Lab News
October 2024
A spooky sneak peek at our Halloween decor! 🎃👻
Congrats to our PI, Dr. Tina Liu, who's officially an IPN faculty now!
Emma Gatewood gave a fantastic presentation on Posterior Cortical Atrophy for her Human Science Senior Capstone Project with Drs. Tina Liu and Raymond (Scott) Turner. The topic sparked so much enthusiasm, with about 15 questions from the class, and Emma handled each one with incredible skill. The VPP lab is so proud of you, Emma!
The VPP lab renovation project is complete! Check out our swanky new look :-)
Dr. Tina Liu, September 2024
Exciting news for the VPP lab! The VIBRANT (Vision Improvement through Behavioral Rehabilitation And Neuroplasticity Training) study has received approval from the Georgetown-MedStar IRB.
Welcome, GU undergrads Aasvi Bist, Annika Elstrom, Sara Melese, Jamieson Park, and Emma Gatewood, to the lab. The PI is beyond excited to work with you and support you as you navigate your premed study, research, and professional growth.
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Our PI, Dr. Tina Liu, recently gave a lecture/seminar on Vision as part of the ICOS 7710 Cognitive Science Core Course. Check out her slides here!Â
The VPP lab hosted its very first happy hour to celebrate Beth Rispoli's fantastic summer rotation talk!
July 22, 2024
Welcome Kyungji (KJ) Moon, MS, to the VPP lab as the Lab Manager and Clinical Research Associate. She will be focusing on the Precision Vision Recovery After Stroke line of research. We are super excited to have her here!Â
July 8, 2024
The VPP lab is excited to welcome Beth Rispoli, MA, back to DC! Beth is an IPN graduate student currently doing her summer rotation in the VPP lab. Her smile is bigger than her face and lights up the entire lab :-)
June 18, 2024
At the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Conference, our PI, Dr. Tina Liu, was matched with Cansu Erkan, a rising senior at UMD majoring in psychology and minoring in neuroscience, as her BRAIN 2024 mentee. Cansu did an excellent job presenting her first-authored poster!
May 19, 2024
Bing Li nailed her Sunday afternoon talk in the 'Plasticity and Learning' session at VSS 2024!Â
May 9, 2024
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Congratulations to Tori Gobo for submitting her first-authored abstract entitled "Visual evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness" to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. Tori will soon pursue her PhD degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
May 8, 2024
Lab publication alert! Liu, T.T. (2024). Unraveling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 25, 451,
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00825-x Â
Congratulations to Elena Younhye Ock for accepting the offer to pursue her MD/PhD degree at the University of Colorado Boulder.
 May 2, 2024
Bing Li gave an excellent practice talk during the first joint (SAMP-VPP) lab meeting for the upcoming Vision Sciences Society Meeting (VSS 2024) in Florida.
April 10, 2024
The VPP welcomes its first non-GU visitor, Elena Younhye Ock, an NIH postbac working with Eli Merriam (primary mentor and lab PI) and Tina Liu (co-mentor). Elena is a future MD/PhD student who regularly shadows Dr. Benjamin Osborne in his eye clinic at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
 April 4, 2024
Congratulations to Bing Li, who has been awarded the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her outstanding proposal developed during her time as an NIH postbac under the mentorship of Tina Liu (primary mentor) and Eli Merriam (co-mentor and lab PI). Bing will soon embark on the next chapter as a neuroscience graduate student at Princeton University.
April 1, 2024
The VPP lab is now officially open (and eagerly awaiting furniture delivery)!