News from the Lab

2024

2022/2023

  • Congratulations to former postdoc, Dr. Emily Rothwell, now Assistant Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh !

  • First author paper entitled “Letrozole treatment alters hippocampal gene expression in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).” by Mélise Edwards! Congratulations Mélise ! check out the paper representing an incredible amount of work

  • Congratulations to Audrey Bulger for her Honor thesis

  • Congratulations to Nick Kania, new lab manager

  • Congratulations to Shay Doherty, AnnaMelora St Gorge , Jared potty for their Honors theses and Nicholas Kania for his independent project !

  • Congratulations to Shay Doherty on her way to Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

2020/2021

  • First author paper entitled “Sex differences in cognitive aging: a 4-year longitudinal study in marmosets ” by Dr. Emily Rothwell! Congratulations Emily! check out the paper summarizing many years of work. Huge dataset providing evidence for sex differences in the trajectories of cognitive decline in the marmoset.

  • Editorial for the Special Issue on Aging, Cognitive Decline, and Neuropathology in Nonhuman Primates, co-edited by Dr. Carol Shively, Dr. Agnès Lacreuse, Dr. Brett Frye, Dr. Emily Rothwell and Dr. Manuel Moro.

  • “Comparative neuropathology in aging primates: a perspective”, important review from our collaborators in the Hof lab, with contributions from many experts in the field

  • First author paper entitled “The marmoset as an important primate model for longitudinal studies of neurocognitive aging” by Dr. Emily Rothwell! Congratulations Emily!

  • Dr. Lacreuse explains why nonhuman primates are essential for Alzheimer’s disease and women’s health research.

  • Congratulations to our graduating seniors, Ally Veautour, Jennifer Jeong and Taylor Schmeizer, who are on their way to vet school!

  • Dr. Emily Rothwell is awarded an SBN travel award (to travel next year) and a CNS Teaching Fellowship for Fall 2021 to teach "Sex and Gender in the Brain!

  • Mélise Edwards is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an HHMI fellowship, Wendy Helmer Award, SBN Welcome Initiative, a Predissertation award, an OSSD travel award, Early Career Award from the NSB program, entry into the Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP Associate), a CRF travel award and a spot in the CRF Grant Writing Program!

  • Marmosets in the news ! (with Agnès, interview here)


2019

  • Emily Rothwell wins a postdoctoral NIH F32 award!

  •  Zachary Marciano successfully defends his Masters' thesis !

  • Alumn Matthew LaClair publishes his dissertation work in eNEURO 

  • Alumn Nicole Gervais awarded a New Investigator Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)

  • Graduate student Mélise Edwards receives a Spaulding-Smith fellowship

  • Michaela Casey receives a Lee-SIP fellowship

  • Postdoc Emily Rothwell receives a travel award to the OSSD meeting

2018

  • Alyssa Carlotto awarded a Masters degree!

  • Brianna Healey awarded a Masters degree!

Recent Papers

2023

  • Edwards, M., Lam., S., Ranjan, R., Pereira, M., Babbitt, C., Lacreuse, A. (2023).  Letrozole treatment alters hippocampal gene expression in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Hormones and Behavior.Jan;147:105281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105281. PMCID: PMC9839488.

  • Freire-Cobo, C., Rothwell, E.S., Varghese, M., Janssen, G.M.W., Edwards, M.E., Lacreuse, A. and Hof, P.R. (2023).  Neuronal vulnerability to brain aging and neurodegeneration in cognitively impaired marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus). Neurobiology of Aging 123:49-62. 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.12.001. PMCID: PMC9892246

2022

  • Rothwell ES, Workman KP, Wang D, Lacreuse A. Sex differences in cognitive aging: a 4-year longitudinal study in marmosets. Neurobiol Aging. 2022 Jan;109:88-99. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.09.015. Epub 2021 Sep 20. PMID: 34700200; PMCID: PMC8841951.

2021

  • Shively CA, Lacreuse A, Frye BM, Rothwell ES, Moro M. Nonhuman primates at the intersection of aging biology, chronic disease, and health: An introduction to the American Journal of Primatology Special Issue on aging, cognitive decline, and neuropathology in nonhuman primates. Am J Primatol. 2021 Nov;83(11):e23309. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23309. Epub 2021 Aug 17. PMID: 34403529.

  • Rothwell ES, Freire-Cobo C, Varghese M, Edwards M, Janssen WGM, Hof PR, Lacreuse A. The marmoset as an important primate model for longitudinal studies of neurocognitive aging. Am J Primatol. 2021 Nov;83(11):e23271. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23271. Epub 2021 May 21. PMID: 34018622; PMCID: PMC8550997.

  • Freire-Cobo C, Edler MK, Varghese M, Munger E, Laffey J, Raia S, In SS, Wicinski B, Medalla M, Perez SE, Mufson EJ, Erwin JM, Guevara EE, Sherwood CC, Luebke JI, Lacreuse A, Raghanti MA, Hof PR. Comparative neuropathology in aging primates: A perspective. Am J Primatol. 2021 Nov;83(11):e23299. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23299. Epub 2021 Jul 13. PMID: 34255875; PMCID: PMC8551009.


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2019