{"id":1425,"date":"2013-05-10T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-06-08T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:11:38","slug":"leung-lab-arvo-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/leung-lab-arvo-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Leung Lab @ ARVO 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia and Fai attended<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arvo.org\/Annual_Meeting\/\"> the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology<\/a> and presented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/research.html\">their work<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/bionews\/?p=994\">Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Travel Award<\/a> to attend the meeting. Sylvia and Fai also interacted with colleagues all over the world during different events including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seri.com.sg\/\">SERI<\/a> reception, ARVO dinner with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.ac.cn\/wzeye\/index.htm\">The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College<\/a>, and ARVO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/medint\/ovs\/dovs\/news.htm\">CUHK<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsiec.org\/en\/\">JSIEC <\/a>Research Networking Evening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1426\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC05490-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426\" title=\"Sylvia and Fai\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/819d4208901b931f3afb06a0d65d8bdd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia and Fai in front of Sylvia&#8217;s poster<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1452\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/0M7A6153-cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1452\" title=\"0M7A6153 cut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/0M7A6153-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture opportunity with the hosts of ARVO CUHK-JSIEC Research Networking Evening<br \/>From Left to Right: Yuk Fai Leung (Purdue), Prof. Mingzhi Zhang (Joint Shantou International Eye Center), and Prof. Calvin Pang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1453\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC03843-cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1453\" title=\"DSC03843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC03843-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We have got an opportunity to share the vision on using zebrafish for screening eye drugs in our JSIEC-Purdue Joint Laboratory with many distinguished guests from all over the world, including Dr. Mansoor Sarfarazi (U Conn), Dr. G Kumaramanickavel (Narayana Nethralaya), Dr. John Prakash (Associate Director, NEI), Dr. Martine Jager (Former ARVO president, Leiden University), Dr. Motokazu Tsujikawa (Osaka), Dr.Vincent Raymond (U Laval) , Dr. Kanxing Zhao (Zhongshan) and many more.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1454\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC03960-cut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1454\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1454\" title=\"DSC03960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC03960-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fai and Sylvia with Dr. Mingzhi Zhang (JSIEC), Dr. Haoyu Chen (JSIEC), Dr. John Prakash (NEI) and Mrs. Prakash.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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