Lyndsey Lipson (16th graduate student-GPN) joins the lab on April 9th, 2026
\nLayla Nguyen (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP funding for Summer 2026 (4\/03\/2026)
\nMia Sandfort (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP funding for Summer 2026 (4\/03\/2026)
\nMarcus Kankkunen (Medical Student) received the Medical Student Research Summer Program Award (04\/01\/2026)
\nMingqi Sha received the Brenton R. Lutz Award for Outstanding Achievement in Neurobiology (03\/24\/2026)
\nSabrina Kistler successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (03\/10\/2026)
\nAbigail Wagner (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP funding for Spring 2026 (1\/14\/2026)
\nWin Rati (Bora) Oo (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP funding for Spring 2026 (1\/14\/2026)<\/p>\n
Sabrina Kistler wins Best Poster Award at The Synapse Symposium (11\/21\/2025) Marcus Kankkunen (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP for fall 2024 (10\/2\/2024) Marcus Kankkunen and Arya Gupta (Undergraduate) were awarded UROP funding for fall 2023 (9\/27\/2023) Shawna’s paper “Tight control of the APP-Mint1 interaction in regulating amyloid production” has been deposited to BioRxiv<\/a> Andressa’s paper officially accepted to PLOS.Genetics<\/a> (accepted 10\/1\/2021, published 11\/1\/2021) Christina Gallo received the 2020 Trainee Professional Development Award from Society for Neuroscience (12\/23\/2020) Andressa Mota and Angela attended the Gordon Research Conference: Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease in Tuscany, Italy (06\/2019) Our R01 on Alzheimer’s disease (PI: Uwe Beffert, Co-PI: Angela Ho) is officially funded (8\/2018). The preliminary data for this grant was generated through the generous support of the Harold and Margaret Southerland Alzheimer\u2019s Research Fund <\/a> Lauren Scrandis (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2017 Angela is appointed the Associate Chair of Neurobiology (09\/2016) Greg Dillon successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis (12\/2015) Tyler Ash (masters student) joins the lab in Sept 2014 Our R21 on CLASP2\u00a0(PI: Angela Ho, Co-PIs: Uwe Beffert and Tarik Haydar) is officially funded (12\/2013) Greg passed his qualification examination (12\/2012) Jeremy Chaufty successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis (11\/2011) Jeremy presented poster at SFN, San Diego (11\/2010)
\nMingqi Sha receives The Synapse Symposium Travel Award (11\/07\/2025)
\nSabrina Kistler and Mingqi Sha receives the Biology Travel Award (10\/28\/2025)
\nNegar Rahmani awarded Neurophotonics Travel Award (9\/17\/2025)
\nSabrina receives the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (8\/15\/2025)
\nJared Tague received the 2025 Master’s Research Award<\/a>
\nNegar Rahmani awarded the Neurophotonics Research Trainee Fellowship<\/a> (05\/29\/2025)
\nRachel Bozadjian (Bioinformatics Master’s Program) and Riya Jadhav (Bioinformatics Master’s Program) join the lab on May 26th, 2025
\nHannah Axten successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (05\/21\/2025)<\/span>
\nWin Rati (Bora) Oo (Undergraduate) was awarded the Mary Erskine Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (5\/20\/2025)
\nHannah Hawks-Mayer (15th graduate student-GPN) joins the lab on May 19th, 2025
\nHannah’s paper officially accepted to Frontiers in Neuroscience<\/a> (accepted 05\/12\/2025)
\nMarcus Kankkunen (Undergraduate) was awarded the Undergraduate Research Award in Neurobiology 4\/23\/2025
\nAwarded GSI Pilot Grant (04\/16\/2025)
\nWin Rati (Bora) Oo and Abigail Wagner (Undergraduate) were awarded UROP funding for summer 2025 (4\/8\/2025)
\nSabrina Kistler was awarded the Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship<\/a> (03\/2025)<\/p>\n2024<\/h3>\n
\nNegar Rahmani is awarded the GWISE’s Professional Development Grant
\nJared Tague (Biology Master’s Program) joins the lab on August 30th, 2024
\nGavin’s paper officially accepted to Journal of Neuroscience<\/a> (accepted 08\/26\/2024)
\nChristina and Sabrina’s paper officially accepted to PLoS Genetics<\/a> (accepted 06\/21\/2024)
\nOur MPI R01 is officially funded 06\/01\/2024
\nNegar Rahmani (14th graduate student-GPN) joins the lab on May 9, 2024
\nAnna-Maria Marinescu (Undergraduate) was awarded the Undergraduate Research Award in Neurobiology 4\/18\/2024
\nGavin’s paper “Beyond glycolysis: Aldolase A is a novel effector in reelin mediated dendritic development” has been deposited to BioRxiv<\/a>
\nGavin Lagani successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis (01\/17\/2024)<\/span>
\nArya Gupta (Undergraduate) was awarded the Lorem E. World Research Award for spring 2024 (UROP) 1\/5\/2024<\/p>\n2023<\/h3>\n
