July 12-23, 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
"Vision and the Eye"

The 2010 Teacher Workshop was two weeks long and was jointly funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Eye Institute, a division of NIH. The workshop was hosted by the Department of Biology and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
To obtain more information on this year's workshop go to http://scienceoftheeye.org/

A Wiki page has been created that includes a summary of each lecture as well as descriptions and pictures of the various experiments.

FACULTY LECTURES

Monday, July 12
Dr. Allen Taylor, Tufts Medical School

"Nutrition and Vision"                

Tuesday, July 13
Dr. James Doyle, Advanced Family Eye

"A Visit to the Optometrist"

Wednesday, July 14
Prof. Jonathan King, Dept. of Biology, MIT

"Crystallin Eye Lens Proteins"

Thursday, July 15

Prof. Aude Oliva, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"The Magic of Vision"

Monday, July 19

Prof. Jonathan King, Dept. of Biology, MIT

"The History of Science Education"

Tuesday, July 20

Prof. Pawan Sinha, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"Learning to See"

Wednesday, July 21
Dr. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab

"Eye Exam on a Cellphone Using a New Optical Probe"

Thursday, July 22
Prof. Mriganka Sur, Chair, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

"The Visual Cortex"

LABORATORY COURSES - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

• Cow eye dissection
• Creating an eye with common materials
• Identifying eye mutants using PCR and Restriction Length Polymorphisms (RFLP)
• Protein Chromatography of Gama crystallin
• Bioinformatics tool to study evolution of the eye
• STARGenetics
• Visual Illusions
• Color Vision and Color Blindness
• Bionic eye
• Model organisms for the study of vision and the eye
  Dr. Ishara Mills- Henry, program director, Science of the Eye Initiative, Department of Biology, MIT

• Fluorescence and UV Spectroscopy of Gama Crystallin

Kate Drahos,Department of Biology, MIT