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Older News[ 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 ] Beichen Wang and Yuk Fai Leung received a 2024 Clinical & Translational Science (CTS) Grant from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) on " Improving Drug Discovery Efficiency for Retinal Degeneration by Functional Drug Screening". Congratulations! 2023-12-04 Beichen Wang gave a guest lecture entitled "Retinitis Pigmentosa and Drug Discovery Using Zebrafish" in Dr. Patrick Kerstein's HSCI336–Eye Physiology and Disease. 2023-11-14 Sophia Dietz attended the 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo at Purdue University. She presented a poster on "Is a cure already out there? Repurposing an FDA-approved drug for night blindness in zebrafish model." Her presentation won a 3rd Place Poster Award in the College of Science. Congratulations, Sophia! 2023-10-30 Beichen Wang's thesis research was featured on our departmental website. 2023-10-06 Beichen Wang attended the 8th Annual Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery Symposium at Purdue University. He presented a poster on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa." 2023-09-08 Beichen Wang attended the 2023 Annual Meeting for the Greater Indiana Chapter Society for Neuroscience at Purdue University. He presented a poster on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa." 2023-06-06 – 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! 2023-04-27 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! 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! 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. 2021-01 Claire Slough joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Claire! Prahatha Venkatraman, Menna Hassan and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Rods contribute to Visual Behaviour in Larval Zebrafish" was published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Congratulations! [Departmental news] 2020-07 Yuk Fai Leung participated in a research team led by Dr. Daniel Suter. They received an R01 from the NIH to study "Regulation of axonal growth and guidance by NADPH oxidase". 2020-05 Yuk Fai Leung participated in a research team led by Dr. Daniel Suter. They successfully competed for a Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience Grand Challenges in Neuroscience Award to study "Axonal Regeneration Following Injury: Mechanisms and Treatments". 2020-05-26 Emre Coskun won a 2020 Singleton Award from the Department of Biological Sciences. This award recognizes undergraduate research and the completion of an outstanding senior thesis. Congratulations Emre! 2020-05-11 Beichen (BC) Wang joined us as a graduate student. Welcome Beichen! 2020-04-14 – 21 Truc Kha and Emre Coskun presented at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference 2020. Truc presented her research on "Characterizing Disease Progression for Night Blindness in the Zebrafish Model, whereas Emre presented his research on "Investigating Inhibition of Apoptosis as a Novel Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa using a Transgenic Zebrafish Model". Truc's presentation also won the 2nd place poster for the College of Science. Congratulations! 2020-04-08 Logan Ganzen defended his thesis and became Dr. Ganzen. Congratulations Dr. Ganzen! 2019-11-11 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to become an Associate Editor in Molecular Medicine, a specialty section of Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2019-10-23 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research" in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2019-10-19 – 23 Logan Ganzen attended the Neuroscience 2019 and presented a poster on "Drug screening utilizing the visual behavior of a night blindness zebrafish model". 2019-10-01 Logan Ganzen was invited to give a seminar at Konkuk Univerisity on finding new drugs for retinal degeneration. 2019-09-21 – 25 Logan Ganzen attended the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) 10th Quadrennial World Congress in Daegu, Korea and presented a poster on finding new drugs for retinal degeneration. 2019-09-17 Logan Ganzen received a Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Award to support his attendance at the International Brain Research Organization 10th Quadrennial World Congress in Daegu, Korea from 9/21 to 9/25. Congratulations Logan! 2019-08-19 Emre Coskun published his research as a snapshot article in the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Emre! 2019-08-01 Truc Kha presented her summer research at the SURF Research Symposium. Pictures of her presentation. 2019-08-01 Logan Ganzen received a travel grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience to attend the Neuroscience 2019 from October 19 to 23. Congratulations! 2019-05-31 Emre Coskun and Rebecca James were each awarded with a Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research. They were also nominated to become an associate member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. Congratulations Emre and Becca! See departmental news here. 2019-05-27 – 29 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to visit ZhongShan Ophthalmic Center at Sun Yat-Sen University, and lectured on "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research". See pictures of the visit here. 2019-05-03 – 2019-05-07 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Vancouver, Canada. Logan presented a poster. 2019-04-09 Emre Coskun attended the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference and presented a poster entitled "Investigating Inhibition of Apoptosis as a Novel Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa using a Transgenic Zebrafish Model". See pictures on our blog post. 2019-04-05 Truc Kha received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from Purdue University. Congratulations Truc! 2019-04-03 Logan Ganzen received an IBRO World Congress Travel Grant to attend the 10th IBRO World Congress, Daegu, South Korea from 21 to 25 September 2019. Congratulations Logan! 2019-03-30 Emre Coskun, Rebecca James, Logan Ganzen, Truc Kha and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 134th Annual Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Science in Indianapolis, IN. Emre presented a poster entitled "Investigating Inhibition of Apoptosis as a Novel Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa using a Transgenic Zebrafish Model"; Becca presented a poster entitled "Utilization of a Zebrafish Visual Motor Response Assay to Discover FDA Approved Drugs to Treat Retinitis Pigmentosa"; Logan gave an oral presentation on finding an FDA-approved drug that can potentially treat retinitis pigmentosa. See pictures on our blog post. 2019-03-29 Logan Ganzen was selected as the recipient of the BIOL 2019 TA Honorable Mention Award by the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Congratulations Logan! 