MCW Ocular Gene Therapy Laboratory Team Events

Past members of the OGTL – including Emily Nettesheim (UT Southwestern) and Hanmeng Zhang (Harvard Medical School) – reunited in New Orleans with the current Lipinski lab for an evening of excellent Cajun food and cocktails. After accidently meeting up with our friends from the AOIP, the night ended up on Bourbon Street. Of course!

Dan Lipinski (sporting his bright red Oxford gown and white tie!) attended the formal hooding ceremony for two recent PhD graduates from the OGTL – Dr. Hanmeng Zhang and Dr. Dwani Patel – who were joined by their family and friends to help celebrate their official graduation from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Members of the OGTL and friends from the 7th and 8th Floor Eye Institute help celebrate Hanmeng’s successful defense of her thesis at Draft and Vessel, Wauwatosa.

Members of the OGTL and friends from the Advanced Ocular Imaging Program (AOIP) and Ocular Angiogenesis Laboratory celebrate Dwani’s successful defense of his thesis at the Hoyt Park Beer Garden, Milwaukee. 

Daniel Lipinski, PhD, and members of the Ocular Gene Therapy Laboratory (OGTL) celebrated the upcoming holidays with a trip to Holler House, a vintage Milwaukee tavern that boasts the oldest certified bowling alley in the United States. OGT members were joined by friends, partners and fellow Eye Institute researchers for an evening of beer, bowling and terrible, terrible Christmas sweaters! (Left to right) James Fisher, Hannah Fisher, Ryan Thurk, Jon Young, Chris Reid, Daniel Lipinski, Chris Skumatz, Rachel Jones Lipinski, Nathan Eaton, Joseph Besharse and Kristina Ertel.

Members of the OGTL take time out during a successful trip to the ASGCT annual meeting in Chicago to relax and (literally) share a drink on the 22nd floor rooftop bar of London House. OGTL group members presented two posters and a talk at this years meeting, so cocktails earned all round! (Left to right) Dwani Patel, Chris Reid, Hanmeng Zhang, Daniel Lipinski, and Emily Nettesheim.