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LAB NEWS
3/21/25
Albert Gonzales wins 2025 National Postdoctoral Association Gallagher Mentor Award
Read about it here.
01/29/2025
Nevada Today featured our recent publication in PNAS detailing light-sensitive calcium signaling in the choroid
01/01/2025
American Cancer Society grant awarded
The lab received a $291,000 grant to support research on the effects of cancer on microcirculation.
06/05/2024
Current work in the lab funded by a BrightFocus Foundation Macular Degeneration Research grant.
03/06/2024
Nevada Today article describes ongoing work in the lab.
7/01/23
Ex vivo ocular perfusion model to study vascular physiology in the mouse eye
A group effort by the lab, especially Ahmed, to get the first publication accepted. Congratulations to all!
Great Job! and more to come!
4/21/23
Cristian's Long Beach Presentation
Cristian has also presented his research of dynamic regulation of order lipid meso-domains in the capillary endothelial cell membrane at the American Physiology Summit in Long Beach
Great Job!
4/4/23
Priscilla's Tahoe Presentation
Priscilla presented her research at the International Symposium on Ion Channels & Cardiovascular Disease Conference in Tahoe centered around her research on structural characterization of the microvascular in the proximal small intestine
4/4/23
Shipra's Tahoe Presentation
Shipra presented her research at the International Symposium on Ion Channels & Cardiovascular Disease Conference in Tahoe centered around her research of y-Actin in regulating contractility of retinal pericytes using RNA scope
4/4/23
Cristian's Tahoe Presentation
Cristian presented his research at the International Symposium on Ion Channels & Cardiovascular Disease Conference in Tahoe centered around his research dynamic regulation of order lipid meso-domains in the capillary endothelial cell membrane
04/01/23
First NIH R01 Grant
We are now funded to study mechanisms of pericyte dysfunction in models of Alzheimer's Disease
12/06/22
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Congratulations to Cristian for presenting his dissertation proposal and he is now a Ph.D. candidate.
Great Job!
06/22/22
Ahmed gave a fantastic talk at the Calcium Signaling Gordon Research Conference.
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Great Job!
Ahmed's First
Talk
06/21/22
Ahmed and Christian finally able to show off their hard work at the Calcium Signaling Gordon Research Conference.
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Now back to work!
Poster Time
08/22/21
Hard work from Ahmed has finally paid off. Congratulations on this great accomplishment!
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Now back to work!
First Review Article
From the Lab
02/08/21
The lab would like to welcome
Ahmed Eltanahy M.D. to Reno!
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Already fast at work!
The Lab is Growing
01 / 29 /21
Two days in the lab and Cristian has isolated, pinned, and images his first retina.
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Only a thousand more to go...
Cristian Images the Retina
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11/ 04 /20
I was told that vertical lines makes the room look bigger... so we did some redecorating
Microscope Goes Vertical
10 / 12 / 20
NEW PUBLICATION
10 / 01 / 20
New X-Light V3 Spinning-Disk
Confocal Microscope
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Thank you Reese, Live Cell Solutions LLC
Building a Microscope
10 / 01 / 20
Finally made the trek across the US. Now I have to fill the lab with equipment
I AM HERE IN RENO!!
5 / 13 / 20
First piece of lab equipment is in the lab even when I am not.