[FUN_Mail] FW: Vision Lab Ideas
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From: Vilinsky, Ilya (vilinsia) [mailto:vilinsia at ucmail.uc.edu]
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Hi All,
We have a set of electroretinography labs published in JUNE that would be great as part of a vision lab.
Electroretinograms in Drosophila: a robust and genetically accessible electrophysiological system for the undergraduate laboratory. ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592731/ ) describes electroretinogram recording in Drosophila, which has the advantage of incorporating mutant lines that dramatically show the effects of changing molecular components of visual system function.
Electrophysiology Meets Ecology: Investigating How Vision is Tuned to the Life Style of an Animal using Electroretinography. ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521742/ ) describes ERG recording in a variety of wild- caught arthropods, allowing students to combine fieldwork, evolutionary ecology, and visual system electrophysiology.
A protocol for the latter (which also works for Drosophila) can also be found on the FUN conference material website:
http://funfaculty.org/conference_materials/2014%20-%20Ithaca/Presentations/Wild%20Eye%20ERG%20Protocol.pdf
We teach these methods in detail at the CrawFly workshop, which would be a great venue to learn these and other techniques in detail:
http://www.adinstruments.com/education/classroom-of-excellence
http://cdn.adinstruments.com/adi-web/brochures/Brochure-Crawdad-Neuroscience-Workshops-ADInstruments.pdf
Finally, if anyone is interested in these labs, please email me<mailto:ilya.vilinsky at uc.edu> (ilya.vilinsky at uc.edu<mailto:ilya.vilinsky at uc.edu>); I will be happy to send protocols, advice and encouragement!
Best,
-Ilya
Ilya Vilinsky, PhD
Director, Undergraduate Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Educator, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Cincinnati, 614 Rieveschl Hall
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 16:47:23 +0000
From: "Kozlowski, Dorothy" <DKOZLOWS at depaul.edu<mailto:DKOZLOWS at depaul.edu>>
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Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for vision for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind spot demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
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Hi Dorothy
My colleague Bevil Conway has a website for his Vision and Art course
here:
http://academics.wellesley.edu/Neuroscience/Neuro320/index.html
I'm not super-familiar with it but you might find a lab or two that aren't
in your course already...
Cheers
Mike
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Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for vision
for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind spot
demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and
cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have
had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet
and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new
creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
--
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Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vincent de Paul Professor-
http://offices.depaul.edu/svdpp/Members/Pages/Dorothy-Kozlowski.aspx
DePaul University
President, Chicago Society for Neuroscience
http://www.chicagosfn.org
McGowan North 106
2325 N. Clifton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-2191
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Hi Dorothy,
I don't know whether this is too high level for the situation, but I have
done a lab component on binocular rivalry in my Sensation & Perception
class for years because it works very well and allows the students to
generate follow-up experiments in fairly short order. I had it distributed
at the FUN workshop in Pomona (because I thought everyone had to contribute
something). All it requires are some composite images that can be found
online (or generated by many students with software available in many
campus computer labs) and some red-green glasses (you can get paper
versions for pennies each).
You can contact me off list for the instructions I submitted to the
workshop all those years ago.
Ian
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fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for vision
for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind spot
demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and
cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have
had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet
and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new
creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
--
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Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vincent de Paul Professor-
http://offices.depaul.edu/svdpp/Members/Pages/Dorothy-Kozlowski.aspx
DePaul University
President, Chicago Society for Neuroscience
http://www.chicagosfn.org
McGowan North 106
2325 N. Clifton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-2191
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:16:47 -0800
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I’ve recorded electroretinograms from crayfish eyes using pin electrodes. That is really easy if you have a simple amplifier and recording set up. Really robust responses. Maybe test wavelength selectivity, or flicker fusion.
On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Kozlowski, Dorothy via FUN_Mail <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for vision for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind spot demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
--
Dorothy Kozlowski Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vincent de Paul Professor-http://offices.depaul.edu/svdpp/Members/Pages/Dorothy-Kozlowski.aspx
DePaul University
President, Chicago Society for Neuroscience
http://www.chicagosfn.org
McGowan North 106
2325 N. Clifton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-2191
http://csh.depaul.edu/departments/biological-sciences/faculty-and-staff/Pages/kozlowski-dorothy.aspx
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I do a color detection lab using the Visual Mills software. I've had two students over the last 12 years with color blindness make interesting case studies compared to the rest of the class but everyone usually finds some abnormalities.
http://www.aflash.com/aflash-visualmill.html
Best,
Dave
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Hi Dorothy,
I don't know whether this is too high level for the situation, but I have
done a lab component on binocular rivalry in my Sensation & Perception
class for years because it works very well and allows the students to
generate follow-up experiments in fairly short order. I had it distributed
at the FUN workshop in Pomona (because I thought everyone had to contribute
something). All it requires are some composite images that can be found
online (or generated by many students with software available in many
campus computer labs) and some red-green glasses (you can get paper
versions for pennies each).
You can contact me off list for the instructions I submitted to the
workshop all those years ago.
Ian
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Kozlowski, Dorothy via FUN_Mail <
fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for vision
for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind spot
demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and
cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have
had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet
and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new
creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
--
Dorothy Kozlowski Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vincent de Paul Professor-
http://offices.depaul.edu/svdpp/Members/Pages/Dorothy-Kozlowski.aspx
DePaul University
President, Chicago Society for Neuroscience
http://www.chicagosfn.org
McGowan North 106
2325 N. Clifton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-2191
http://csh.depaul.edu/departments/biological-sciences/faculty-and-staff/Pages/kozlowski-dorothy.aspx
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You can find complete instructions for a crayfish ERG experiment in my
online lab manual:
tinyurl.com/bio301
Look for Lab 6, "Electroretinogram of the crayfish eye." The lab has
students measure and plot the latency and amplitude of the ERG for
different light intensities, using strobes to generate flashes and neutral
density filters to control intensity. (Relative intensity is much easier to
control than wavelenth selectivity, where it is difficult to generate
stimuli at different wavelengths of equal photon densities).
best,
Richard
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Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College
Founding Editor, Educational Resources (ERIN), Society for Neuroscience
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Dr. James Murray Ph.D. via FUN_Mail <
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I’ve recorded electroretinograms from crayfish eyes using pin electrodes.
That is really easy if you have a simple amplifier and recording set up.
Really robust responses. Maybe test wavelength selectivity, or flicker
fusion.
On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:47 AM, Kozlowski, Dorothy via FUN_Mail <
fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Just reaching out to see if anyone has any suggestions on labs for
vision for upper level undergraduates. I do the cow eye dissection, blind
spot demonstration, as well as a small demo on the distribution of rods and
cones (I.e. What do they see first…the pen or color of the pen) and have
had the students analyze some visual illusions. I’ve scoured the internet
and ERIN but haven’t really found anything that’s much different. Any new
creative ideas out there? dkozlows at depaul.edu<mailto:dkozlows at depaul.edu>
Thanks
Dorothy
--
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Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vincent de Paul Professor-
http://offices.depaul.edu/svdpp/Members/Pages/Dorothy-Kozlowski.aspx
DePaul University
President, Chicago Society for Neuroscience
http://www.chicagosfn.org
McGowan North 106
2325 N. Clifton
Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-2191
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