.1002/cne.20915)
Morgan, J. E., Datta, A. V., Erichsen, J. T., Albon, J. and Boulton, M. E. 2006. Retinal ganglion cell remodelling in experimental glaucoma. In: Hollyfield, J. G., Anderson, R. E. and LaVail, M. M. eds. Retinal Degenerative Diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Vol. 572. New York: Springer, pp. 397-402.
Bingman, V. P., Siegel, J. J., Gagliardo, A. and Erichsen, J. T. 2006. Representing the richness of avian spatial cognition: properties of a lateralized homing pigeon hippocampus. Reviews in the Neurosciences 17(1-2), pp. 17-28. (10.1515/REVNEURO.2006.17.1-2.17)

2005

Pearce, J. M., George, D. N., Haselgrove, M., Erichsen, J. T. and Good, M. A. 2005. The influence of hippocampal lesions on the discrimination of structure and on spatial memory in pigeons (Columba livia). Behavioral Neuroscience 119(5), pp. 1316-1330. (10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1316)

2004

Fernandez-Juricic, E., Erichsen, J. T. and Kacelnik, A. 2004. Visual perception and social foraging in birds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19(1), pp. 25-31. (10.1016/j.tree.2003.10.003)

2003

Rakebrandt, F., North, R. V., Erichsen, J. T., Drasdo, N., Fowler, C., Cowey, A. and Morgan, J. E. 2003. The construction of a model eye for investigation of laser-tissue interactions in scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. Optometry & Vision Science 80(3), pp. 252-258. (10.1097/00006324-200303000-00015)
McGuigan, C. et al. 2003. Halophenyl furanopyrimidines as potent and selective anti-VZV agents. Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy 14(3), pp. 165-170. (10.1177/095632020301400306)

2002

Guggenheim, J. A., Erichsen, J. T., Hocking, P. M., Wright, N. F. and Black, R. 2002. Similar genetic susceptibility to form-deprivation myopia in three strains of chicken. Vision Research 42(25), pp. 2747-2756. (10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00383-8)
McGuigan, C. et al. 2002. Alkyloxyphenyl furano pyrimidines as potent and selective anti-VZV agents with enhanced water solubility. Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy 13(2), pp. 91-99. (10.1177/095632020201300203)
Erichsen, J. T. and May, P. J. 2002. The pupillary and ciliary components of the cat Edinger-Westphal nucleus: a transsynaptic transport investigation. Visual Neuroscience 19(1), pp. 15-29. (10.1017/S0952523801191029)

2001

Erichsen, J. T., Jarvis-Evans, J., Khaliq, A. and Boulton, M. E. 2001. Oxygen modulates the release of urokinase and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 by retinal pigment epithelial cells. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 33(3), pp. 237-247. (10.1016/S1357-2725(01)00009-7)

2000

McGuigan, C. et al. 2000. Highly potent and selective inhibition of varicella-zoster virus by bicyclic furopyrimidine nucleosides bearing an aryl side chain. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 43(26), pp. 4993-4997. (10.1021/jm000210m)
Vann, S. D., Brown, M. W., Erichsen, J. T. and Aggleton, J. P. 2000. Using Fos imaging in the rat to reveal the anatomical extent of the disruptive effects of fornix lesions. Journal of Neuroscience 20(21), pp. 8144-8152.
Vann, S. D., Brown, M. W., Erichsen, J. T. and Aggleton, J. P. 2000. Fos imaging reveals differential patterns of hippocampal and parahippocampal subfield activation in rats in response to different spatial memory tests. Journal of Neuroscience 20(7), pp. 2711-2718.
Moriarty, P., Dickson, A. J., Erichsen, J. T. and Boulton, M. E. 2000. Protein kinase C isoenzyme expression in retinal cells. Ophthalmic Research 32(2-3), pp. 57-60. (10.1159/000055590)
Erichsen, J. T., Hodos, W. and Evinger, C. 2000. The pupillary light reflex, accommodation and convergence: Comparative considerations. In: Franzén, O., Richter, H. and Stark, L. eds. Accommodation and vergence mechanisms in the visual system. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 31-42.

1989

Erichsen, J. T., Hodos, W., Evinger, C., Bessette, B. B. and Phillips, S. J. 1989. Head orientation in pigeons: Postural, locomotor and visual determinants. Brain Behavior and Evolution 33(5), pp. 268-278. (10.1159/000115935)

1986

Evinger, C. and Erichsen, J. T. 1986. Transsynaptic retrograde transport of fragment C of tetanus toxin demonstrated by immunohistochemical localization. Brain Research 380(2), pp. 383-388. (10.1016/0006-8993(86)90241-6)

1985

Tansley, K. and Erichsen, J. T. 1985. Vision. In: Campbell, B. and Lack, E. eds. A Dictionary of Birds. Calton: T & A D Poyser, pp. 623-629.

