Skip to content

Category Archives: lab activities

Leung Lab @ ARVO 2015

Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Denver, CO, from 5/3 – 5/7. Prahatha presented a poster entitled “Understanding the contribution of photoreceptors to the visual motor response”. Lue Xiang, a former visiting scholar in the laboratory, also attended the […]

Leung Lab @ 2015 Purdue Spring Fest

Week – 1 in MBL : Genomics Bootcamp

Saturday, June 14th marked the end of my first week at Woods Hole (I apologize for the late post). It was certainly a genomics bootcamp! In just one week, we learnt to dissect the ventral nerve chords from 3rd instar Drosophila larvae, extracted RNA, did microarrays, analyzed data and came up with hypotheses of what […]

My trip to Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA.

Lipid synthesis, stem cells, CRISPR, cell differentiation, coffee, faculty life in Puerto Rico, softball, ion channels, PhD in Europe, ball room dancing, buying a house in seattle, Epilepsy, larval Drosophila brain dissection – that’s an eclectic mix of topics to talk about for one day and this is not even an exhaustive list! These topics […]

Leung Lab Comic 1

A fun comic about everyday happenings in the Leung lab.

Leung Lab’s Christmas Party 2013

The members of the Leung Lab gathered to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays on 12/6/2013. Here are some pictures (Courtesy of Lue Xiang).

When you are away from your office for a little while …

you may get a pleasant surprise when you come back! It looks like that a Christmas/New Year ritual has been established in the lab….

Leung Lab @ ARVO 2013

Sylvia and Fai attended the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and presented their work on novel signal transduction for photoreceptor development and using traditional Chinese medicine to treat retinal degeneration. Sylvia received a National Eye Institute Travel Grant and Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Travel Award to attend the […]

When you are away for Christmas…

you may get a pleasant surprise when you come back!

2012 Christmas Party

A highlight of a memorable evening!