\nMingqi Sha (13th graduate student-Neurobiology) joins the lab on September 1, 2023
\nShawna’s paper officially accepted to Brain Research<\/a> (accepted 07\/20\/2023)
\nHannah Axten was awarded the Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship (03\/2023)
\nChristina’s paper “<\/span>Heterogeneity of novel APOER2 isoforms specific to Alzheimer\u2019s disease impact cellular and synaptic states” has been deposited to BioRxiv<\/a><\/p>\n2022<\/h3>\n
\nMarcus Kankkunen (Undergraduate) was awarded UROP funding for fall 2022 (9\/28\/2022)
\nChanna Bao (12th graduate student-Pharmacology) joins the lab on August 1, 2022
\nEvelyn Harper (Undergraduate) was awarded the Lorem E. World Research Award (UROP) 5\/31\/2022
\nKeri’s paper officially accepted to Journal of Neuroscience<\/a> (accepted 4\/6\/2022)
\nChristina Gallo successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (03\/28\/2022)<\/span>
\nSabrina Kistler (11th graduate student-Pharmacology) joins the lab in March 9, 2022
\nChristina’s paper officially accepted to Genomics<\/a> (accepted \/2\/15\/2022)<\/span><\/p>\n2021<\/h3>\n
\nChristina receives the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (10\/14\/2021)
\nShawna Henry successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (07\/30\/2021)
\nKeri Omuro successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (07\/28\/2021)
\nOur R21 is officially funded 04\/22\/2021
\nChristina’s NIA-F31 is officially funded 04\/07\/2021
\nShawna, co-first author on the manuscript “Targeting the APP-Mint2 protein-protein interaction with a peptide based-inhibitor reduces amyloid-\u03b2 formation” is accepted to Journal of American Chemical Society<\/a> (accepted 11\/30\/2020; published 1\/5\/2021)<\/p>\n2020<\/h3>\n
\nAndressa Mota successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (12\/2\/2020)
\nAndressa’s paper on Forkhead box R1-mediated stress response linked to a case of human microcephaly and brain atrophy has been deposited to BioRxiv<\/a>
\nAngela, co-first author on the manuscript “APP family regulates neuronal excitability and synaptic plasticity but not neuronal survival” is accepted to Neuron<\/a> (accepted 08\/13\/2020 and published 09\/04\/2020). Feature Preview Neuron<\/a>
\nChristina’s review paper on ApoER2:Functional Tuning through Splicing accepted to Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience<\/a> (accepted 07\/13\/2020 and published 07\/31\/2020)
\nShivani Rao was awarded the Bernard Kutner Award – Sargent College (05\/2020)
\nHannah Waxman (10th graduate student-Neurobiology) joins the lab in April 2020
\nShawna Henry was awarded Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship (04\/2020)
\nEmily Kim and Anna Natrakul were awarded UROP funding for summer 2020<\/p>\n2019<\/h3>\n
\nShawna Henry attended the FENS meeting on Understanding and Targeting AD in Copenhagen, Denmark (05\/2019)
\nShivani Raghunath received the Mary Erskine Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (04\/2019)
\nAndressa Mota received the CAS travel award and BU Women’s Guild Scholarship Award (04\/2019)
\nAmy’s paper accepted to Scientific Reports<\/a> (04\/2019)
\nGavin Lagani (9th graduate student-Neurobiology) joins the lab in April 2019
\nShivani Raghunath (undergraduate researcher) awarded The Mary Erskine Unhttps:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/holab\/ho-lab\/news\/dergraduate Research Award for summer 2019
\nShawna Henry received the Brenton R. Lutz Award for Outstanding Achievement in Neurobiology (03\/2019)
\nChristina Gallo attended the AD\/PD meeting in Lisbon, Portugal (03\/2019)
\nShawna Henry was awarded The Brain Prize and FENS stipend to attend the FENS meeting on Understanding and Targeting AD (03\/2019)
\nAndressa Mota was awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to attend the Gordon Research Conference: Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease (02\/2019)<\/p>\n2018<\/h3>\n
\nShawna Henry receives Best Poster Award <\/a> – Neurobiology of Brain Disorders, Spain (08\/2018)
\nAngela Ho presented a poster at the GRC – Cell Biology of the Neuron, Waterville Valley, NH (6\/2018)
\nKeri Omuro presented a poster at the GRC – Lipoprotein Metabolism in the Brain and Circulation and Its Role in Disease, Waterville Valley, NH (6\/2018)
\nChristina Gallo (8th graduate student-Pharmacology) joins the lab in May 2018
\nAndressa Mota presented a poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting – Nuclear Organization and Function (5\/2018)
\nLauren Scrandis (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2018
\nShivani Raghunath (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2018<\/p>\n2017<\/h3>\n
\nJulia Hacker (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2017
