ARVO 2016: Seattle

In defiance of the 'rainy city' monkier, Seattle turned on the sunshine for ARVO 2016. It was a hectic 5 days packed with some great talks, many posters, and a few blissful quiet moments soaking up some rays in the park outside of the conference center. 

This year I presented a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing exploratory omics findings across human and animal studies of refractive error. I got some great ideas for refining the methods of this study from other ARVO goers; can't wait to get home and start working on it again!

A high res version of my poster is available on ResearchGate

ARVO 2015: My first international conference!

This year’s ARVO conference was in Denver, Colorado. I was very excited; I’d never been to the States, or to a big conference. It was great, but I wish I had more time to see everything! I presented RNAseq GSEA data showing that structural and metabolic pathways are correlated with the eye size during myopia and hyperopia induction in chicks. Here’s my obligatory awkward first conference poster pic (and a great snap I took of the view near Estes Park, a few hours’ drive from Denver). For a better look at my poster click here.