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!