
News from the Lab
2024
Congratulations to Abigail Monroy Duenas, recipient of an NIH supplement to support her grad studies !
Congratulations to Hannah Cournoyer, recipient of an IALS Translational Graduate Fellowship !
Congratulations to Shreya Thakur for her Honors thesis, on her way to Georgetown University !
Congratulations to Jordan Amato, Grace Rooney and Kayla Bioh for their independent studies !
Congratulations to Dominika Brzozowska, on her way to vet school in Scotland !
Congratulations to Allison Paternoster , on her way to Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She will join lab alumni Christina Chamberlain, Shay Doherty, Jennifer Jeong, and Taylor Schmeizer to train at the top vet School in the US !
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.