During the final week of classes of the Master in Advanced Optometry and Vision (MOAV) given in the University Clinic of Integral Vision (CUVI) of the University of Murcia, professor José Manuel González-Méijome from the University of Minho has given the class on The Control of the Progression of Myopia.

The subject’s goal is to bring the graduate student up to speed with topics related to modern knowledge of the etiology, progression and methods of control of the progression of myopia. Special focus is put on the the subject of prescription of optical means and solutions of proven efficiency to young and infantile patients.

During the OC 2015 Conference in Valencia, celebrated on the 7. and 8. of march, professor Larry Thibos from the University of Indiana has given the last clas of the Fourier Optics Course. Among the students there were the members of the European Network AGEYE ITN, two of which are members of the group CIVIUM. As a thank you, the students presented him with a gift t-shirt that quoted the professor saying “You don’t have to be crazy to learn Fourier Optics, but it helps! He received it from the hands of his friend and our group’s director, Norberto Norberto López-Gil.

The Optometry and Vision Science (OVS) journal has released a special issue on “Wavefront Refraction and Correction”, where two articles of the members of the CIVIUM were published. In one of them: “Changes in the Objective Amplitude of Accommodation with Pupil Size” the authors (Lara, Francisco; Bernal-Molina, Paula; Fernández-Sánchez, Vicente; López-Gil, Norberto) demonstrate how subjects accommodate more (their amplitude of accommodation is larger) when they are presented with stimuli in an environment with more illumination, which causes the pupil to become smaller.

Allowing the students can learn how to measure the vision of people with psychological disorders was one of the goals of the summer course celebrated in Águilas last weekend – XI Summer Course on Actual Aspects of Vision Of the International Universidad del Mar (University of Murcia). The course has united various experts in the fields related to vision, two of them from United States of America and was celebrated in the old Cuartel (police station of the Guardia Civil) in Calabardina (Águilas). This beautiful location belongs to the Asociación Asprodes (Asprodes Society) which has under its care 200 people with physical deficiencies. Thanks to the work of the professors and students of the course, those who need it will be prescribed and given glasses they require. The Asprodes Society has generously granted the organizers of the course the use if the beautiful Cuartel. The course has been organized by the professors of the University of Murcia – Fernández Sánchez and Norberto López Gil.

Recent research of various members of the CiViUM group, published in the OVS review, shows by means of adaptive optics what was known since a long time but has not been demonstrated so far – the accommodative lag present in every accommodating eye is dependant in its major part on the depth of field of the eye. More details in the article: http://journals.lww.com.

Various members of the CiViUM presented some of their last research results at the Visual and Physiological Optics 2014 Meeting in the beautiful city of Wroclaw (Poland).

Presented was the following research:

• J. F. Zapata-Díaz, N. López-Gil (Spain, UK) Accommodation and age-dependent eye model based on in vivo measurements. (Poster).
• M. Jaskulski, L. Thibos, D. R. Iskander, N. López Gil (Spain, USA, Poland) Modelling of the effects of chromatic aberration on the accommodative response. (Poster).
• P. Bernal-Molina, J. F. Castejón-Mochón, N. López-Gil (Spain) Refraction changes causes by Stiles-Crawford effect in the presence of spherical aberration: a theoretical study. (Poster).
• N. López Gil, D. López-Alcón, P. Bernal-Molina, F. Vargas, L. Thibos (Spain, USA) Individual variation in the amplitude of accommodation in subjects with a similar age. (Oral).

A member of the CiViUM group, Francisco Lara has been granted one of the awards for the best research work presented at the 23º International Conference on Optometry, Contactology and Opthalmology (OPTOM2014), celebrated in Madrid. In his name, the award was received by the director of the group Norberto López-Gil.

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