Professor Paul Martin
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Professor
C09 - Sydney Eye Hospital |
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Biographical details
Paul R. Martin read Physiology and Psychology at the University of Sydney and received his PhD in Physiology at Sydney in 1986. Following postdoctoral work in Germany, in 1992 he joined Faculty at the University of Sydney. In 2003 he left Sydney to take up appointment as Director of Research at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He returned to Sydney in 2010 to take up his current appointment as Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology.
Research interests
Vision is our most important sense, and diseases which cause visual loss and blindness are terribly debilitating. The Visual Neuroscience Research Group studies the normal structure and function of the visual system, by measuring the connections between nerve cells (neurones) in the retina and by studying the activity of single neurones in the retina and early stages of the visual pathway.
Our chief research interest is how colour, form, and motion in the visual world are processed in the retina and sent as distinct streams of information to the brain.
Methods used include immunohistochemical analysis of neurotransmitter receptors, light and electron microscopy, single cell extracellular recording, linear systems analysis of visual responses.
Teaching areas
Neuroscience at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels.
Current national competitive grants*
2012
Interaction of thalamic and cortical activity in the primate visual system
Martin P, Solomon S, Grunert U, Dreher B
NHMRC Project Grants ($471,235 over 3 years)
2010
Inhibitory microcircuits in the primate retina
Grunert U, Martin P
NHMRC Project Grant ($417,675 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney