Congratulations to James Spurlin on publication of his manuscript! James recently authored a paper for Developmental Dynamics describing the technique to increase the accessibility to late-stage chick embryos. Please check it out! James Spurlin and Peter Lwigale. A technique to increase accessibility to late-stage chick embryos for in ovo manipulations. Developmental Dynamics. 2012 DOI:10.1002/dvdy.23907

Chelsey McKenna successfully completed her PhD with the dissertation titled ” The role of Semaphorin3A/Neuropilin1 and  Semaphorin3F/Neuropilin2 in the development of innervation and vascularization of the cornea”,under the supervision of Prof. P Lwigale. Chelsey’s PhD focuses on identifying the developmental regulators that establish avascularity and innervation of the cornea. Her work has also identified molecular regulators…

Chelsey is the proud recipient of Rice University Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Service Award 2011-2012. Kudos!

Sam successfully passed his PhD candidacy exam. Bravo!

Ana passed her A exam today with flying colors and she is now a PhD candidate! Well done!

Welcome 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!

We 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!

The 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!)

The 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…