2019-02-22 Logan Ganze, Emre Coskun and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "A critical evaluation of TRPA1-mediated locomotor behavior in zebrafish as a screening tool for novel anti-nociceptive drug discovery." was published in Scientific Report. This study is a collaboration between Logan and Mee Jung Ko in Richard van Rijin's lab. Congratulations everyone! 2019-02-15 Yuk Fai Leung received a "Best Lecture Memes" award from the first-year medical students, class of 2022, at the 20th Annual Spring Celebration Dinner of the Indiana University School of Medicine—West Lafayette. The students acknowledged Fai for his effective teaching of molecular and cellular medicines, sharing of mnemonic tricks, and great humor throughout the course. 2019-02-15 Yuk Fai Leung, Prahatha Venkatraman, Gaonan Zhang, Robert Carmer and Skylar Kantola's paper on "Normalization of large-scale behavioural data collected from zebrafish" was published in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! 2018-11-12 Emre Coskun attended the Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Exposition and presented a poster of his undergraduate reserarch work on "A Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-Mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery". See the blog post of this event here. 2018-11-10 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2018 Sensorium at Purdue University. Logan gave a talk on "Drug Screening and Hit Identification for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish". See the blog post of this event here. 2018-10-16 Suma Chinta and Menchus Quan joined us rotation students. Welcome Suma and Menchus! 2018-09-28 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 5th Annual Drug Discovery Symposium at Purdue University. Fai gave a talk on "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research". Logan presented a poster on "Drug Screening and Hit Identification for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish". 2018-08-20 Truc Kha joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Truc! 2018-08-06 Xiaoguang Zhu joined us as our Project Coordinator. Welcome Xiaoguang! 2018-06-27 Yuk Fai Leung's article on "nox2/cybb deficiency affects zebrafish retinotectal connectivity" was published by the Journal of Neuroscience. 2018-06-03 – 2018-07-29 Logan Ganzen attended the Neural Systems & Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). He received a scholarship from the MBL and a Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Travel Award from the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University to attend this course. 2018-05-13 Yuk Fai Leung's article on "nox2/cybb deficiency affects zebrafish retinotectal connectivity" was accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience. 2018-05-11 Yuk Fai Leung received a research grant from the Purdue Research Foundation to support Logan Ganzen's research on characterizing a positive compound for treating Retinitis Pigmentosa that he recently identified. 2018-05-11 Yuk Fai Leung received an Outstanding Professor of Basic Science Award at the Senior Awards Program of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Class of 2018. 2018-04-28 – 2018-05-03 Logan Ganzen attended the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Honolulu, HI. He presented a poster entitled "Drug Screening and Hit Identification for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish". 2018-04-27 Yuk Fai Leung contributed to an article entitled "Mutation of IPO13 causes recessive ocular coloboma, microphthalmia and cataract". It was published by Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 2018-04-27 Emre Coskun was selected as a recipient for the Office of Undergraduate Research Scholarship for 2018-19. Congratulations Emre! 2018-04-26 Logan Ganzen was awarded an Outstanding TA award from the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Congratulations Logan! 2018-04-19 – 21 Logan Ganzen attended the Translational Science 2018 in Washington, DC. He presented a poster entitled "Zebrafish as a Tool for Rapid, In Vivo Drug Discovery for Retinitis Pigmentosa." 2018-04-18 Logan Ganzen was awarded 2018 Purdue University Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student in Teaching Award. Congratulations Logan! 2018-03-26 Logan Ganzen and Emre Coskun were scheduled to present at the 133rd Annual Academy Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, USA. The trip was canceled due to severe weather. Logan was going to give an oral presentation entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model". Emre was going to present a poster entitled "A pharmacological model of TRPA1-mediated nociception in the zebrafish for therapeutic discovery". 2018-03-01 Logan Ganzen presented a poster at "The Health and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture and Policy" at Purdue University. He won a poster award in Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases category. Congratulations Logan! 2018-02-20 Yuk Fai Leung contributed to an article entitled "Mutation of IPO13 causes recessive ocular coloboma, microphthalmia and cataract". It was accepted by Experimental & Molecular Medicine. 2018-01-17 Rebecca James joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Rebecca! 2017-12-12 Liyun Zhang, Gaonan Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung published an article entitled "Expression profiling of the retina of pde6c, a zebrafish model of retinal degeneration" in Scientific Data. Congratulations! 2017-11-17 – 19 Menna Hassan attended the Region IV Fall Conference 2017 organized by the National Society of Black Engineers in Milwaukee, WI. She presented her research with us during her high-school period. The title was "Effects of epigallocatechin gallate on photoreceptor degeneration zebrafish model assessed by visual behavior". 2017-10-24 Liyun Zhang, Gaonan Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung's article entitled "Expression profiling of the retina of pde6c, a zebrafish model of retinal degeneration" was accepted by Scientific Data. Congratulations! 2017-10-11 Logan Ganzen attended Institute for Drug Discovery 4th Annual Symposium organized by the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery at Purdue University. He gave a talk entitled "Zebrafish and Drug Screening for Retinal Degeneration". 2017-09-27 Logan Ganzen attended 2017 Gill Symposium at the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He presented a poster entitled "A Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery". 2017-09-23 Logan Ganzen attended Sensorium 2017 at the University of Cincinnati. He presented a poster entitled "Zebrafish as a tool for rapid, in vivo drug discovery for night blindness". 