The Neuroscience of Hearing and Vision Course Content | Hearing & Vision Sciences Graduate Certificate

Date	Topic	Lecturer
Week 1	Introduction, Course Syllabus, Introduction (Biology of Vision)	AI Diri/St. Leger
Week 1	Ocular Anatomy	Lathrop
Week 1	Cornea	Yun
Week 2	No Class–Labor Day
Week 2	Eye Movements and Visual Perception	Mayo
Week 2	Grant Writing Part I: Broad Overview	Kinchington
Week 3	Corneal Sensation and Innervation	St. Leger
Week 3	Visual Cortical Prosthetics	Chen
Week 3	Grant Writing Part II: Coming up with a compelling idea	Behrmann
	Quiz 1
Week 4	I2EYE Conference https://www.accelevents.com/e/i2eye2024	Multiple lectures
Week 4	Retina	Wei
Week 4	Grant Writing Part III: Writing a specific Aims page	AI Diri/St. Leger
Week 5	Optics	Rossi
Week 5	Machine Learning/AI in Ophthalmology	Bollepalli/Vupparboina
Week 5	Subcortical and Cortical Vision	Herman
Week 6	Retinal Imaging	Rossi
Week 6	Visual computations in cortex yield meaningful perception	Behrmann
Week 6	Fovea diversity and Development	Da Silva
Week 7	Retinal Diseases	Eller
Week 7	Gene Therapy	Byrne
Week 7	Optic Nerve Regeneration	Kuwajima
	Quiz 2
Week 8	Principles of Sound	Brown
Week 8	Anatomy of External/Middle/Inner Ear	Cunningham
Week 9	No Class
Week 9	Inner Ear Development	McGovern
Week 9	Cochlear Mechanics	Bharadwaj
Week 9	Ocular Biomechanics	Sigal
Week 10	Hair cells–Mechanotransduction and protein trafficking	Cunningham
Week 10	Support cells/Hair cell regeneration	McGovern
Week 10	Ethics of Image Processing	Lathrop
	Quiz 3
Week 11	Peripheral auditory neurons, ribbon synapses and connections to CNS	Rubio
Week 11	Auditory Nerve Encoding	Parthasarathy
Week 11	TBD	Ash
Week 12	Auditory Brainstem Structure/Function	Zhao
Week 12	Auditory Midbrain Structure and Function	Mellot, NEOMED
Week 12	TBD	TBD
Week 13	Auditory Cortex Structure and Function	Williamson
Week 13	Cortical mechanisms underlying processing of complex sounds	Sadogopan
Week 13	TBD	Betegon
	Quiz 4
	No Class Thanksgiving Break
Week 14	Auditory cortical circuits involved in behavior	Insanally
Week 14	Statistical models of Hearing and Vision Research	Williamson
Week 14	No Class