Dr. Cheng’s mouse lens epithelial cells image is featured on Vector Labs as a festive holiday wreath. Happy holidays from the Cheng Lab, and wishing everyone a bright and wonderful 2021!

The Cheng lab is looking for a talented post-doctoral research fellow to join our eye lens research team. Applicants must have a Ph.D. by the start date of the job. More details can be found at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/10154. Inquiries can be sent to Dr. Cheng at ckcheng@iu.edu.   Research Associate Post Doc Ad Cheng 2020  

The Cheng Lab is hiring! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as a part-time or full-time lab technician in early 2021. The lab is funded by a NIH R01 grant through 2025. Learn more about the position at the links below or through jobs.iu.edu (job IDs: 292775 and 292773)! If you have… Read more »

If you missed Dr. Cheng’s Oxyopia talk on Friday, she is presenting her research again this week for the vision science seminar at the College of Optometry at The Ohio State University. Here are the details: Tuesday, November 10th at 12:00 PM EST https://osu.zoom.us/j/96058296080?pwd=MC9XNTdjMWQwcDVUN3V2dDdVTmxzZz09 Meeting ID: 960 5829 6080 Password: 523239   Please contact us if… Read more »

The next Oxyopia talk will be from our very own Dr. Catherine Cheng, Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Optometry. To attend the event, follow this link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/97860483446 Please email Dr. Cheng for the password: ckcheng@iu.edu   Title: The Eye Lens In Focus: Normal Aging and Age-related Pathologies Abstract:  The eye lens is an avascular, transparent,… Read more »

Congratulations to the Lachke lab at the University of Delaware on their new HMG paper investigating the function of RNA-granule component TDRD7 in the eye lens! We helped examine the change in lens fiber cell morphology caused by loss of TDRD7. Check out the paper at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32420594/

Congratulations to our own Jessica Palmer for winning the Student Innovator Award at IUSO this past Friday! This award was sponsored by MyEyeDr and Jobson’s Rick Bay Foundation for Excellence in Eyecare Education.

We just completed a multi-year, multi-lab aging study on the eye lens. Check out our results at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31844034

Vector Laboratories 2020 wall calendars are in! Photos from our lab are displayed for the months of August and October. Check it out: https://vectorlabs.com

We are pleased to announce a new member of our laboratory team – Edyth McEvilly. She will be working as a laboratory technician and manager. We are excited to begin working with you!