Cameron did a great job. His thesis came together beautifully. Characterizing the Remodeling of the Lamina Cribrosa of Glaucoma Eyes Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and affects roughly 80 million people worldwide. Glaucoma is characterized by progressive visual field loss from the death of retinal ganglion cell axons in the […]
First holiday party since COVID upended everything. It was a lot of fun. We built gingerbread houses, ate lots of food, and did white elephant gift exchange. It was lots of fun.
Minneapolis, MN It was wonderful to catch up with Brandon, Zheliang, and Aurelie at the conference, and it was an honor to present our work on hydrogels to Zhigang Suo, the master of hydrogels, at his 60th birthday celebration.
Energy Topics in Mechanics Workshop Houston, TX The Harvard, Stanford, Max Planck, Brown, and NTU academic families gathered to celebrate Huajian Gao’s 60th Birthday. It was an incredible celebration for an incredible scholar. I was lucky that I was his student.
Rome, IT This year has been a banner year for travel. Presented our lab’s work on OCT strain mapping of the optic nerve head, and did a bit of sight seeing in Rome.
Celebrating the end of another academic year with good food and good company. And a new group photo.
Vail, CO. First conference as grad student for Kalyn Younger and Will Cortes. Caught up with Hai Dong and Arina Korneva, now at GT and VT respectively. JHU dinner, and a memorable hike.
Had a great time at CMBBE with Kristin Myers. Presented Tracy Ling’s work on computational modeling of strains in the axonal compartments of the mouse optic nerve head.
New Orleans! This was the first in-person ARVO since COVID, and the first time meeting Arina as a colleague from Virginia Tech. Cameron and I gave posters on our OCT strain measurements in glaucoma patients and Arina gave a talk on measuring deformation in the mouse astrocytic lamina.
So I went to Australia to give a talk, reconnect with colleagues, and meet some animals.