{"id":2953,"date":"2016-08-12T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:41:16","slug":"summer-meeting-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2016\/08\/12\/summer-meeting-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Meeting & Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016.08.12.a\"<\/a>\"2016.08.12.b\"<\/a>We celebrated Westley’s 6-month birthday with strawberry shortcake from Nugget<\/A> and lots of photos at home. Though he’s still too young to have any cake himself, he has begun putting everything he finds into his mouth, which makes it easier for us as we began introducing him to solids like rice cereal and baby food. Luckily, this year’s ASRS meeting<\/a> took place in nearby San Francisco, so I was able to just drive in for the sessions I wanted to attend. On Wednesday, I tried out the new In Situ<\/a> at the SF MOMA<\/a>, where Corey Lee’s menu of signature dishes replicated from some of the finest restaurants in the world (including Noma’s<\/A> Wood Sorrel & Sheep’s Milk Yogurt) made for a delicious lunch with my Duke co-fellows. I was invited for a reception and tour at Genentech’s<\/a> headquarters in the evening, where I got to see how thousands of liters of Lucentis<\/a> are produced, and rub elbows with their researchers and medical liasons. I returned to lab on Thursday to take my summer lab students out for lunch<\/a> to thank them for their hard work. I also took my research med students, including my year-long T32<\/a> mentee, for dinner at Takumi Izakaya<\/a> at their soft opening. On Friday, I returned to the City by the Bay to play reporter for Retina Times<\/a> and present on a discussion panel for Zeiss’<\/a> surgical microscope. I joined a colleague for a prix fixe lunch at Volta<\/a>, but skipped dinner to beat rush hour traffic on my way back. With a lot of upcoming travel, I skipped the rest of the meeting to spend more time at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We celebrated Westley’s 6-month birthday with strawberry shortcake from Nugget and lots of photos at home. Though he’s still too young to have any cake himself, he has begun putting everything he finds into his mouth, which makes it easier … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}