Nicole Tsai

Copenhagen Award 2022

We are pleased to announce that Nicole Tsai from Dr. Xin Duan’s lab has won the David and Joyce Copenhagen Prize for Best Published Paper in Visual Sciences for papers published in 2022. Nicole is being recognized for her Nature Neuroscience paper describing the development of Trans-Seq to identify retinotectal synapses.

This award was established to recognize a UCSF graduate student, postdoctoral fellow or clinical fellow mentored by a faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology who has published outstanding work in the area of laboratory visual sciences.
 
Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01068-8
 

Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Awards at ARVO 2023

Nicole also recently won the MIT Outstanding Poster Award at this year’s ARVO meeting in the BI Section.

MIT First Authors of the top five (5) scored abstracts scheduled as Poster presentations from each Scientific Section and Cross-sectional Group were eligible and invited to participate in the MIT Outstanding Poster Award Competition held at the ARVO Annual Meeting.

 
Our warmest congratulations to Nicole for her achievements!