Great collaboration with Prof. Xingchao Shentu’s team at @ZJU_China, who shared their expertise in lens biology. Shoutout to Xiyuan Ping, an #NIH Graduate Partnerships Program student, and congrats to Hao Zhang (#ZJU_China), Fran Nadal-Nicolás and Josh Miyagishima (#NEI).

#GroundSquirrel develop “reversible #cataracts” during #hibernation, with their lenses quickly clearing upon waking. Using GS-#iPSC-derived lens epithelial cells, we explored the molecular mechanism behind this, pointing to a potential treatment target.

Maotai vs. Scotch!!😉🥂 Celebrating the @FASEBorg “Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing” meeting and honoring the Boycott Awardees: Profs. Ulrike Grünert and Paul Martin🥳🥳🥳. See you in 2026!

We are pleasantly surprised that @JohnMichaelBall’s paper, “Using high-resolution microscopy data to generate realistic structures for electromagnetic FDTD simulations from complex biological models,” made the cover of @NatureProtocols!🥳

Congrats to my former postdoc, now Prof at SYSU, Jingxing Ou, on the discovery of FOXO1 as a key factor in cold adaptation. Many thanks to @NatEyeInstitute for supporting our research on hibernation, seemly unrelated to vision. We do have a follow-up story on cornea storage 😉.

Fresh from the GRC Visual System Development 2024! Thank you, Valerie, Jeremy @jnk_lab, and Justin @FlyEyeLab ! Congrats, Kristen @BlockInTheBack and Bob @BobbyJEyeGuy 🎉🎉🎉 and the GRS leaders @KiaraCEldred1, Robert Mackin, @M4rik0, Danielle Little @drl5141

RT @NEIDirector: Congratulations to Dr. Emily Chew (@NatEyeInstitute) for receiving the Proctor Medal at #ARVO2024!. Beautiful lecture on A….

Register and submit your abstract today - we have ~180 attendees already!! 👏👏👏.

This one is even older, when two retina FASEB meetings were together (1984, courtesy of Sam Wu)

This is the photo of the first #RNVSRC in 1992 (courtesy of @JeffDiamond9, if you can find that kid 😃)

Registration is open! Join the retina community this summer to learn the newest, coolest results of retinal neurobiology and visual processing! Tell me your first year attending #RNVSRC. Mine was Copper Mountain 2000, memorable for the Eisenhower tunnel fire incident 🔥.

RT @NEIDirector: An incredible symposium on @NIH campus (Bethesda) to celebrate OCT imaging (Lasker Award & National Medal of Technology an….

Nature is amazing! During my hike by the Potomac River today, I saw numerous retinal ganglion cells #RGC in the frozen canal! BTW, can I publish this 😉 . , I've heard a journal called "Nature" @Nature

RT @NEIDirector: One week from today: @NatEyeInstitute is hosting a Visual Neuro-Plasticity workshop (free & virtual). This is an area wher….

@eLife reviewed preprint: We are revising the manuscript in response to the comments.

This model not only offers a platform to study human microglia but also showcases the potential of cell therapy, allowing replacement of aged/harmful microglia with younger/healthier ones in retinal and other neurodegenerative diseases where microglia play a significant role.

The transplanted human microglia responded to injuries just as the native mouse microglia did.

In collaboration with @WaiTWong1, Wenxin and the team successfully transplanted human iPSC-derived microglia into the mouse retina. These cells integrated seamlessly with the native mouse microglia and remained in place for up to 8 months!

RT @MicrobiomDigest: After lunch, I will continue tweeting from the 2023 @NIHOxCam Annual Research Colloquium. The theme of the colloquium….