Jillian New, Beichen Wang, and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 140th Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN. Jillian presented her work on “Evaluating Methotrexate as a Therapeutic Agent in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa“. Beichen presented his work on “A zebrafish functional screen identifies hits from FDA-approved drugs for inherited retinal degeneration”. All students were well fed.
Beichen Wang attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in New Orleans, LA from 2023-04-23 to 27. He gave an oral presentation on “A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa”.
We ate well to hibernate before the winter storm hit us!
Our lab has started to travel again after several years of hiberation due to COVID. The first trip we recent had was to attend the Heartland Vision Science Symposium at the Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine. We met many old and new friends. Beichen presented his current project to the audience. His talk’s title was “In vivo drug screening for night blindness using zebrafish visual behaviour”.
On 8/1/2019, Truc Kha presented her research work on retinitis pigmentosa, a form of retinal degeneration, at the SURF Research Symposium.
Truc presenting her research work on retinal degeneration.
I was invited by Prof. Chunqiao Liu to visit ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-Sen University from 2019-05-27 to 05-29.
Zhongshan Opthalmic Center. They have two beautiful buildings: one for clinical service, and another one for research.
The clinical building has more than 20 floors! The research building also has 10 floors!
What a great view at the top of the clinical building!
I had a great interaction with Prof. Liu’s group and many other professors in the institute. They are doing top-notch research work!
Profs. Chunqiao Liu and Yuk Fai Leung
I gave a seminar on our drug discovery using zebrafish to colleagues at ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center.
At Purdue, five zebrafish laboratories (Qing Deng, Daniel Suter, Yuk Fai Leung, David Umulis, Guangjun Zhang) have a joint lab meeting called FLAME (zebraFish LAb MEeting). We not only meet regularly to discuss science, but we also have fun together. On 5/13/2019, we concluded another productive year by hiking together at the Turkey Run State Park.
The FLAME group
The Flame Group
Fai leading the younger generation.
Logan climbing up the (academic) ladder.
Fai and Isaac!
Emre attended the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference 2019 and presented a poster entitled “Investigating Inhibition of Apoptosis as a Novel Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa using a Transgenic Zebrafish Model”.
Emre presenting his work at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference.
