Heading to ARVO #ARVO2023!Let’s meet up and talk vision science!!!Proud to be a part of this amazing UIowa Eye team! Come say hi to the Hawkeyes! shorturl.at/EHIP8

Super impressed by the great science being presented at #ARVO2023! For any scientists working on retinal neuroprotection, neuroenhancement, or regeneration, please keep this special issue of Ophthalmology Science in mind for submission. Pub fees waived!

Every ARVO, I’m reminded that science advances through relationships as much as experiments. #ARVO2023 has been full of smiles and positive energy toward progress in #ophthalmology. Grateful to have such colleagues and friends in our field. ARVO is “Our-VO”!

Huge highlight of #ARVO2023 was Budd Tucker’s amazing Cogan Award lecture. Such a sweeping tour of the landscape of gene and cell replacement therapy — and a testament to the power of team science. Thanks to Budd A. Tucker for your friendship. Constantly inspired by your passion.

Today was Douglas Jin’s last day on my rotation for retina fellowship. One last Saturday session after postops for one-on-one surgical teaching (with all my scribbles). So great to see Dr. Jin’s growth. He will be serving the Seattle area well in a few months! 📸: Dr. Binkley

Proud to work with this retina crew UIowa Eye. Medicine is a long road. Celebrate the moments, big and small. Best part of this tradition is listening to each others' life stories. C.Y. “Cy” Lewis, MD, MPH and Aaron D. Dotson, MD have absolutely incredible stories and are so important in our field.

Start a brewery in the middle of the pandemic and make a special IPA to raise awareness and funds for vision research? Sure thing! Thanks to “courage” and the “power of the human spirit.” Thanks to The Blind Butcher + Backpocket Brewing for supporting our mission to cure blindness!

Artificial intelligence vs. actual intelligence? Thoughts on ChatGPT vs. my genius first grade daughter in this month’s Ophthalmology Times 👀 editorial: “Retinator III: Rise of the (Writing) Machines.” Scribo, ergo sum! Fear not, my fellow humans. Our future is safe! #ophthotwitter

Thanks Michael F. Chiang, MD for the mention 🙏 Our team’s current AAV paradigm: 1) Human explants/organoids for tropism+transduction liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hu… 2) Confirm tropism in animal models+ensure no toxicity liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hu… 3) Assess inflammation to choose vector+route ⬇️

Great job by UIowa Eye resident Arnulfo Garza, MD on this imaging report about a very peculiar OPL appearance in Wolfram (DIDMOAD) syndrome. To learn more, check out a nice multicenter case series in Ophthalmology by Pearse Keane @MichelMichaelid and colleagues: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26875006/

Great case by Grace Lee! Fantastic MS4 at Carver College of Medicine applying to #ophthalmology this fall

I’ve come out of Twitter/X hibernation to say the following: Bilal cares about making the world better for others. We are lucky to have him as a resident at Iowa. (This podcast is just me rambling.)

Lots of great work to share and discuss. ARVO has had a great hum of energy so far. Come by our posters and talks to say hi! webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/update/ARVO_UI…

ARVO’s annual meeting is not only the largest vision research gathering in the world — but also a yearly reminder that science advances through relationships as much as experiments. Great to see such progress in the field and to share smiles, enthusiasm, and ideas. #ARVO2024

Resident and Fellow Research Day is the “most important day on our academic calendar” UIowa Eye. Congratulations to all the trainees and their faculty mentors for fantastic presentations today. It was a great day celebrating our dedication to progress in #ophthalmology!

Very happy to share our study of human photoreceptor cell development finally out today in Journal of Clinical Investigation! The cover image is an example of the sort of retinal organoids we used to model the inherited disease caused by NR2E3 variants. Check out those photoreceptors!!

As learners, we walk in the shoes of those who have gone before. In doing so, we learn the way. Congrats to retina fellows Dr. Bhuyan and Dr. Jamshidi on tremendous growth UIowa Eye. They were thrilled to get custom colored FlyEase OR shoes for the next steps of their journey!

Look out for “SOPLA” in cases of unexplained vision loss👇 Congrats to Dr. Boyce, the diligent clinician scientist shown below, as esteemed first author. We had many lab meetings over several years to put this paper together. He sorted out the science…I balanced lenses 🤣