2017-09-11 – 12 Yuk Fai Leung was invited by a steering committee in the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health to attend a workshop on "Zebrafish and Other Fish Models: Description of Extrinsic Environmental Factors for Rigorous Experiments and Reproducible Results". The workshop brought together a group of approximately 30 stakeholders including researchers, facility mangers, veterinarians and journal editors. Their goal was to formulate community guidelines on a minimal set of environmental conditions which need to be presented in publications to ensure rigor and robustness of experiments, and reproducibility of outcomes. During the workshop, Fai gave a talk on "Data, Data Collection and Data sharing". 2017-08-18 Yuk Fai Leung received a Research Grant from the International Retinal Research Foundation for his proposal entitled "Evaluation of New Drugs for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish". Congratulations! 2017-06-27 – 07-01 Yuk Fai Leung attended the Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. See pictures of this event. 2017-06-07 Yuk Fai Leung, Paige Cassidy, Robert Carmer, Gaonan Zhang, Prahatha Venkatraman and Skye Brown published an article entitled "Statistical Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotor Behaviour by Generalized Linear Mixed Models" in Scientific Reports. Congratulations! 2017-06-02 Logan Ganzen, Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung published a review article entitled "Utilizing Zebrafish Visual Behaviors in Drug Screening for Retinal Degeneration" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Congratulations! See departmental news. 2017-05-27 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung were invited to attend the International Conference of Vision & Eye Research, Hong Kong. See pictures of this event. 2017-05-24 – 26 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung were invited to visit Dr. Zibing Jin's group at the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Fai outlined our lab's research program on discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research. Logan presented a talk entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model". Fai also served as an external examinar in the oral defence of six master students. See pictures of this visit. 2017-05-22 – 23 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung were invited to visit the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wai Kit Chu from this department and Fai organized a "CUHK Ophthalmic Research Centre Joint Symposium" and invited local experts in ophthalmology and neuroscience to share our latest research findings with each other. Fai outlined our lab's research program on discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research. Logan presented a talk entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model". See pictures of this visit. 2017-05-22 Our zebrafish research was featured in an educational science video on youtube by Inés Laura Dawson from Draw Curiosity. See departmental news. 2017-05-16 – 17 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung were invited to visit the Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University School of Medicine. They also discuss research programs with collaborator Dr. Motokazu Tsujikawa. In particular, Logan presented a talk entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model". See pictures of this visit. 2017-05-07 – 11 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Baltimore, MD. Logan presented a poster entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model". They also attended several gathering with fellow researchers over the world. See pictures of this trip. 2017-04-20 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar "Discover new drugs for retinal degeneration by zebrafish research" at the Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arber, MI, USA. 2017-04-19 – 21 Logan Ganzen attended the Translational Science 2017 organized by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science in Washington, DC. He presented a poster entitled "A Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model for Drug Discovery". 2017-04-19 Yuk Fai Leung, Paige Cassiday, Robert Carmer, Gaonan Zhang, Prahatha Venkatraman and Skye Brown's paper "Statistical Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotor Behaviour by Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed Models." is accepted by Scientific Reports. Congratulations! 2017-04-14 Yuk Fai Leung received a "Nothing Is New Under The Sun" award from the first-year medical students, class of 2020, at the Indiana University School of Medicine—West Lafayette. They acknowledged Fai for his effective teaching of essential knowledge on molecular and cellular medicines, sharing of mnemonic tricks, and great humor throughout the course. Even though these students had to study so many topics, they realized that these topics were unified by a coherent principle through Fai's teaching, and "nothing is new under the sun". In the end, they could study with ease. This award was presented at the 18th Annual Spring Celebration Dinner of the Indiana University School of Medicine—West Lafayette. 2017-04-08 Prahatha Venkatraman, Logan Ganzen, and Khaled Noui-Mehidi demonstrated zebrafish research at the 2017 Purdue Spring Fest. Pictures of this event. 2017-04-05 Prahatha Venkatraman was awarded a 2017 Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation. Congratulations Prahatha! News coverage. 2017-04-04 Logan Ganzen was awarded a Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award by the Purdue Teaching Academy and the Office of the Provost at Purdue University. Congratulations Logan! News coverage. 2017-03-25 Khaled Noui-Mehidi, Emre Coskun and Logan Ganzen attended the 132nd Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. Khaled presented his research work as a poster. Both Khaled and Emre were supervised by graduate student Logan Ganzen. Pictures of this event. 2017-02-15 Logan Ganzen was awarded a Neuroscience Collaborative Research Fund from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience for his proposal entitled "A Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery". This is a collaborative project with Mee Jung Ko, a graduate student with Dr. Richard Van Rijn from the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. Congratulations Logan! News coverage. 2017-02-02 Logan Ganzen was awarded a Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Travel Award for his attendance of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).Congratulations Logan! News coverage. 2017-01-25 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung were awarded a Survery Fund from the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery for their proposal entitled “In Vivo Drug Screening for Retinitis Pigmentosa with Zebrafish”. Congratulations Logan and Fai! News coverage. 