BIOL 5508
Offered Spring 2025
Course masters: Brian Clark, PhD and Philip Ruzycki, PhD
This course will introduce students to techniques used to study the visual system via discussions of foundational papers with experts who use these methods. Students will critically evaluate the literature to develop an understanding of the strengths and limitations of using these methods, which can then be used to plan experiments using these methods.
Methods discussed include:
- Single-cell omics
- Viral engineering
- Genome engineering
- Epigenetics
- Human genetics
- Electrophysiology
- In vivo imaging
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- AI and image processing
- Automated behavior tracking