Ronald Douglas
Professor
School of Health Sciences
City University London
United Kingdom
Biography
Ron is a biologist specialising in the visual system who joined City University London in 1984. He was previously a Royal Society post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (Germany) and a research assistant at the University of Sussex. Ron graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sussex in 1977 and obtained a PhD on 'spectral sensitivity and visual adaptation in the rainbow trout' from the University of Stirling in 1980. This was followed by post-doctoral fellowships at the Universities of Ulm and Sussex, before joining City University London in 1984.
Research Interest
Mammalian pupillometry and ocular adaptations in lower vertebrates
Publications
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Partridge, J.C., Douglas, R.H., Marshall, N.J., Chung, W.S., Jordan, T.M. and Wagner, H.J. (2014). Reflecting optics in the diverticular eye of a deep-sea barreleye fish (Rhynchohyalus natalensis). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1782)
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Votruba, M., Davies, J.R., Douglas, R.H. and Davies, V.J. (2014). Visual dysfunction and pupillary responses are dissociated in the Opa3 mutant mouse with retinal degeneration. ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, 92 .
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Baker, G.E., de Grip, W.J., Turton, M., Wagner, H.J., Foster, R.G. and Douglas, R.H. (2015). Light sensitivity in a vertebrate mechanoreceptor? The Journal of Experimental Biology, 218, pp. 2826–2829
