Incredibly appreciative for everyone involved, without whom this study would have been impossible!!

This St. Louis weather is like living in a thermocycler.

So lucky to spend the past 5 days in New Orleans sharing our work in the Apte Lab at #ARVO2023. Many thanks to the NEI for the travel grant; for amazing lab mates who got up at 8am to support my talks; and last but not least for my mentor Apte Lab.

Too real.

It was really great to work with Dr. Indira Mysorekar & company on this NIDDK-funded project. I learned so much from them!

Million thanks to BrightFocus Foundation for the travel award so we could share our work in the Apte Lab at the AMD Symposium this weekend at Mass Eye and Ear! I learned so much from all of the wonderful presentations.

Congratulations Chas Pfeifer on publishing this excellent body of work! What an inspiration to see this story come together.

Our new paper from Lynn Hassman, MD PhD & Apte Lab is out! We took liquid biopsies from patients to identify ocular inflammatory signatures in uveitis and where they were coming from; maybe there could be macrophage-directed therapies in the future? doi.org/10.1016/j.xops…

Hey, that’s my PI!

Ringing in the new year with a new bedside-to-bench paper from Apte Lab and Phil Ruzycki! We used genomics data of multiple patient tissues to identify signaling pathways potentially at play in AMD. Shoutout to Robert Mullins(he/him) for their excellent choroid data! doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm…

It’s a double publication day for Apte Lab! Congrats Tim Lee on publishing his thesis work on AMP kinase! insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

Thank you to the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging of @WUSTLpubhealth for hearing me share our research in the Apte Lab on age-related eye disease as part of the Professor Mark Wrighton 3MT Competition! It was a stimulating discussion this morning on all things aging & climate change.

New research in Cell Reports explores the relationship of aging, dysregulated cholesterol metabolism, and NAD+ dynamics, revealing insights into #AMD. Led by Dr. Terao Test Account, and Dr. Yoshida WashU Anesthesiology Research, with Apte Lab colleagues. bit.ly/3UmQABg

New #OphthalmologyJournal #podcast is out this week! Edmund Tsui, MD talks to Dr. Lynn M. Hassman and Joseph Lin about the potential common underlying mechanisms that exist for immune cell recruitment in #uveitis. Listen now! ow.ly/BHKS50RTU3W

Listen today: Edmund Tsui, MD, Joseph Lin, & Dr. Lynn M. Hassman explore how aqueous macrophages contribute to conserved CCL2 & CXCL10 gradients in #uveitis on the #Ophthalmology Journal #podcast. ow.ly/1faK50RRsYE

⁩Proud of Apte lab MSTP trainee Joseph Lin for winning the 2024 Ceil M. DeGutis Prize! Thank you to WUSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics for their hard work on these awards as there are many excellent candidates. We are grateful for everyone's support of Joseph's graduate research. Test Account @WUSTLdbbs

Thank you for featuring our work! I learned an enormous amount by working on this collaborative effort carried by the brilliant Lynn Hassman, MD PhD and many many other experts.

Congrats to all the ⁦WUSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics⁩ award and fellowship honorees. The future looks bright!