News
2026
Yuyan and Qi were awarded a grant from BrightFocus! Congratulations to them!
Rachel was awarded the Penn Neuroscience Summer Research Fellowship! She will continue working on the LNP project.
Jeff’s first manuscript on spatial transcriptomics of conjunctiva melanoma, along with Bryant from the lab, is now on medRxiv! This is a great collaboration with the Vivian Lee and Tatyana Milman labs! Check it out: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.23.26356337v1
Marlene passed her preliminary exam! Great job Marlene!
Yuyan was invited to give a talk at ARVO 2026 and Gaby presented her poster!
We celebrated Yuyan and Gaby’s birthdays and had fun with Publish or Perish!
Qi and Yuyan were awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness! Congratulations to them!
Bryant from GCB joined the lab as a rotation student!
2025
We celebrated Kelly’s birthday and Yuyan’s return from maternity leave!
Andrea from NGG joined the lab as a rotation student!
Nikhil started in the lab to begin his Biology Independent Study! He will be working on the LNP project.
Marlene from GTV joined the lab as a rotation student!
Yuyan is selected as the NIA Butler-Williams Scholar and as a member of the NIH Early Career Reviewer Program!
Rushil was awarded the CURF $5,000 Summer Research Funding grant to continue his research on spatial transcriptomics!
The lab presented at this year’s Vision Science Symposium.
Kelly attended the 2025 ARVO conference and presented her LNP work!
We celebrated Cass’s birthday with a cake from Batter & Crumbs!
With Dr. Cheng’s birthday the weekend before and Dr. Rice’s birthday today, the lab held a game night! Turns out, we all love Codenames.
Yuyan and Qi Cui were awarded a pilot grant from American Glaucoma Society. Congratulations Qi and Yuyan!
2024
Rachel: “Here are some pictures from the conference this week! It was really exciting to be able to show all our work from the summer & to learn about many other interesting projects!”
Look at all of our space!