What are we up to?

June 2024

  • Kevin passed his qualifying exam and advanced to PhD candidacy - congrats, Kevin!

March 2024

  • Alex is awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alzheimer’s Association - congrats, Alex!

November 2023

  • Brittany and Sarah’s paper is published in Trends in Molecular Medicine - congrats!

OCTOBER 2023

  • Catarina’s paper is published in Molecular Psychiatry - congrats to the whole team!

August 2023

  • Brittany is awarded an F31/NRSA from the NIA - congrats, Brittany!

July 2023

  • Kevin Spehar joins the lab for his PhD studies - welcome, Kevin!

December 2022

  • The lab posts 2 preprints - congrats Catarina, Sarah and the whole team!

November 2022

  • Brittany presents a nanosymposium talk at SFN!

  • Catarina presents twice at SFN - congrats on the Trainee Professional Development Award!

October 2022

  • Catarina is awarded a competitive Trainee Professional Development Award from SFN - congrats! We’ll be posting a preprint manuscript detailed her exciting results soon!

June 2022

  • Congratulations, Sarah, on a successful thesis proposal!

October 2021

  • Catarina presented her work at the Society for Neuroscience meeting

  • Ralphyn has joined the lab for her Master’s - Welcome to the lab!

August 2021

  • Welcome, Marianna! - Rotation Student

July 2021

  • Sarah is awarded a Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research from the NIH/NIA - Congratulations, Sarah!

June 2021

  • Welcome Jake! - Undergraduate Research Assistant

May 2021

  • Congratulations, Brittany, on a successful thesis proposal!

April 2021

  • Our lab is awarded new R01 funding from the NIH/NIA!

  • Sarah has joined the lab for her PhD studies - Welcome to the lab!

March 2021

  • Congratulations, Jeffrey, for being accepted into PhD programs!

  • Christos and Emma complete their rotations in the lab

January 2021

  • Welcome, Christos! - PhD Rotation Student

  • Welcome, Emma! - PhD Rotation Student

November 2020

  • Sarah completes her rotation in the lab

September 2020

  • Brittany is an Aging T32 Fellow - Congratulations!

August 2020

  • Welcome, Sarah! - PhD Rotation Student

May 2020

  • Julia was awarded the Fordham Dean’s Summer Research Grant

  • Brittany has joined the lab for her PhD studies - Welcome to the lab!

February 2020

  • Our lab is awarded R01 funding from the NIH/NIA!

  • Our lab is awarded the Black Family Stem Cell Institute Pilot Award

  • Congratulations to Yihang & Annie for being accepted into PhD programs!

January 2020

  • Welcome, Philip! - MD/PhD Student

November 2019

  • Welcome Julia! - Undergraduate Research Assistant

October 2019

  • Brittany completes her rotation in the lab

August 2019

  • Welcome, Brittany! - PhD Rotation Student

July 2019

  • Welcome, Jeffrey! - Associate Researcher

May 2019

  • Catarina presents a poster at the 11th Annual Neuroscience Retreat hosted by the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine

April 2019

  • The Castellano and Ahfeldt labs celebrate their grant submissions with a Potluck Happy Hour!

March 2019

  • Danielle, Yihang, and Catarina volunteer at the 7th Annual Mount Sinai Brain Fair

  • Catarina presents at the 14th International Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease in her home country of Portugal

February 2019

  • Chris completes his rotation in the lab

October 2018

  • Welcome, Yihang! - Masters Student

  • Welcome, Annie! - Research Intern

March 2018

  • Our lab is awarded funding by the BrightFocus Foundation!