Sam recently authored a paper for Developmental Dynamics describing how pro- and anti-angiogenic factors regulate avascularity in the developing cornea. Please check it out! Sam Kwiatkowski, Ravi P. Munjaal, Teresa Lee, Peter Y. Lwigale. Expression of pro- and anti-angiogenic factors during the formation of the periocular vasculature and development of the avian cornea. Developmental Dynamics. 2013 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23956

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!