2017-01-23 Logan Ganzen was invited to give a PULSe Seminar entitled "Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model: A Tool for Drug Discovery" 2017-01-18 Yuk Fai Leung will edit a Research Topic, a review series that will be published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. The title of the Research Topic is "CRISPR/Cas9 Editing and its Use in Eye Development and Disease Study" 2017-01-03 Emre Coskun joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Emre! 2016-11-12 – 16 Prahatha Venkatraman attended the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and presented a poster. 2016-11-07 Yuk Fai Leung's research was featured on the Croucher Foundation News. He was a Croucher Foundation Fellow from 2002 to 2004. 2016-10-04 Yuk Fai Leung gave a faculty seminar in the Neuroscience Research Area of the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. 2016-09-30 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the Institute for Drug Discovery 3rd Annual Symposium at Purdue University. Fai highlighted current lab research on finding new drugs for retinal degeneration through our zebrafish research. 2016-09-07 Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Molecular evolution of MDM1, a 'duplication-resistant' gene in vertebrates." was accepted by PLOS ONE. This is a collaborative project with GuangJun Zhang. Congratulations! 2016-08-07 – 12 Prahatha Venkatraman attended the Gordon Research Conference Visual System Development and presented a poster. 2016-07-20 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar "Discover New Drugs for Retinal Degeneration by Zebrafish Research" at the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Pictures of this visit. 2016-07-18 – 19 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to visit Dr. Zibing Jin's group at the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. He gave two talks during his visit: a research seminar on "Use Zebrafish Research to Discover New Drugs for Rod Degeneration", and a writing workshop on "Effective Scientific Communication". Pictures of this visit. 2016-05-25 Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Evolutionary and developmental analysis reveals KANK genes were co-opted for vertebrate vascular development" was accepted by Scientific Reports. This is a collaborative project with GuangJun Zhang. Congratulations! 2016-05-23 Timothy Duh, a first year medical student from the Indiana University School of Medicine—Lafayette, joined us as a summer research student. Welcome Tim! 2016-05-16 Logan Ganzen was awarded a CTSI Predoctoral Award in Translational Research. Congratulations Logan! See departmental news. 2016-05-01 – 05 Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Seattle, WA. Fai presented a poster entitled "Morphometric analysis of photoreceptors in the zebrafish pde6c mutant with and without exposure to Schisandrin B". 2016-04-23 Yuk Fai Leung gave a guest lecture "Graduate School and Career Planning" in BIOL293 sophomore seminar class. 2016-04-16 – 17 Prahatha Venkatraman, Logan Ganzen, Paige Cassidy, Khaled Noui-Mehidi and Menna Hassan demonstrated zebrafish research at the 2016 Purdue Spring Fest. Pictures and a video of this event. 2016-04-12 Paige Cassidy presented her research work at the Purdue University Undergraduate Research Symposium. She was supervised by Prahatha Venkatraman, a graduate student in the laboratory and a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for Future Fellow. Picture of her presentation. 2016-04-11 Sylvia Bonilla defended her graduate research work and graduated. Congratulations Dr. Bonilla! Pictures of the defence and celebration party. 2016-04-04 Prahatha Venkatraman was awarded a 2016 Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation. Congratulations Prahatha! See departmental news. 2016-04-04 Menna Hassan participated in the 28th Annual Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair, and presented her research work on zebrafish visual behaviour. 2016-03-26 Menna Hassan, Patrick Tiffany, Ryan Wyer and Khaled Noui-Mehidi presented their research at the 131st Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. They were supervised by graduate students Prahatha Venkatraman and Logan Ganzen. Pictures of this event. 2016-03-25 Logan Ganzen was awarded with a Graduate School Summer Research Grant by Purdue University. Congratulations Logan! 2016-03-04 Menna Hassan participated in the Lafayette Regional Science & Engineering Fair and won two awards: (1) a bronze medal under the Animal Science category in the Seniors division, and (2) a blue ribbon. Congratulations! By winning the latter award, she is ranked in the top ten students of the Fair and has been invited to participate in the State Science Fair. She conducted her zebrafish research under the supervision of Prahatha Venkatraman, a graduate student in the laboratory and a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for Future Fellow. Pictures of Menna's presentation. 2016-03-01 Liyun Zhang, Xiang Lue, Prahatha Venkatraman, Leelyn Chong, Jin Cho, Sylvia Bonilla and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "A naturally-derived compound Schisandrin B enhanced light sensation in the pde6c zebrafish model of retinal degeneration" was published by PLOS ONE. Congratulations! 2016-02-04 Liyun Zhang, Xiang Lue, Prahatha Venkatraman, Leelyn Chong, Jin Cho, Sylvia Bonilla and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "A naturally-derived compound Schisandrin B enhanced light sensation in the pde6c zebrafish model of retinal degeneration" was accepted by PLOS ONE. Congratulations! 2016-02-01 Gaonan Zhang, Robert Carmer, Prahatha Venkatraman, Skye Brown and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Computational classification of different wild-type zebrafish strains based on their variation in light-induced locomotor response" was published by Computers in Biology and Medicine. Congratulations! See departmental news coverage here. 2016-01-11 William Salloom joined us as a graduate rotation student. Welcome William! 2016-01-11 Paige Cassidy joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Paige! 2015-11-24 Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Expression dynamics of NADPH oxidases during early zebrafish development" was accepted by the Journal of Comparative Neurology. This is a collaborative project with Cory Weaver and Daniel Suter. Congratulations! 2015-11-18 Gaonan Zhang, Robert Carmer, Prahatha Venkatraman, Skye Brown and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Computational classification of different wild-type zebrafish strains based on their variation in light-induced locomotor response" was accepted by Computers in Biology and Medicine. Congratulations! See departmental news coverage here. 2015-11-18 Prof. Ryan Thummel from the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and the Department of Ophthalmology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine gave a departmental seminar entitled "Characterization of Reactive Gliosis and Regeneration in the Adult Zebrafish Retina", and interacted with students from the Leung Lab. 2015-11-17 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a guest lecture entitled "Discover new eye drugs by zebrafish research" in BIOL44400 Human Genetics. 