\nAlice Chiang (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2017
\nFeodora Bertherat (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2017
\nAmy Lin successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (5\/2017)
\nGreg\u2019s paper accepted to Neuron<\/a> (02\/2017)<\/p>\n2016<\/h3>\n
\nAngela, Uwe, Keri and Sophie attends the GRC-Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Meeting in Girona, Spain (08\/2016)
\nShawna Henry (7th graduate student-Cell\/Molecular) joins the lab in June 2016
\nAngela Ho received tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Biology (5\/2016)
\nAlice Chiang (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2016
\nChristopher Zoppo (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2016
\nGreg accepts position at Biogen (3\/2016)
\nAngela Ho and Uwe Beffert receives “The Harold and Margaret Southerland Alzheimer\u2019s Research Fund” http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/winter-spring16\/gift-recognizes-familys-struggle-with-alzheimers\/<\/a><\/p>\n2015<\/h3>\n
\nGreg Dillon and Amy Lin presented posters at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Chicago (10\/2015)
\nOur R21 on FOXR1\u00a0 (PI: Angela Ho, Co-PIs: Uwe Beffert and Tarik Haydar) is officially funded
\nKerilyn (Keri)\u00a0Omuro (6th<\/sup> graduate student-Neuroscience) joins the lab in May 2015
\nCongratulations Keri on winning the NSF Graduate\u00a0Research Fellowship (04\/2015)
\nTyler completes his Master’s degree (04\/2015)
\nCamila Tyminski successfully defended her Honor’s thesis in BMB (04\/2015)
\nAngela Ho receives the Patricia McLellan Leavitt Research Award – Boston University (02\/2015)
\nRahul Agarwal (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2015
\nConnor Kenny (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2015
\nConnor Kenny (undergraduate researcher) accepted to\u00a0the\u00a0Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Summer Program (2\/2015)<\/p>\n2014<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAndressa Mota (5th<\/sup> graduate student-BMB) joins the lab in July 2014
\nGreg presented poster at Gordon Conference in Neural Development, Rhode Island (08\/2014)
\nCamila Tyminski (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2014
\nJohn Kambouris successfully defended his Honor’s thesis in Biology\u00a0(04\/2014)
\nSarah\u2019s paper accepted to JBC<\/a> (4\/2014)
\nOur R01 (PI: Angela Ho) is officially funded (2\/2014)
\nSarah accepts position at Harvard Medical School (1\/2014)<\/p>\n2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAmy Lin (4th<\/sup> graduate student-Pharmacology\/Neuroscience) joins the lab in November 2013
\nAngela\u2019s postdoctoral mentor Thomas S\u00fcdhof received the Nobel Prize in Medicine <\/a>(10\/2013)
\nSarah Sullivan successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (10\/2013)
\nCamila Tyminski (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2013
\nJohn Kambouris (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2013
\nSarah spoke at the Protein Trafficking & Neurodegenerative Disease ARC symposia, BUSM (06\/2013)
\nJosefa Sullivan (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for spring 2013
\nSarah and Greg presented posters at Keystone Symposia, New Mexico (2\/2013)
\nSophie Theodora Beffert is born (1\/2013)<\/p>\n2012<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nUwe\u2019s paper accepted to J Neuroscience <\/a>(8\/2012)
\nSarah presented poster at Gordon Conference, MA (08\/2012)
\nJosefa Sullivan (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer and fall 2012
\nJohn Kambouris (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2012
\nTina accepts position at Biogen (7\/2012)
\nJeremy and Sarah\u2019s paper accepted to J Neuroscience <\/a>(5\/2012)
\nJeremy accepts position at Berg Biosystems (3\/2012)
\nTina\u2019s paper accepted to PNAS<\/a> (1\/2012)
\nHena Choudhry (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for spring 2012<\/p>\n2011<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAngela\u2019s review paper with Jie Shen accepted to Trends in Molecular Medicine <\/a>(07\/2011)
\nJosefa Sullivan (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2011
\nSarah passed her qualification examination (3\/2011)<\/p>\n2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAngela\u2019s co-author paper accepted to J Neurochemistry <\/a>(10\/2010)
\nGreg Dillon (3rd<\/sup> graduate student-Neurobiology) joins the lab in Sept 2010
\nDomenic Filingeri (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2010
\nDana Simmons (undergraduate researcher) awarded UROP funding for summer 2010
\nAngela\u2019s co-author paper accepted to PNAS<\/a> (3\/2010)<\/p>\n2009<\/strong><\/h3>\n