1984

Gamlin, P. D. R., Reiner, A., Erichsen, J. T., Karten, H. J. and Cohen, D. H. 1984. The neural substrate for the pupillary light reflex in the pigeon (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Neurology 226(4), pp. 523-543. (10.1002/cne.902260407)

1983

Reiner, A., Karten, H. J., Gamlin, P. D. R. and Erichsen, J. T. 1983. Parasympathetic ocular control — functional subdivisions and circuitry of the avian nucleus of Edinger-Westphal. Trends in Neurosciences 6(4), pp. 140-145. (10.1016/0166-2236(83)90068-1)

1982

Erichsen, J. T., Reiner, A. and Karten, H. J. 1982. Co-occurrence of substance P-like and Leu-enkephalin-like immunoreactivities in neurones and fibres of avian nervous system [Letter]. Nature 295(5848), pp. 407-410. (10.1038/295407a0)
Erichsen, J. T., Karten, H. J., Eldred, W. D. and Brecha, N. C. 1982. Localization of substance P-like and enkephalin-like immunoreactivity within preganglionic terminals of the avian ciliary ganglion: light and electron microscopy. Journal of Neuroscience 2(7), pp. 994-1003.

1980

Houston, A. I., Krebs, J. R. and Erichsen, J. T. 1980. Optimal prey choice and discrimination time in the great tit (Parus major L.). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 6(3), pp. 169-175.
Erichsen, J. T., Krebs, J. R. and Houston, A. I. 1980. Optimal Foraging and Cryptic Prey. Journal of Animal Ecology 49(1), pp. 271-276.

1977

Krebs, J. R., Erichsen, J. T., Webber, M. I. and Charnov, E. L. 1977. Optimal prey selection in the great tit (Parus major). Animal Behaviour 25(1), pp. 30-38. (10.1016/0003-3472(77)90064-1)

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr. Matt Dunn Nystagmus Network

Mr. Tomasz Kutrowski Leverhulme Trust with Dr. Turgut Meydan (Engineering)

Postgraduate students

Current Grant Support

M Dunn, JT Erichsen

Establishing clinical measures of temporal visual function in infantile nystagmus

Nystagmus Network Grant Award

2014-2015 £14,552

JT Erichsen, T Freeman

Understanding the basis for oscillopsia in nystagmus to provide a basis for treatment

Fight For Sight / Nystagmus Network Grant Award

2014-2015 £15,000

S Leekam, S Wass, JT Erichsen, A Clarke, A Millington

Visual attention control in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders$acirc;

Wellcome Trust / NISCHR Seedcorn/Feasibility Grant

2013-2014 £49,575

RJ Snowden, NS Gray, JT Erichsen

In the eyes of the beholder: The use of pupil response as a measure of emotional processing$acirc;

Wellcome Trust / NISCHR Seedcorn/Feasibility Grant

2013-2014 £42,189

JT Erichsen

Wellcome Trust ISSF Mobility Award

2013-2104 £1,580

JT Erichsen, T Meydan

Magnetoreception in homing pigeons: A novel approach

Leverhulme Trust Project Grant

2012-2015 £248,049

AJ Quantock & co-applicants, incl. JT Erichsen)

BBSRC Doctoral Training Grant

2009-2016 £212,040

Current Studentship Grants

JM Woodhouse, JT Erichsen, C Williams (Bristol Eye Hospital)

The assessment of tracking difficulties in children

College of Optometrists (UK)

2011-2014 £50,000

Recent Past Grant Support

JP Aggleton, , S Vann, SM O$acirc; Mara (Dublin), JT Erichsen

Cellular substrates supporting the mnemonic functions of Papez$acirc; circuit

Wellcome Trust Project grant

2010-2014 £205,032

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SM O$acirc; Mara (Dublin), JP Aggleton, S Vann, JT Erichsen

Cellular substrates supporting the mnemonic functions of Papez$acirc; circuit

Wellcome Trust Project grant

2010-2014 $acirc; 220,932

JT Erichsen

European Conference on Magnetic Sensors & Actuars & Satellite Wire Workshop

Royal Society International Travel Grants - 2010/R2 Conference Participation

2010-2011 £1,400

JP Aggleton, SM O$acirc; Mara, JT Erichsen, S Vann

Why are there parallel hippocampal $acirc; diencephalic pathways for event memory?