2015-10-31 Prahatha Venkatraman partcipated in the outreach day for local high school juniors and seniors, organized by the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. 2015-10-26 Mang Gao and Kaushik Muralidharan joined us as graduate rotation students. Welcome Mang and Kaushik! 2015-10-26 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to be an Associate Editor of Genetic Disorders, a specialty section of Frontiers in Pediatrics and Frontiers in Genetics. 2015-10-19–20 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to lead a two-day Genome Editing Seminar Course at the the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015-10-18 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar entitled "Discover new drugs for rod degeneration with zebrafish research" at the 2015 Symposium on Biology of Ophthalmology organized by the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Joint Shantou International Eye Center. The event took place at the Hong Kong Eye Hospital in Hong Kong. 2015-10-17 Prahatha Venkatraman attended the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicagao and presented a poster entitled "Understanding the contributions of photoreceptors to the visual motor response". Our collaborator Yiwen Liu from Dr. Ping Ma's group at the University of Georgia presented a poster entitled "Statistical analysis of zebrafish locomotor response". 2015-10-05 Robert Carmer, Gaonan Zhang, Prahatha Venkatraman, Skye Brown and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Statistical Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotor Behaviour" was published by PLOS ONE. Congratulations! See departmental news coverage here. 2015-09-28 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to be an Associate Editor of Systems Biology, a specialty section of Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology and Frontiers in Genetics. 2015-09-23 Robert Carmer, Gaonan Zhang, Prahatha Venkatraman, Skye Brown and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Statistical Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotor Behaviour" was accepted by PLOS ONE. Congratulations! 2015-09-02 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to be an Associate Editor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, a specialty section of Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Frontiers in Plant Science. 2015-09 Menna Hassan and Heera Vemaganti have joined us as a high-school research student and an undergraduate research student. Welcome Menna and Heera! 2015-08-28 Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2015 Corporate Affiliates Symposium--"Bioactives and Health" organized by Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University. Fai presented a poster "Discover eye benefit of naturally-derived compounds by zebrafish behavioural screening" to highlight the strengths of our laboratory research. 2015-06-14–19 Prahatha Venkatraman attended the Gordon Research Conference—Apoptotic Cell Recognition & Clearance in Biddeford, ME. She also received The Andrews-John Scott A. & the Ella A. Travel Award from the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University to attend this Conference. Congratulations Prahatha! 2015-06-12 Sylvia Bonilla and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "The chromatin remodeler chd5 is necessary for proper head development during embryogenesis of Danio rerio" was accepted by Biochimica et Biophysica Acta—Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. This is a collaborative project with Joe Ogas Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry. Congratulations! 2015-06-06 Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung led a Development and Disease Research Lab section in the 13th USA Biology Olympiad Finals at Purdue University and shared our lab research on eye drug discovery using the zebrafish model. The students also learned essential basic skills for zebrafish research. See pictures from our blog post. 2015-06-02 Duncan Wolff joined us as an undergraduate research student through the HHMI Undergraduate Research Experience. Welcome Duncan! 2015-05-27 Fernanda Borges joined us as an undergraduate research student through the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program. Welcome Fernanda! 2015-05-11 Logan Ganzen joined us as a graduate student. Welcome Logan! 2015-05-03 – 07 Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Denver, CO. 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 meeting and presented a poster entitled "Charaterization of a retinitis pigmentosa gene slc7a14 in zebrafish by expression analysis and targeted deletion with CRISPR-Cas". See our blog for pictures of the event. 2015-04-18 – 19 Prahatha Venkatraman, Martin Tian, Yuk Fai Leung, Sylvia Bonilla, Patrick Tiffany, and Meng She demonstrated zebrafish research in 2015 Purdue Spring Fest. See our blog for pictures of the event. 2015-04-14 Meng She presented her research work at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. 2015-04-12 Yuk Fai Leung was nominated to be a Favorite Faculty and was invited to attend the Inaugural Favorite Faculty Dinner at Purdue University. 2015-04-04 Prahatha Venkatraman won a 3-min thesis competition in the Biological Graduate Student Annual Retreat 2015. Congratulations Prahatha! 2015-04-02 Prahatha Venkatraman was chosen as part of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Honor Roll in the Department of Biological Sciences. Congratulations Prahatha! 2015-03-31 Prahatha Venkatraman was awarded a 2015 Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation. Congratulations Prahatha! 2015-03-21 Meng She, Zain Abedali, Martin Tian, Ryan Wyer, Sylvia Bonilla, Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 130th Annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. Meng, Zain and Martin presented a poster of their work. See our blog for the pictures of this event. 2015-03-18 Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung led an outreach zebrafish session with students from Jefferson high school in Lafayette. See our departmental news and our blog for the pictures of this event. 2015-01-30 Khaled Noui-Mehidi joined us as an undergradute resesearch student. Welcome Khaled! 2015-01-30 Yuk Fai Leung gave a guest lecture in BIOL293 Sophomore Seminar 2015-01-12 Mozhu Li joined us as a graduate rotation student. Welcome Mozhu! 