The 7th annual GEMS event was a great time! Our lab, in conjunction with the Indiana University School of Optometry, were able to help educate the young minds about eye health and how the eye functions! The kids were so excited at the event and so are we for next year’s GEMS!
Last week, Dr. Huynh was the presenter for the Indiana University School of Optometry’s Oxyopia, a seminar whose purpose is to stimulate intellectual discourse among faculty and serve as a learning environment for the graduate students. His talk, titled “20,000 Leads Under the Sea: Lens Transparency and the Deadliest Cone”, provided new information from his research on the lens and also presented his doctoral work, repurposing cone snail venoms into therapeutic drugs. Great job with the engaging seminar!
At the end of 2023, Dr. Cheng and Dr. Huynh traveled to Hawaii and presented their work at the International Conference on the Lens! Everyone in attendance had great projects that we look forward to hearing about their progress next conference! Until then, check out Dr. Huynh receiving his NFER Young Investigator Travel Award below! ALOHA 2024!
We are excited to share that our new article which details how to faithfully preserve and immunostain fiber cells from the lens nucleus region for imaging, with quality that can rival scanning electron microscopy! The video protocol is available through this link: Mouse Lens Dissection and Processing to Study Fiber Cell Interdigitations and Membrane Architecture.
Thanks a bunch for help throughout the video editing process: JoVE Video Production Team and Lorenzo Jackson II!
We’re grateful for all the laughter, support, and learning that keeps the lab exciting! Thank you everyone!
On September 27th, Dr. Cheng celebrated her achievement of tenure alongside Dr. Nicholas Port’s promotion to full professor. Thank you Dr. Rowan Candy for coming to celebrate! Congratulations to all those promoted this year!
We recently celebrated Gryffin’s birthday this October! If you look overhead, you can see that tequila begins the spooky season early!
Thank you ThermoFisher for delivering some slices of fun! Not featured are the Mother Bear’s pizza boxes that we devoured before remembering to take a picture 🙂
Dr. Velia Fowler was named Borish Scholar from the IU School of Optometry at Oxyopia on September 22, 2023. Dr. Fowler has been awarded this title for her contributions to vision science and ophthalmic research. Dr. Cheng worked with Dr. Fowler as a post-doc and staff scientist while at Scripps Research in La Jolla. Congratulations Dr. Fowler!
