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Congratulations to Dr. Dan Midgett  for his successful dissertation defense, “Measuring the Full-Field Inflation Response of the Optic Nerve Head“.  Abstract below. The optic nerve head (ONH) is the region where the retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons travel through the eye wall and bundle to form the the optic nerve. The lamina cribrosa (LC) and [...]

We held a contest to design our lab mug. It was inspiring to see all of your creative design. Tracy Ling’s design won a close vote. But since there were so many great ideas, I combined a few of the top vote getters to come up with the final mug design. “Who, what, where, why, [...]

Celebrating another year and saying farewell to 3 lab members.  Zheng Jia left to start a faculty position in Zhejiang University, China.  Ran Shi will be returning to Beijing Institute of Technology after 1 year as visiting student, and Hai Dong will be moving to UIUC to start another postdoc. Thank you for all your hard [...]

Chilling in the backyard with good food and good conversation before the start of another academic year.  Thanks all for your hard work.

The lab was well represented at conference at Northeastern U. by Hai Dong, Jingkai Guo and Zheng Jia who gave a 40 invited talk on growth and remodeling.  It was also  great seeing Sarah Bentil giving a talk as a professor.

A reunion with Kristin Myers and her group in the beautiful Tucson desert.  Michelle and Elizabeth were busy at the poster session and Dan had a great talk in the Ocular Biomechanics session.

Tracy Ling’s first conference. Both Dan and Tracy did a great job presenting their posters.  Nearly 3 hours of nonstop talking.  Not a simple feat.

Thank you all for another wonderful year! We held our first Christmas Cookie Baking Contests. Everyone baked their recipes (or some online recipe found the night before) and brought them to share.  We all inspected, tasted, and voted for the best tasting and best looking cookie.  It was a close race, as all the cookies [...]

Dan presented a fabulous poster at ARVO. He was talking nonstop from 10:30-1:30 pm. Congratulations to Dan!

Congratulations to Barbara for her successful Thesis Defense and Bahram for his new job at Baxter.