2014-11-19 Yuk Fai Leung gave a guest lecture in SCI 29000-Interdisciplinary Science 2014-11-11 Yuk Fai Leung participated in the 4th Annual Research Roundtable, Purdue University 2014-11-10 Lama Alabdi joined us as a graduate rotation student. Welcome Lama! 2014-11-04 Yuk Fai Leung gave a guest lecture in BIOL 19700-Freshman honors seminar 2014-10-22 – 24 Prof. Motokazu Tsujikawa from the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Visual Regenerative Medicine at the Osaka University Medical School in Japan visited Purdue, Leung Lab, Indiana University School of Medicine - Lafayette, Bindley Bioscience Center and Drug Discovery Center. He also gave a departmental seminar on "Retinal degeneration research using zebrafish - from an ophthalmologist's perspective" during his visit. See pictures of the visit from our blog. 2014-10-20 Logan Ganzen joined us as a graduate rotation student. Welcome Logan! 2014-09-26 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar "Discover new eye drugs by zebrafish visual-behaviour assay" in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University. 2014-09-08 Mang Gao joined us as an undergradute resesearch student. Welcome Mang! 2014-07-25 Wan Jiang presented a poster in the HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program at Purdue University. 2014-06-30 Yuk Fai Leung's teaching in the IU School of Medicine - Lafayette was featured in an article entitled "Good Medicine – Purdue and IU Build on a Healthy Relationship Training Doctors” published in the spring edition of Insights Magazine by Purdue University College of Science. 2014-06-28 Wan Jiang presented a poster in the HHMI Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program at Purdue University. 2014-06-27 Prahatha Venkatraman's participation in the 2014 Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory 2014-06-09 Prahatha Venkatraman's successful application for a 2014 Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation was highlighted by Purdue News. 2014-06-07 – 08-03 Prahatha Venkatraman attended the Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. 2014-06-04 Yuk Fai Leung and Prahatha Venkatraman led a Development and Disease Research Lab section in the 12th USA Biology Olympiad Finals at Purdue University and shared our lab research on eye drug discovery using the zebrafish model. The students also learned essential basic skills for zebrafish research. See pictures from our blog post. 2014-06-01 Wan Jiang joined us as an HHMI summer undergraduate research student. Welcome Wan! 2014-05-30 Prof. Tim Corson from the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology at the Indiana University School of Medcine gave a departmental seminar on “Retinoblastoma and ocular angiogenesis: new mechanisms, targets, and compounds” and interacted with members from the Leung lab. 2014-05-30 Prahatha Venkatraman passed her prelminary examination. Congratulations Prahatha! 2014-05-19 Ryan Wyer joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Ryan! 2014-05-04 – 08 Yuk Fai Leung attended The ARVO Annual Meeting – Leading Eye and Vision Research organized by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in Orlando. He also gave a lecture at the JSIEC Lecture Dinner Meeting on 5/6. 2014-04-22 Yuk Fai Leung was awarded a J. Alfred & Martha Chiscon Undergraduate Teaching Award at the 2014 Department of Biological Sciences Awards & Recognition Program. 2014-04-22 Prahatha Venkatraman was recognized at the 2014 Department of Biological Sciences Awards & Recognition Program for the following achievements:
2014-04-22 Gaonan Zhang was recognized at the 2014 Department of Biological Sciences Awards & Recognition Program for his successful application for a William H. Phillips Summer Research Internship in 2013. Congratulations Gaonan! 2014-04-22 Zain Abedali and Patrick Tiffany were awarded a Biological Sciences Departmental Scholarship at the 2014 Department of Biological Sciences Awards & Recognition Program. Congratulations Zain and Patrick! 2014-04-11 Yuk Fai Leung was selected to be the Best Lecturer by the first year medical students of the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) - Lafayette, Class of 2017. The award was presented at the 15th Annual Spring Celebration Dinner of the IUSM-Lafayette. 2014-04-10 Prahatha Venkatraman was awarded a travel grant by the Purdue Women in Science Programs to attend the 2014 Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Congratulations Prahatha! See news coverage here. 2014-04-04 2014-03-28 Prahatha Venkatraman was awarded a 2014 Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation. Congratulations Prahatha! 2014-03-05 Prahatha Venkatraman was selected to participate in the 2014 Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Congratulations Prahatha! 2014-03-01 Leung lab's international collaboration programs with the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants and Joint Shantou International Eye Center in China were covered in an article "Chinese Medicinal Plants May Hold Key to New Retinal Degeneration Therapies" published in the Spring 2014 issue of Dimensions of Discovery by the Office of the Vice President for Research at Purdue University. 2014-01-28 Kavya Sankhavaram joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Kavya! 2014-01-23 Liyun Zhang, Sylvia Bonilla, Yuqing Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "p35 promotes the differentiation of amacrine cell subtype in the zebrafish retina under the regulation of egr1" was published by Developmental Dynamics. Congratulations! 2014-01-21 Liyun Zhang, Sylvia Bonilla and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "A high-throughput zebrafish screening method for visual mutants by light-induced locomotor response" was accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Congratulations! 2014-01-13 Zain Alabdeen Abedal and Martin Tian joined us as undergraduate research students. Welcome Zain and Martin! 2014-01-13 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel drug therapies for retinal degeneration” at the Center for Human Molecular Biology & Genetics, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, China [Chinese website of the Institute]. See the news coverage by the institute (in Chinese). (Blog entry pending). 2014-01-11 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel drug therapies for retinal degeneration” at the Symposium on the Latest Development of International Eye Research at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. See the news coverage by the institute (in Chinese). 2014-01-09 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Genome Editing Tools for Medicine” at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. 2014-01-08
Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Genome Editing Tools for Medicine”, at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2014-01-06 Liyun Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Expression profiling of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in zebrafish smarca4 mutant revealed altered signals that potentially affect RPE and retinal differentiation" was published by Molecular Vision. Congratulations! 2013-12-19 Our research program on using zebrafish to evaluate traditional Chinese medicines for good vision was covered by an article entitled "Chinese Medicinal Plants May Hold Key to New Vision Therapies" published in the Purdue University Center for Drug Discovery News Fall 2013. The article highlights our joint laboratory with the Joint Shantou International Eye Center and collaboration with the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants. These international programs allow us to pursue exciting drug investigations that may ultimately help eye disease patients around the world. 2013-12-18 Yingyi Liang joined us as an undergraduate research student. Welcome Yingyi! 2013-12-06 The Leung Lab gathered for a Christmas party to celebrate the holidays before the semester ends! (Blog entry pending). 2013-12-05 Yuk Fai Leung and Joe Ogas from Biochemistry received an R21 from the NCI for their proposal "Determination of the role of CHD5 tumor suppressor in the zebrafish model". 2013-12-04 Prof. Kwoon Wong from the Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan gave a departmental seminar on “Novel retinal photoreceptors and subconscious vision”. He also helped us to setup the instruments to record the electroretinogram of larval zebrafish during his visit. See blog post here. 2013-11-20 – 22 Prof. Mingzhi Zhang (Vice-Director) and Dr. Chukai Huang from the Joint Shantou International Eye Center visited our joint laboratory at Purdue [link 1][link 2] and research centers at Purdue to consolidate future collaborative plans on eye disease and drug discovery research. (Blog entry pending). 2013-11-19 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a departmental seminar on "High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish" in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. 2013-11-15 – 17 Sylvia Bonilla, Prahatha Venkatraman, Lue Xiang and Yuk Fai Leung attended the Biennial Departmental Retreat at the Swan Lake Resort. Sylvia and Prahatha presented in the poster session. 2013-11-09 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to join the Han Institute as an Advisory Board Member. 2013-11-09 – 13 Yuk Fai Leung attended and presented a poster in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2013. 2013-10-29 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to attend the Indiana-Zhejiang Investment and Trade Seminar at the Conrad Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. 2013-10-14 Yuk Fai Leung was interviewed by the Journal and Courier and shared his vision on using zebrafish for eye drug research in "Keeping an eye on fish advances Purdue professor's vision for future of sight". 2013-10-14 Lue Xiang from the Eye Hospital at Wenzhou Medical University joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome Lue! 2013-08-28 Liyun Zhang, Sylvia Bonilla, Yuqing Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "p35 promotes the differentiation of amacrine cell subtype in the zebrafish retina under the regulation of egr1" was accepted byDevelopmental Dynamics. Congratulations! 2013-08-06 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” at the Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. 2013-08-03 – 04 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to lecture on “Novel Therapies for Retinal Degeneration” & “Training of Research Students in Ophthalmology in USA” at the The 60th Anniversary of Shenyang 4th People’s Hospital & The 1st International Symposium of Ophthalmology – Shenyang Liaoning Mansion, Shenyang, China. He also chaired the 2nd Young Doctors and Research Students Forum in the same symposium. 2013-08-01 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” in the Department of Ophthalmology (English)(Japanese), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. 2013-07-30 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” at the Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2013-07-29 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” at the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants (Introduction in Chinese at Baidu.com) and Institutes of Guangxi Medicinal Plants, Guangxi, China. He has also established a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the institute for a long-term collaboration on studying traditional Chinese drugs for good vision. See news coverage from the institute's website (Chinese only). Blog post to follow. 2013-06-24 – 25 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a seminar on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” and two lectures on “Frontiers in Developmental Biology for Medicine” at the Shenyang Eye Research Institute, the Fourth People’s Hospital, Shengyang, China. See blog post here. 2013-06-22 Yuk Fai Leung gave an inaugural lecture on “High-throughput eye drug discovery in zebrafish” in the Opening Ceremony of the "JSIEC-Purdue University Joint Zebrafish Research Laboratory" & the 2nd Li Ka Shing Foundation Ophthalmology Graduate Student Forum (LOGSF) Program at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shantou, China. Richard Kuhn, the department head of Biological Sciences, also attended the event and gave a lecture on ""Molecular dissection of dengue virus and challenges for vaccines". Coverage by JSIEC (in Chinese), Shantou University Medicial College, Purdue News,BIONEWS of the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. 2013-06-17 Robert Carmer, an HHMI Summer Undergrate Student, was featured in the press releases of the College of Science and Department of Biological Sciences. 2013-06-08 Yuk Fai Leung led a Development and Disease Research section in the 11th USA Biology Olympiad Finals at Purdue University and shared our research on eye drug discovery using the zebrafish model. The students also learned essential skills for zebrafish research. 2013-05-05 – 09 Sylvia Bonilla and Yuk Fai Leung 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 meeting. Sylvia and Fai also interacted with colleagues all over the world during different events. (More @ Leung lab blog) 2013-05-02 Gaonan Zhang was awarded a William H. Phillips Summer Research Internship in 2013 to study "The effect of FDA-approved eye drugs on zebrafish visual behaviour". Congratulations Gaonan! 2013-04-23 Sylvia Bonilla was awarded an "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Honor Roll" and a "College of Science/GS Summer 2013 Research Grant". Congratulations Sylvia! 2013-04-22 Yuqing Zhang, Sylvia Bonilla, Leelyn Chong and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "Irx7, a Smarca4-regulated gene for retinal differentiation, regulates other genes controlled by Smarca4 in zebrafish retinas." was published in Gene Expression Patterns. Congratulations! 2013-04-11 Prahatha Venkatraman joined us as a graduate student to identify new drugs for retinal diseases with zebrafish models of human retinal degeneration! Welcome Prahatha! 2013-03-25 Yuk Fai Leung and Prof. Rosa Chan received a seed grant from the City University of Hong Kong to establish an international and interdisciplinary collaboration to conduct research on the "Dynamics of Zebrafish Behavioral Responses to Visual Stimuli". Congratulations! 2013-03-20 Prof. David Hyde from the University of Notre Dame gave a departmental seminar on "Eye of a Hurricane: how the zebrafish retina properly regulates neuronal regeneration in the midst of massive neuronal cell death" and met with the members of the Leung lab. 2013-03-13 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Studying traditional Chinese medicines for good vision with zebrafish” at Ho Yu College, Hong Kong.
