Team
Anna Louise Vlasits, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Secondary appointments: Dept. of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Dept. of Psychology, Dept. of Biology
email: avlasits [at] uic.edu
pronouns: she/her
Shikha Kalra, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
pronouns: she/her
Jeremy Bohl, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
pronouns: he/him
Hayden Fisher
Research Specialist, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
pronouns: she/her
Undergraduates!
Madihah Shasmeen
Mohammad Shah
Arman Singh
Alumni
Resham Patil, MA awarded in 2026, Dept. of Computer Science
Amara Victoria, Rotating PhD student, Dept. of Biological Sciences
John Smetana, Rotating PhD student, GEMS program
Cayden Bro, Rotating MD/PhD student, MSTP program
Elias Laskey, Research specialist, currently PhD student at UIC Dept. of Biological Sciences
Lego Vlasits
Herding specialist and lab mascot
Basic Obedience degree from K9 University
This could be you!
Banner art by Ibn Al-Haytham from Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), Istanbul, Eleventh Century