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.
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: 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 the optometry department in a few years!
Congratulations to Dr. Cheng on receiving the Cataract Research Award from the National Foundation For Eye Research (NFER) at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in Vancouver, Canada in May. The NFER is an organization dedicated to promoting to eye lens research and presents the international Cataract Research Award to lens researchers for their significant contributions to the field.
Dr. Cheng is pictured here (from left to right) with Dr. Peter Kador, president of the NFER, and her mentors, Dr. Velia M. Fowler and Dr. Xiaohua Gong. Dr. Fowler is currently the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Delaware, and Dr. Gong is a professor in the School of Optometry at UC Berkeley.
Check out pictures from our lab welcome party on Twitter, @ChengLabIU. Don’t forget to follow.