Today's student seminar

It’s thesis defense Thursday! So excited for @harkinjade to show off her awesome research and put the exclamation mark on a stellar PhD! For those not IU School of Medicine , you’ll have to wait a bit longer for the manuscripts to be officially published, but it will be worth the wait!

Please join us today as Jade Harkin Jade Harkin (Meyer Lab) presents her thesis defense seminar.

The full Meyer Lab celebrating the successful PhD defense of DOCTOR Jade Harkin!

Celebrating the graduation of Dr. Jade Harkin today!

Check out the latest from the lab in PNASNews , based on the incredible work from Jade Harkin ! Give it a read and see how we achieve 100% differentiation of retinal organoids, with greatly improved reproducibilty between individual organoids! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

-Lifelong absence of microglia causes neurodegenerative disease -Transplantation of healthy microglia can rescue this neurodegenerative disease Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

So excited to be at AAIC! Already seeing some amazing science. Come checkout my poster tomorrow (Monday) at 84 to hear about how we can use iPSC microglial models to understand AD pathology #AAIC2024

Happy to share the latest research from the lab, led by Cátia Gomes. In this study, we explore the activation of astrocytes and how this astrocyte activation both changes astrocyte function, as well as how it leads to neurodegenerative features. cell.com/stem-cell-repo…

Great news! Jade Harkin was just named as the 2024 IUSM Pharm-Tox KK Chen award winner for outstanding Pharmacology or Toxicology graduate student! Congrats Jade!

Happy to share our latest publication, featuring the beautiful work of KC (Kang-Chieh) Huang. In this study, we explored some of the functional and mechanistic consequences of the OPTN-E50K glaucoma mutation in human stem cell models Stark Neurosciences Research Institute IUSM Neuroscience Stem Cell Research Group link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Excited to share our latest review article discussing the retinal ganglion cells and their glia partners in humans and mice, and share our views on how to bridge the barriers for modeling development and diseases. cell.com/trends/neurosc…

Happy Halloween! Section of retinal organoids, pseudocolored for the occasion. Courtesy of @meyerlab member Kiersten.

Congrats to the latest grad from the ⁦Meyer Lab⁩, ⁦⁦Kaylee Tutrow, PhD⁩ ! Great job on your dissertation defense today!