Congratulations to Ana Ojeda!
Ana passed her A exam today with flying colors and she is now a PhD candidate! Well done!
Read MoreAna passed her A exam today with flying colors and she is now a PhD candidate! Well done!
Read MoreChelsey and Ravi have recently co-authored a paper for PLoS ONE on innervation of the mouse cornea. Please check it out! McKenna CC, Munjaal RP, Lwigale PY (2012) Distinct Roles for Neuropilin1 and Neuropilin2 during Mouse Corneal Innervation. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37175. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037175
Read MoreWelcome to Sinu Agrawal, our newest postdoc! Sinu received her PhD from Kansas State University and adds some important new bioinformatic skills to our lab – we are glad to have her! Also welcome to Eduardo Silveyra, a senior undergraduate at Rice, who will be working on corneal avascularity with Sam. Welcome, Eduardo!
Read MoreShannon and Peter recently published a video methods paper on avian chimeric embryos titled: “Analysis of Neural Crest Migration and Differentiation by Cross-species Transplantation” in Journal of Visualized Experiments. Check out our Publications page for the PubMed link, and the Protocols page to view the video.
Read MoreSam Kwiatkowski, James Spurlin, Ana Ojeda and Chelsey McKenna have all received travel awards from the BCB department to present their work at the 2012 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 6-10, 2012. Sam also received a travel award from ARVO. Congratulations Sam! Sam, Chelsey, James, Ana, and…
Read MoreJames Spurlin received the Edgar O’Rear Graduate Student Travel Grant from Rice University’s IBB to attend the 2012 ARVO Meeting. Well done, James!
Read MoreSam was awarded the 2011 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Award for his academic achievements. Nice work Sam!
Read MoreWe are pleased to have Michael Tang, Rice University junior, joining us in the Lwigale lab. Michael will work on retinoid control of neural crest migration and corneal invasion. Welcome Micheal! We are glad to have you!
Read MoreThe Lwigale Lab is pleased to welcome back Rice undergrads David Wang, Dorothy Chou, Xiao Zheng, and Nupur Jain. We missed y’all! (Well, we didn’t really miss David and Dorothy since they were with us all summer, but we’re glad they’re back too!)
Read MoreThe Lwigale lab is pleased to welcome two new undergraduate researchers for the summer of 2011. Dorothy Chou is a Rice University rising junior and a student in Rice’s Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) summer research program. Dorothy is working on corneal wound healing. Samantha Paulsen joins us for the summer from University of…
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