So proud that BrightFocus Foundation could support these Travel Fellows to present their innovative research and network at #AOPT2023! Congratulations to all the travel awardees!!

Poster winners. Yahoo for Ting Wang Ting Wang #AOPT Pharmacology Toxicology

Great work by Dr. Pattabiraman and the local organizing committee for #AOPT Pharmacology Toxicology IU School of Medicine Dept. of Ophthalmology IU School of Medicine

Feel so lucky to join this great lab! ♥️ very supportive PI and nice lab members!

🚀Thrilled to announce the publication of my main PhD project today! Huge gratitude to Padhu_Lab, Avinash Soundararajan, and our incredible collaborators for their help and support.🙏faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

ICYMI: Michael F. Chiang, MD, Michael Chiang, highlighted the work of Louis Pasquale, Jae Hee Kang & Oana Zeleznik about how patients w/ elevated triglycerides and diglycerides are more likely to develop #glaucoma. More: bit.ly/3N8RKfD #NEIfunded Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Brigham and Women's Hospital

Hyperlipidemia = risk factor for ocular hypertension and glaucoma. Statins = shown to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma progression. Yet the direct role of cholesterol on the cells of the trabecular meshwork (tissue that aids in maintaining IOP) is unknown.

A new preprint from our lab identifies clusterin, a secretory chaperone protein, help maintain actin mediated contractility and cell adhesive interactions by balancing the levels of g-proteins, tensins, SMAD3, and STATs in the trabecular meshwork.

Great news for the lab. Received our 2nd R01 to study the control of de novo lipogenesis on ocular pressure regulation. Thanks to my grad student Ting Ting Wang for the heavy lifting & postdoc Avinash Avinash Soundararajan for pushing the science in the lab. Thanks NEI

Big day for the lab. Grad student Ting Wang Ting Wang will be defending her thesis. Highly productive and smart PhD will be minted this day. Can't wait for her to impress the committee and the audience. Huge shout out to The Bhattacharya Lab@BascomPalmerEye Tim Osborne 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🫘 @timtocool.bsky.social @Underhill_UIUC & Jing Liu.

Finished my defense yesterday! Many thanks to my lab mates and my great PI Padhu_Lab, all my committee members, collaborators, family, and friends! Thanks everyone for coming to my defense yesterday!

Congrats to the Spring 2024 @NeurosciStark Women In Neuroscience Research & Career Award winners: Henika Patel (Henika Patel) and Ting Wang (Ting Wang)!!

Ready for #ARVO2024! Four posters from the lab Avinash Soundararajan Avinash on Tuesday. Ting Wang Ting, #RodaPasteurin, Anusha Shivashankar Anusha on Wednesday. Anusha will be competing for the best poster award in the Member In Training category.

Amazing women power in our department represented at #ARVO2024 WEAVR. Ting Wang Gabriella Hartman IU School of Medicine Dept. of Ophthalmology

Last ARVO during my PhD, and last time to present my SREBP story! Grateful for the incredible mentors I met in the US who guided me before and during my PhD Danny Saban Padhu_Lab! ♥️Many congratulations to Dr.Saban for getting the prestigious Cogan Award, well deserved!🎉👍

Ting! You are an inspiration. Many congrats to you and Padhu_Lab !

Ting you were extraordinary in the lab. Danny Saban Danny, your talk was amazing. Ting imbibed a lot of work ethics from the training in your lab. She went on to do well in my lab. Good luck to you, Ting.

Our team did an exceptional job at the #ARVO2024 ARVO Avinash Soundararajan Avinash, Ting Wang Ting, #RodaPasteurin, & Anusha Shivashankar Anusha presented their work and good good feedback. Truly happy to be mentoring such a fabulous group.

A proud day for the lab. Ting Wang Ting graduated with a PhD today. She will be heading to FDA for a fellowship from July. Extremely happy for her. Good luck to her for a successful future.

Dr. Padmanabhan Pattabiraman recently received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project titled: Transcriptional control of lipid biogenesis in trabecular meshwork and intraocular pressure regulation. Congratulations! Padhu_Lab