Vision Scientific study of the visual system has always been heavily influenced by the perspective of bioengineering. The visual system is uniquely suited to an engineering approach because visual stimuli are easily quantified, and the the anatomy provides ready access to both the transducers (the retina) and the primary processing area (occipital cortex). For these reasons almost all classical and modern bioengineering tools can be applied to the visual system, and new experimental and mathematical techniques are constantly being developed in this area. Thus, this system provides a range of exciting opportunities for the motivated bioengineer: diagnostic instrumentation; minimally invasive surgical methods; engineered molecules to halt or reverse the course of disease; modeling of the cornea or other ocular tissue; studies of sensory coding; quantitative modeling of neuronal function; large-scale computer simulations of sensory networks; development of visual prostheses; modeling and analysis of eye movement control systems and accommodative changes; control-systems analysis of mechanisms of attention and intention; functional imaging of brain activity. Nearly a dozen different laboratories at UCSF and UCB offer chances to participate in cutting-edge research on vision. Vision faculty in the Graduate Group: Martin Banks, UCB, Core Member Biomedical Imaging; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Brian Barsky, UCB, Affiliate Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Vision David R. Copenhagen, UCSF, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Yang Dan, UCB, Core Member Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Ralph D. Freeman, UCB, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Jack Gallant, UCB, Core Member Biomedical Imaging; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Xiaohua Gong, UCB, Core Member Tissue Engineering; Vision Don L. Jewett, UCSF, Affiliate Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Stanley Klein, UCB, Core Member Biomedical Imaging; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Luke Lee, UCB, Core Member Biomaterials; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Dennis Levi, UCB, Affiliate Vision Stephen Lisberger, UCSF, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Michael M. Merzenich, UCSF, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Austin Roorda, UCB, Affiliate Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical Instrumentation; Vision Philip Sabes, UCSF, Core Member Biomechanics; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Julie Schnapf, UCSF, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Clifton Schor, UCB, Affiliate Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Michael Silver, UCB, Affiliate Biomedical Imaging; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision David Sretavan, UCSF, Core Member Biomedical Instrumentation; BioMEMS, Nanotechnology, Robotics; Neural Systems Analysis; Tissue Engineering; Vision Michael Stryker, UCSF, Core Member Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics; Biomedical Imaging; Neural Systems Analysis; Vision Frank Werblin, UCB, Core Member Vision