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Forschungsinstitut fuer Augenheilkunde
INSTITUTE FOR OPHTHALMIC RESEARCH
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FÜR AUGENHEILKUNDE
Dr. Sandra Wagner

Sandra Wagner

Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc., FAAO
Postdoctoral Researcher
 

Business address

Institute for Ophthalmic Research
University of Tübingen
Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse 7
D-72076 Tübingen
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 87431
E-mail: sandra.wagner@uni-tuebingen.de

Academic Education

2020Dr. rer. nat., Neuroscience, International Max Planck Research School for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2016Master of Science, Optometry and Psychophysics, Aalen University, Germany
2014Bachelor of Science, Optometry and Audiology, Aalen University, Germany

Further Education

09/2022Course “Essentials of Medical Education”, Didactic Qualification Programme for Medical Teachers in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Competence Centre for University Teaching in Medicine Baden-Wuerttemberg, Tuebingen, Germany
07/2022Research Academy (by The American Academy of Optometry), Training in NIH/NEI Grant Writing, The Ohio State University College of Optometry, Columbus, Ohio, USA
11/2021Good Scientific Practice for Supervisors, Medical Faculty/ Graduate Academy, University of Tuebingen, Germany
01/2019 - 06/2019ARVO Global Mentorship Program
03/2017 - 12/2020MBA Fundamentals Program for Researchers, HECTOR School, Technology Business School of the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

Professional Experience

Since 01/2021Postdoctoral Researcher, Myopia Research/ Vision Research, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
03/2017 - 12/2020Research Assistant/ PhD candidate, Myopia Research, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
10/2019 - 03/2020Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow, Myopia Research, State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York City, USA
03/2017 - 12/2020Research Assistant/ PhD candidate, Myopia Research, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
10/2016 – 01/2017Research Assistant, Vision Research, ZEISS Vision Science Lab, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
09/2015 – 05/2016Master Student, Myopia Research, ZEISS Vision Science Lab, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany
08/2012 – 11/2012Research Intern, Contact Lens Metrology/ Myopia Research, Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, Australia

Teaching

2023University of Tuebingen, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Lecture in Series “System Analysis of the Retina in Health and Disease” (TüKliF Seminar)
Winter Term 2023Lecture "English for Optometrists" Degree Program B Sc Optometry Aalen University, Germany
Summer Term 2022Lecture "Applied Optometry" Degree Program B Sc Optometry, Aalen University, Germany

Professional Activities and Functions

Invited Presentations

03/202461th Fielmann Akademie Kolloquium "Accommodation and Convergence", Webinar for Optometrists, Opticians, Ophthalmologists, and Industry
10/2023The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Optometry (Host: Prof. Safal Khanal), Birmingham, Alabama, USA
10/2023Emory University, School of Medicine (Host: Prof. Machelle Pardue), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
04/2021Research Seminar Series, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, UK
11/2020Webinar “Myopia Management WebiNights”, Weiterbildung für gutes Sehen, Online seminars for further education of eye care specialists
01/2020Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research Colloquium, State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York City, USA
04/201869th Annual Congress of the Scientific Association for Ophthalmic Optics and Optometry, Mainz, Germany
01/2016Panel discussion opti-Forum, “Will the entire world soon be nearsighted? Myopia research between science and reality”, OPTI, International Trade Show for Optics and Design, Munich, Germany
10/2015Guild meeting of the Federal Trade Guild Association for Opticians and Optometrists (ZVA), Starnberg, Germany

Moderator

10/2023American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Session: Mechanisms in Myopia
04/2023The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Poster Session: Myopia: Clinical Interventions and Diagnostics
09/2019International Myopia Conference Tokyo, Japan. Session 5: Accommodation/Binocular Vision

Academic Awards

10/2023International Myopia Travel Grant by the International Myopia Institute (American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting 2023)
2022Certificate Program Leadership in Academia, Industry & Society (Graduate Academy)
2020Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (FAAO)
2020Josh Wallman Memorial Travel Grant Recipient of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA
2020Outstanding Poster Award finalist of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA
10/2019Fulbright Scholarship for six-month Visiting Research Fellowship at SUNY College of Optometry, New York City, USA
08/2018Best Student Paper Award, Optical Society of America Technical Group Applications of Visual Science
10/2017Rupp + Hubrach Award for Ophthalmic Optics for master’s thesis
12/2015Award of Binder Optik GmbH for bachelor’s thesis
11/2014Carl Zeiss TopJob Award (Best of class)

