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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!

We are pleased to welcome two new laboratory assistants – Jackson Clark and Jessica Palmer. We are excited to begin working with the both of you!

The time has come for our Aalaa Shahin, our IUSO Summer Dean’s Scholar student, to return to her studies.  It was a pleasure having you work in the lab this summer.  Best of luck in the upcoming school year!

It was fun hosting the high school students with the Focus on your Future… I can see Clearly Now summer program through the School of Optometry.  Dr. Cheng gave a lens dissection demonstration while Brad and Aalaa demonstrated immunofluorescence microscopy with lens sections on the confocal microscope.  We hope to see some familiar faces in… Read more »