2013-03-11 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “The potential effect of Sch B on good vision in zebrafish” at the 2013 Symposium on Biology of Ophthalmology, Hong Kong Eye Hospital, Hong Kong. He also chaired the Graduate Seminar Section and assessed student presentation in the same Symposium. 2013-03-04 Monica Hensley joined us as a rotation student. Welcome Monica! 2013-02-20 Sylvia Bonilla received a National Eye Institute Travel Grant to attend the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Congratulations Sylvia! 2013-02-08 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a departmental seminar on "Drug Screening to Treat Early-Onset Eye Diseases: Can Zebrafish Expedite the Discovery?" in the Department of Biology at IUPUI. 2013-02-06 Liyun zhang, Jin Cho, Devon Ptak and Yuk Fai Leung's paper on "The role of egr1 in early zebrafish retinogenesis" was published in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! *Jin Cho and Devon Ptak are former undergraduate students in the laboratory. 2013-02-01 Zeran Li*, Liyun Zhang and Yuk Fai Leung's invited Editorial Article: "Use of the zebrafish model to study refractive error" was published in Expert Review of Ophthalmology. Congratulations! *Zeran Li is a former undergraduate student in the laboratory. 2013-01-14 Natalia Meijome joined us as a rotation student; Patrick Tiffany and Gaonan Zhang joined us as undergraduate research students. Welcome Natalia, Patrick and Gaonan! Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a plenary lecture on "Drug Screening to Treat Early-Onset Eye Diseases: Can Zebrafish Expedite the Discovery?" and chair the "Cellular & Histopathological Ophthalmology Session" at the CUHK Ophthalmology Forum 2012 cum HKEH 20th Anniversary Symposium at the Hong Kong Eye Hospital, Hong Kong. See the photo album of the forum in our blog. 2012-12-14 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on "Drug Screening to Treat Early-Onset Eye Diseases: Can Zebrafish Expedite the Discovery?" and chair the "Laboratory investigations and vision research symposium I" at The 8th International Symposium of Ophthalmology, Hong Kong. See the photo album of the conference in our blog. 2012-12-05 Prof. Pamela Raymond from the University of Michigan gave a departmental seminar on "Retinal Regeneration in Zebrafish" and met with the members of the Leung lab. 2012-12-05 Sylvia Bonilla won a Yeunkyung Woo Achieve Excellence Travel Award to support her attendance and presentation at the ARVO annual meeting 2013. Congratulations Sylvia! 2012-11-22 Liyun Zhang, Leelyn Chong, Jin Cho and Yuk Fai Leung published an invited review paper: "Drug Screening to Treat Early-Onset Eye Diseases: Can Zebrafish Expedite the Discovery?" in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology. Congratulations! 2012-11-12 Prof. Calvin Chi-Pui Pang from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prof. Haoyu Chen from the Joint Shantou International Eye Center, Shantou University & the Chinese University of Hong Kong visited the Leung Lab and the research facilities at Purdue University. 2012-11-11 Liyun Zhang attended the Annual Joint Meeting of The American Academy of Ophthalmology and The Asia-Pacific Academy of Opthalmology 2012. 2012-10-15 Prahatha Venkatraman joined us as a rotation student. Welcome Prahatha! 2012-09 Meng She joined us as a research undergraduate student. Welcome Meng! 2012-08 Leelyn Chong joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome Leelyn! 2012-08 Skye Brown joined us as a technician. Welcome Skye! 2012-08-10 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel therapies for retinal degeneration” in the Department of Anatomy and Eye Institute, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2012-08-07 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to organize and lead a “Workshop on Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization” in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2012-08-08 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel therapies for retinal degeneration” in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2012-08-06 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Egr1 controls retinal lamination through regulating p35, a neuronal specific activator of Cdk5” in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2012-08-06 – 07 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to organize and lead journal clubs on human genetics and retinal development in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2012-08-03 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to organize and lead a “Workshop on Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization” at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. 2012-08-02 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel therapies for retinal degeneration” at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. 2012-07-28 Yuk Fai Leung was invited to give a lecture on “Disease-causing gene network and novel therapies for retinal degeneration” at the Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China 2012-06-27 Zeran Li, an undergraduate student in the laboratory, has led a project and published a paper “Phenylthiourea specifically reduces zebrafish eye size.” in PLOS ONE. Congratulations Zeran! 2012-06-20 – 24 2012-06-20 – 24 Yuk Fai Leung presented a poster entitled "Phenylthiourea specifically reduces zebrafish eye size by inhibiting thyroid peroxidase" at the 10th International Zebrafish Genetics and Development. 2012-05-07 2012-04-23 2012-03-24 2012-03-10 2012-03 2012-03 2012-02-06 2012-01 2012-01 2011-12-19 – 20 2011-12-14 – 15 2011-12-12 2011-12-12 2011-11-04 – 06 Sylvia Bonilla, Liyun Zhang and Yuqing Zhang presented a poster about their research projects in the Department of Biological Sciences 2011 retreat. 2011-11-08 2011-08-04 – 05 2011-07-01 2011-06-28 2011-06-27 2011-06-23 – 24 2011-05-07 2011-05-01 – 05-05 2010-11-13 2010-10-13 – 24 2010-09 2010-07-20 2010-06-27 2010-06-19 2010-06-19 2010-06-18 2010-06-17 2010-06-12 – 7-25 2010-06-08 2010-06-04 2010-03-26 2010-03-25 2010-01-18 Also see 2009-12-02 2009-12 2009-10-18 2009-08-31 2009-04 Researcher looks for link between human and fish retinal diseases 2009-03-25 2009-03-15 Liyun Zhang joins us as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Liyun!
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