Suva Roy

Principal Investigator

Dr. Suva Roy earned his PhD in Physics from Indiana University Bloomington, where he studied information processing in the fly visual system. His fascination with visual processing guided his postdoctoral work at Duke University, where he integrated electrophysiological recordings with computational modeling to study how natural scenes are encoded by the mammalian retina. During this time, he designed and implemented a custom light sheet imaging system for capturing large-scale GCaMP activity at sub-cellular resolution in ex vivo retina. Following his work at Duke, Dr. Roy joined UCLA as a Project Scientist, where he led efforts to map cell type-specific pathways connecting the retina to the brain.

Dr. Roy’s lab at the Moran Eye Center studies visual processing across species, with a focus on neurodegeneration in glaucoma. By linking approaches in systems neuroscience with disease models, the lab seeks to identify genes and molecular pathways relevant for preserving and restoring vision.