News2024-01-23 Myrtle Vincert joined us as an undergradute research student. Welcome Myrtle! 2024-01-03 – 07 Beichen Wang attended the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2024 in Waimea, HI, USA. He presented a poster on "Feature Selection for Multivariate Time-Series Data After Tensor Reduction". He received an Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (OIGP) travel award to attend this meeting. Congratulations, Beichen! 2023-12-13 Beichen Wang and Yuk Fai Leung received a 2024 Clinical & Translational Science (CTS) Grant from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) on " Improving Drug Discovery Efficiency for Retinal Degeneration by Functional Drug Screening". Congratulations! 2023-12-04 Beichen Wang gave a guest lecture entitled "Retinitis Pigmentosa and Drug Discovery Using Zebrafish" in Dr. Patrick Kerstein's HSCI336–Eye Physiology and Disease. 2023-11-14 Sophia Dietz attended the 2023 Fall Undergraduate Research Expo at Purdue University. She presented a poster on "Is a cure already out there? Repurposing an FDA-approved drug for night blindness in zebrafish model." Her presentation won a 3rd Place Poster Award in the College of Science. Congratulations, Sophia! 2023-10-30 Beichen Wang's thesis research was featured on our departmental website. 2023-10-06 Beichen Wang attended the 8th Annual Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery Symposium at Purdue University. He presented a poster on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa." 2023-09-08 Beichen Wang attended the 2023 Annual Meeting for the Greater Indiana Chapter Society for Neuroscience at Purdue University. He presented a poster on "A zebrafish functional screen identifies leads from FDA-approved drugs for treating retinitis pigmentosa." 2023-06-06 – 07-19 Beichen Wang attended the Neurobiology: Mechanisms & Advanced Approaches Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA. He received a fellowship from the MBL, and special travel awards from our department, the college of science and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience for attending this course. Congratulations Beichen!
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