{"id":5795,"date":"2023-07-24T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2023-09-26T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T05:04:07","slug":"generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2023\/07\/24\/generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Young & Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>July marks the arrival of new students and trainees. This year, I took on a new role as Associate Director of Davis-based Medical Student Research, for which I will help UCD med students in Sac find labs in Davis. This meant summer BBQs and pool parties with new MD-PhD and ARC-MD students, and reconnecting with the vision science folks at Ed & Marie’s vineyard in Winters. Even Westley joined in the fun in his swimsuit and got to compete in cornhole. In lab, I took on a pair of high school students from the Young Scholars Program<\/a>, which along with my niece brought some youthful energy. At home, we kicked off the month celebrating Westley’s friend Shaan’s birthday at the Rocknasium<\/a>, shared snacks and a chaotic game of Uno<\/a> with the Dea’s at the July 4th fireworks<\/a> at Community Park, then hosted our retina year-end gathering to celebrate the incoming and graduating fellows over burgers, wings, and kulfi popsicles to beat the heat. We sent Westley to UCD Youth Camps<\/a> to buff his athletic and swimming skills, despite having to pack lunch and snacks every day. He tried to show us his bowling skills at Memorial Union<\/a> afterwards, but we forgot to bring socks and broke out our cue sticks for some 8-ball instead. Despite record temperatures, we kept up pruning our Japanese maples and propagating the kurapia, although my 8-year-old ficus bonsai did not survive the heat wave. We shared our loss with Melody’s family at her Aunt Audrey’s memorial this weekend, which gave us a chance to visit her parents and old stomping ground. At work, we successfully dosed our first human patient at UCD with ocular gene therapy<\/a> last week, which hopefully will pave the way to our eye center becoming a center of excellence for regenerative therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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