People Type: Alumni

Biography Advisor: Freya Mowat Keywords: Parkinson’s Disease, retina, progressive retinal atrophy, age-related macular degeneration Education BSc, 2017, Comparative Pathology, Royal Veterinary College, University of London BVetMed, 2020, Royal Veterinary College, University of London Research Interests I have a long-term goal of pursuing a residency program in veterinary ophthalmology and would consider potentially contributing to a …

Biography Education BS 2016, Biology and Psychology, UW–Madison, Madison, WI M.D Candidate (Current), UW–Madison, WI Research After maintaining Drosophila stocks and learning the basics of fly genetics for two years in Dr. Nansi Colley’s laboratory, Joseph L’Huillier has begun conducting research and is currently leading the investigation of four EMS-mutagenized stocks to identify novel genes …

Biography Education BS 1994, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India PhD 2001, Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Post-Doctoral Research 2002-2008, Cell Biology & Ophthalmology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Research Interests Work in Dr. Lakkaraju’s laboratory focuses on understanding the cellular basis of retinal diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the …

Biography Advisor: Akihiro Ikeda, PhD Keywords: Aging, retinal pigmented epithelium, retinal degeneration, mitochondria, metabolism Education: BS 2009, Genetics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI PhD 2018, Genetics and Genomics, Duke University, Durham, NC Research Interests: Dr. Landowski investigates the molecular pathways disrupted by genetic mutations that accelerate the formation of age-dependent retinal pathologies in mice. His …

Biography Education BA 1999, English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA MD 2007, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Preliminary Medicine Intern, 2007-2008, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY Ophthalmology Resident 2008-2011, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania Ocular Pathology Fellow 2011-2012, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the …

Biography Education: BS 2003, Biology, National Taiwan Normal University MS 2006, Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA PhD 2012, Medical Science (Neuroscience), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Research Interests: Wei-Hua Lee, PhD was an assistant scientist of department of medical genetics at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interest was to understand the mitochondrial …

Biography Education Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery 2010, Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Research Dr. Lewin is the owner of Vision Vets for Pets in Knoxville, TN. His research interests include infectious ocular disease and clinical veterinary ophthalmology.

Biography Education BS 1994, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI PhD 2002, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison Postdoctoral Research 2002-2005, University of Wisconsin–Madison Research Interests Sara Liliensiek is currently employed by VWR International, LLC, a leading global supplier of laboratory equipment. She was an Assistant Scientist in the Chemical …

Biography Advisor: Vikas Singh, PhD Keywords: Machine learning, fairness, computer vision, disease identification, data harmonization Education B.Tech 2016, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, India MS 2018, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Research Vishnu works in the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, specifically in developing fair and invariant deep learning algorithms. In …