Lab News
July 22, 2024
Welcome Kyungji (KJ) Moon, MS, to the VPP lab as the Lab Manager and Clinical Research Associate. She will be focusing on the Precision Vision Recovery After Stroke line of research. We are super excited to have her here!
July 8, 2024
The VPP lab is excited to welcome Beth Rispoli, MA, back to DC! Beth is an IPN graduate student currently doing her summer rotation in the VPP lab. Her smile is bigger than her face and lights up the entire lab :-)
June 18, 2024
During the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference (BRAIN Conference 2024), I was delighted to be matched with Cansu Erkan as my mentee. Cansu is a rising senior at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, majoring in psychology and minoring in neuroscience. She did an excellent job presenting her first-authored conference poster!
May 19, 2024
Bing Li nailed her Sunday afternoon talk in the 'Plasticity and Learning' session at VSS 2024!
May 9, 2024
Congratulations to Tori Gobo for submitting her first-authored abstract entitled "Visual evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness" to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. Tori will soon pursue her PhD degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
May 8, 2024
Lab publication alert! Liu, T.T. (2024). Unraveling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25, 451,
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00825-x
Congratulations to Elena Younhye Ock for accepting the offer to pursue her MD/PhD degree at the University of Colorado Boulder.
May 2, 2024
Bing Li gave an excellent practice talk during the first joint (SAMP-VPP) lab meeting for the upcoming Vision Sciences Society Meeting (VSS 2024) in Florida.
April 10, 2024
The VPP welcomes its first non-GU visitor, Elena Younhye Ock, an NIH postbac working with Eli Merriam (primary mentor and lab PI) and Tina Liu (co-mentor). Elena is a future MD/PhD student who regularly shadows Dr. Benjamin Osborne in his eye clinic at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
April 4, 2024
Congratulations to Bing Li, who has been awarded the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her outstanding proposal developed during her time as an NIH postbac under the mentorship of Tina Liu (primary mentor) and Eli Merriam (co-mentor and lab PI). Bing will soon embark on the next chapter as a neuroscience graduate student at Princeton University.
April 1, 2024
The VPP lab is now officially open (and eagerly awaiting furniture delivery)!