Neuroscience Ph.D. student presents at 2013 ARVO Meeting
Neuroscience Ph.D. student Vijay Kalaskar was recently selected to give a platform presentation during the “Anatomy Challenges for the Future” session of the 2013 annual meeting for ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) held May 5-9 in Seattle, Wash.
He also received an ARVO Foundation/Santen Inc. Travel Grant to present at this meeting.
Kalaskar is a fifth-year doctoral candidate working in the laboratory of James Lauderdale, an associate professor in the Department of Cellular Biology and the BHSI Neuroscience Ph.D. Program graduate coordinator. His work focuses on better understanding the signaling mechanisms involved in early eye development.
His winning abstract, “Identification of Signaling Pathways involved in Retina-Lens Tissue Interactions using Embryos Over-Expressing Pairedless Pax6 (Pax6ΔPD) Gene” can be found here (last page).