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News2023-06-06 – 07-19 Beichen Wang attended the Neurobiology: Mechanisms & Advanced Approaches Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA. He received a fellowship from the MBL, and special travel awards from our department, the college of science and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience for attending this course. Congratulations Beichen! 2023-05-08 Isaiah Jr. Osei Duah joined us as a graduate student. Welcome Isaiah! 2023-04-27 Sophia Dietz received a 2023 Bruce Helfert Memorial Award. Congratulations Sophia! 2023-04-23 – 27 Beichen Wang attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in New Orleans, LA. He gave an oral presentation on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa". [blog post] 2023-04-19 Beichen Wang attended the Inaugural Tyler Symposium 2023, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. He presented a poster on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa". 2023-03-18 Beichen Wang attended the 138th Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN. He gave an oral presentation on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa". 2023-02-07 Jillian New joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Jillian! 2022-08-05 Beichen Wang and Yuk Fai Leung attended the Heartland Vision Science Symposium at the Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine. Beichen gave an oral presentation on "In vivo drug screening for night blindness using zebrafish visual behaviour". [blog post] 2022-04-15 Beichen Wang attended the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Greater Indiana Chapter Society for Neuroscience and presented a poster on "In Vivo Drug Screening for Night Blindness using Zebrafish Visual Behavior." 2022-04-07 Beichen Wang and Yuk Fai Leung received a Drug Investigational Screening and Chemigenomics Facility Project Award from the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery for their project "In Vivo Drug Screening for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish Visual Behavior". Congratulations! 2021-09-28 Edson Ko Bautista joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Edson! 2021-09-25 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a talk on "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research" at the Foundation Fighting Blindness Fort Wayne Chapter Speaker Series. [Youtube] 2021-09-03 Sophia Dietz joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Sophia! 2021-07-01 Yuk Fai Leung and Dr. Daniel Suter's collaborative proposal on "A Zebrafish Drug Screening Platform for Axonal Regeneration" received a 2021 Indiana Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Award. Congratulations! 2021-06-01 Logan Ganzen, Rebecca James and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Drug Screening with Zebrafish Visual Behavior Identifies Carvedilol as a Potential Treatment for an Autosomal Dominant form of Retinitis Pigmentosa" was published by Scientific Reports! Congratulations! 2021-05-27 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on on "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research" at the Glick Eye Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. 2021-05-05 Yuk Fai Leung organized and moderated a Special Interest Group entitled "High-throughput assays in zebrafish for eye research and drug discovery" at the Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2021. He and several panelists, including Janey Wiggs from Mass Eye & Eye Infirmary, Breandan Kennedy from University College Dublin, Liyun Zhang from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Diane Slusarski from University of Iowa, presented and discussed their latest research with the zebrafish and eye-research community. |