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 work. Best wished on your new adventure.
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 were delicious! The winners are Tracy Ling’s swirled cookie (A) for the prettiest cookie and Michelle Chen’s apple pie-let (C) for the most delicious treat.
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.
Jingkai and Michelle both gave excellent talks on modeling amorphous polymers and mechanochemistry of collagen. It was Michelle’s first conference talk!
