This page has material for the block course for 5th semester biology students.

This part of the course is taught by Tobi Delbruck and is about biological and silicon retinas.

The teaching assistants for 2014 are Chenghan Li and Minhao Yang.

This part of the course will start on Tuesday 1pm.

• Block Course Assignment.
• You report should be submitted using the following upload link: https://www.hightail.com/u/tobidelbruck1158659
• Report must be submitted a day before the next part of the block course.

• Lecture slide handouts

• The physiologist's Friend chip
• The dynamic vision sensor (DVS) silicon retina

• S.C. Liu, T. Delbruck, (2011) Neuromorphic Sensory Systems, Current Opinions in Neurobiology, 20:1-8, themed issue on Sensory Systems, edited by Kevan Martin and Kristin Scott. DOI 10.1016/j.conb.2010.03.007
• T. Delbruck, S.C. Liu. (2004), A silicon visual system as a model animal, Vision Research, vol. 44, issue 17, pp. 2083-2089.
  All about the Physiologist's Friend Chip.

These links are starting points.

• News about implantable telescope for macular degeneration - cool idea to move central vision to the surviving periphery.
• News about Retina Implant meeting, Berlin 2009
• Optobionics - one of the original implant companies, went bankrupt and being revived.
• Second Sight Inc. - one of the biggest retina implant companies, based in California.
• Retina Implant AG - another big implant consortium, based in Germany.