Wellcome Trust Project Grant

2007-2010 £158,395

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JT Erichsen

Visual stimulus generation equipment for Research Unit for Nystagmus

Nystagmus Network (UK)

2008 £11,000

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JT Erichsen (PI) & other co-applicants

Multidisciplinary core facility for microscopic image analysis and 3-D stereology

BBSRC JREI

2006 £69,864

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JA Guggenheim, JT Erichsen, PM Hocking

Mapping QTL for ocular component dimensions in chicken

BBSRC Project Grant

2005-2008 £265,360

Recent Research Seminars

July 2010- Invited speaker, EMSA Conference, Bodrum, Turkey

$acirc; Magnetic vision$acirc;

Nov 2010- Invited speaker, Society of Low Vision Specialists, Denmark

$acirc; A stable view of the world: Why do we move our eyes?$acirc;

July 2011- Invited speaker, Gordon Conference, Maine, USA:

Eye movements: The motor system that sees the world

$acirc; Magnetoreception in homing pigeons: The dynamics of saccadic head movements"

OP1105/1106 Instructor- Human head & neck anatomy
OP2014 Lecturer- Binocular Vision and Optometric Neurophysiology
OP3107 Supervisor- Research Project

Education & Professional Qualifications

1968 - 1972	AB (First Class Honours in Biology) Harvard University
1979	DPhil (Zoology) University of Oxford
1979 - 1983	National Eye Institute (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Academic Positions

1983 - 1996	Research Assistant Professor	Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York (USA)
1995 - 2014	Senior Lecturer	School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
2006 - present	Head	Visual Neuroscience & Molecular Biology Research Group
2014 - Present	Professor	School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University

Awards & Honors

1972	Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1972	NSF Postgraduate Studentship
1972-1975	Marshall Scholar
1972-1979	Danforth Foundation Fellow

Administration

School

Director, Postgraduate Research

Lead, Visual Neuroscience Director, Research Unit for Nystagmus (RUN)

Member of:

Research Committee
Postgraduate Research Committee
BSc Board of Studies

Recent University Committees (2000-2012)

Chair, University JBIOS Users' Group

Member of:

Biological Standards Committee
CUBRIC Steering Group
EMRIC Management Group
Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Institute Management Group
BCNC

Public Engagement

Interview with Richard Osman about his nystagmus [Mail on Sunday] $acirc; 4 November 2013

Featured as Director of the Cardiff Research Unit for Nystagmus.

Brain Games $acirc; 17 March 2013; 16 March 2014

Wellcome Trust funded public engagement event produced by neuroscientists at Cardiff University for Brain Awareness Week hosted by the National Museum of Wales, to allow members of the public to explore different facets of neuroscience, mental health and biomedical ethics in a series of entertaining and stimulating activities for children and their parents.

Nystagmus Network Open Day $acirc; 13 October 2011; 5 October 2013

An invited speaker at this annual event hosted in London by the Nystagmus Network charity to enable those with nystagmus and their families to speak to medics, researchers and other professionals in an informal setting. There is also an exhibition area for low vision aids and local groups.

Science in Health $acirc; 17 March 2011; 8 March 2012; 21-22 March 2013; 19-20 March 2014

Cardiff School of Medicine / University Hospital of Wales

Demonstrations to introduce high school students to the function of eye movements and how they are recorded in the course of basic research and clinical diagnosis.

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter $acirc; April 2011 $acirc; Magnetoreception in the homing pigeon$acirc; (see page 10)

An article about our recently funded research on the remarkable ability of homing pigeons to sense the earth$acirc; s magnetic field and orient accurately to find their way home.

Radio Wales Science CafÃ $acirc; 4 April 2011

School of Optometry & Vision Sciences at Cardiff University

This week Adam Walton, from BBC Radio Wales, visits the School to take a closer look at one of the most complex organs in the human body: the eye.

Open Day for the Research Unit for Nystagmus (RUN) - 17 April 2010

First Open Day to pay tribute to and thank those who have volunteered for our studies, and to introduce those who were not volunteers to what we do in an informal environment. Interviewed by Insight Radio (RNIB).

Nystagmus Network (UK) - Research featured on charity web site and in Newsletters

1996-present Alumni admissions interviewer for Wales & Southwest England, Harvard University; member of Harvard Club of the United Kingdom (HCUK)

2007-present Organiser of the Cardiff Expat American Meetup Group

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

1972- Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1972- NSF Postgraduate Studentship
1972-1975- Marshall Scholar
1972-1979- Danforth Foundation Fellow

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

Applied Vision Association (AVA)
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)

Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol

1983 - 1996- Research Assistant Professor Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York (USA)
1995 - 2014-Senior Lecturer School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
2006 - present- HeadVisual Neuroscience & Molecular Biology Research Group
2014 - Present- ProfessorSchool of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University

Pwyllgorau ac adolygu

Director, Postgraduate Research
Lead, Visual Neuroscience Director, Research Unit for Nystagmus (RUN)
Research Committee
Postgraduate Research Committee
BSc Board of Studies

Recent University Committees (2000-2012)

Chair, University JBIOS Users' Group
Biological Standards Committee
CUBRIC Steering Group
EMRIC Management Group
Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Institute Management Group
BCNC

Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn goruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD ym meysydd:

Symudiadau llygaid dynol
seicoffiseg a chanfyddiad gweledol
Infantile Nystagmus
Clefyd niwroddirywiol
niwroanatomeg cof gofodol

Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol

Onyeka Amiebenomo

Myfyriwr ymchwil

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+44 29208 75656
Optometreg a Gwyddorau'r Golwg , Ystafell Room 2.39, Maindy Road, Heol Maendy, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF24 4HQ

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