Past and Current Funding

03/2023 - nowMeta Technologies LLC Myopia Grant by the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) and Reality Labs Research (RLR)
02/2021 - nowCarl Zeiss Foundation "Breakthroughs at Universities 2020: Intelligent Solutions for an Aging Society"
10/2019American Academy of Optometry Student Travel Fellowship
03/2017 - 11/2020Hector Fellow Academy gGmbH
10/2012 - 02/2014Scholarship “Deutschlandstipendium”
2012Scholarship “Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium”

Reviewer

  • Vision Research
  • Current Eye Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biomedical Optics Express
  • Eye and Vision
  • PLOS ONE
  • Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
  • Frontiers

Memberships

  • The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  • British Contact Lens Association (BCLA)
  • American Academy of Optometry

Additional information

  • Languages: German, English, French

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

  1. Wagner S, Strasser T. Impact of text contrast polarity on the retinal activity in myopes and emmetropes using modified pattern ERG. Scientific Reports. 2023;13:11101. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38192-9
  2. Wagner S, Süer E, Sigdel B, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Monocular transcorneal electrical stimulation induces ciliary muscle thickening in contralateral eye. Experimental Eye Research. 2023;231:109475 doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109475
  3. Straßer T§, Wagner S§, Zrenner E. Review of the application of the open-source software CilOCT for semi-automatic segmentation and analysis of the ciliary muscle in OCT images. Plos one. 2020;15(6):e0234330. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234330
    § Contributed equally to the work
  4. Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Troilo D. Changing accommodation behaviour during multifocal soft contact lens wear using auditory biofeedback training. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1):1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61904-4
  5. Wagner S, Zrenner E, Straßer T. Emmetropes and myopes differ little in their accommodation dynamics but strongly in their ciliary muscle morphology. Vision Research. 2019;163:42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2019.08.002
  6. Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Straßer T. Prolonged nearwork affects the ciliary muscle morphology. Experimental Eye Research. 2019;186. 107741. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2019.107741
  7. Wagner S, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Ciliary muscle thickness profiles derived from optical coherence tomography images. Biomedical Optics Express. 2018;9(10):5100-5114. doi: 10.1364/BOE.9.005100
  8. Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Schaeffel F, Wahl S. Reducing the lag of accommodation by auditory biofeedback: A pilot study. Vision Research. 2016;129:50-60. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2016.10.002
  9. Wagner S, Conrad F, Bakaraju RC, Fedtke C, Ehrmann K, Holden BA. Power profiles of single vision and multifocal soft contact lenses. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye. 2015 Feb;38(1):2-14. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2014.07.008

Poster presentations:

  1. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Wagner S, Süer E, Sigdel B, Strasser T. Monocular transcorneal electrical stimulation induces thickening of contralateral ciliary muscle
  2. International Myopia Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Wagner S, Strasser T. Contrast polarity of text presented in modified pattern electroretinogram affects retinal responses in emmetropes and myopes differently.
  3. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA: Wagner S, Strasser T. Does reading text with inverted contrast affect the ciliary muscle structure of emmetropic and myopic eyes? Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2022;63(7): 1450.
  4. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2020: Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Wahl S, Schaeffel F, Troilo D. Accommodation training with different myopia correction methods. (Abstract of Distinction)
  5. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Wagner S, Strasser T, Zrenner E. Ciliary muscle thickness profiles in far and near accommodation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2018;59(9):2940.
  6. International Myopia Conference 2017, Birmingham, UK: Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Schaeffel F, Wahl S. Does auditory biofeedback influence accommodation variability?
  7. British Contact Lens Association Clinical Conference and Exhibition 2013, Manchester, UK: Wagner S, Conrad F, Bakaraju RC, Fedtke C, Ehrmann K. Power profiles of single vision soft contact lenses. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2013.08.115

Conference Talks:

10/2023American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Wagner S, Settele A, Strasser T. ERG Responses of Emmetropes vs. Myopes to Selective ON/OFF Pathway Activation Using a Novel Stimulus
10/2023American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Wagner S, Wichmann T, Strasser T. Are Effects of Retinal ON/OFF Pathway Stimulation Influenced by Accommodation and Pupil Responses during Reading Task?
10/2020American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting “Academy 2020 At Home” (virtual meeting): Wagner S, Strasser T, Schaeffel F, Troilo D, Zrenner E. How does the accommodation system of emmetropes and myopes differ?
10/2019American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Strasser T, Zrenner E, Troilo D. Accommodation Training in Emmetropic and Myopic Students using Auditory Biofeedback.
09/2019International Myopia Conference Tokyo, Japan: Wagner S, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Emmetropes and myopes differ little in their accommodation dynamics but strongly in their ciliary muscle morphology.
04/2019The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Does close work affect the ciliary muscle morphology?
08/20189th European Meeting on Visual and Physiological Optics, Athens, Greece: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Effects of nearwork on ciliary muscle morphology.