Mia Tsou attended the 2026 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference at Purdue University. She presented a poster on “Defining the Treatment Period for Drug Screening in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa”. Her presentation received a High Distinction Award.
Mia Tsou attended the 141st Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN, on March 21, 2026. She gave an oral presentation on “Defining the Treatment Period for Drug Screening in Zebrafish Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa”.
On 11/25/2025, Beichen earned his doctorate following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Discovering New Drugs for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Machine Learning Analysis of Zebrafish Visual Behavior.”
Beichen’s commencement ceremony took place on 21 December 2025. We wish him every success in his career and a bright future ahead.
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”.
