Dr. Rebecca Pfeiffer from our team has just been awarded a Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Career Development Award to explore how Müller glia interact with synapses at the network level. We are so incredibly proud of her and are looking forward to seeing where her science develops as a result of this award. Our immense gratitude to RPB for all of their support over the years as without them, the science that comes out of this laboratory would not be possible.
Lab PI Bryan Jones and postdoctoral fellow Crystal Sigulinsky presented work at the FASEB Retina Meeting, 2022 in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Edit: Photos of the meeting can be seen here.
Neuroscience graduate student, Megan Croom is doing a rotation through the lab right now working on a collaborative project with colleagues at The Karolinska Instituet related to glaucoma.
Jessica Garcia, a former student in the lab is now a medical student at University of Washington School of Medicine. Last week she participated in her white coat ceremony, and we are so, very proud of her.
Jessica Garcia is this year’s University of Utah Student Veteran of the Year. Jessica is an undergraduate student in the lab exploring the OFF-layer branches of ON cone bipolar cells in early retinal degeneration.
Jessica came to us by way of service with the US Navy, where she served as an aviation technician before attending the University of Utah.
Congratulations Jessica! We are so proud of you.