Ronald Douglas

Professor
School of Health Sciences
City University London
United Kingdom

Professor Healthcare
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 Intrest

Mammalian pupillometry and ocular adaptations in lower vertebrates

List of Publications
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)
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 .
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