October 2024 Melissa Franco and Andrew Piasecki packed their bags…to Sitges, Spain! Congratulations to our awesome graduate students for presenting their posters at the “Multifaceted Mitochondria” conference hosted by Cell Symposia.
September 2024 Welcome Jule Kiel to LAIR! Jule is a visiting student from the University of Hannover in Germany. She is a participant of the Northeastern-Hannover Exchange Program, which allows students from Northeastern and Hannover to expand their lab skills globally, in a university across the world! https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/hannover-exchange-program-provides-students-international-laboratory-experiences-2/
June 2024 Congratulations to the REALTIME 2024 cohort on completing the 7-week program! They worked on developing foundational lab skills, designing experiments, and communicating their data.
May 2024 Congratulations to rising third-year Matthew Palmer for securing funding for his research work in the lab. Awesome work Matthew!
September 2023 Dillon Nishigaya, from the REALTIME 2022 cohort, has embarked on a collaboration with NASA to investigate the impact of spaceflight on the female reproductive system. Read about it here! https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/01/05/space-travel-fertility-impact-nasa/
June 2023 Congratulations to these undergraduate students, Warda Ahmed, Natalie Aronson, Tiffany Chen, Katelin Monroy, Deborah Obisanya, and Matthew Palmer, on completing the REALTIME program with the mentorship of Dr. Lindsay Mehrmanesh and Dr. Matthias Schlichting! These students spent their summer developing foundational research skills and investigating the effects of hypoxia on ovarian function.
March 2023 We are proud to announce that Andrew Piasecki, a second-year PhD student, has been selected to be a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 2023 Fausto Capelluto successfully defended his PhD, becoming the first graduate of Northeastern’s B.S. - PhD. program. Great work Fausto!
June 2022 Congratulations to Hannah Alberico for successfully defending her PhD! Hannah will be taking a role as a Senior Scientist at Abbvie Pharmaceuticals next month.
February 2021 We are proud to announce that Judene Thomas, a second year PhD student in our lab, has been recognized by the college of Science at Northeastern University as a talented scholar in this article: https://phd.northeastern.edu/profile/judene-thomas/. During Judene’s time in our lab, she has developed an extremely promising research plan and is working diligently on experiments centered around the role that mitochondria play in ovarian cancer.
February 2021 Fausto Capelluto, a first year PhD student in our lab, has been recognized as a stand-out PhD student by the College of Science at Northeastern University in this article: https://phd.northeastern.edu/profile/fausto-capelluto/. Fausto has been a highly active member of our lab for several years during his time as an undergraduate, but now as a PhD student, he is making even more rapid progress on the groundbreaking research featured in this interview. Great work, Fausto!
August 2020 Congratulations to our PhD student, Judene Thomas, on being a 2020-2021 BSCP HOPE Scholarship Recipient; awarded by Harvard Medical School. Judene is a very talented young scientist, and we are honored to have her as a member of our lab. Her HOPE scholarship is certainly well-deserved! Here is a description of this award:
“The Hope Scholarships are awarded to underrepresented minority students, enrolled in high school, college, medical, graduate or professional school, who have demonstrated an interest in biomedical, biotechnology or other science-related fields and have had direct involvement in BSCP. The students selected are highly motivated, have recognized potential and seek opportunities for educational advancement.”
Judene’s HOPE Scholarship was featured here: https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/phd-student-judene-thomas-biomedical-science-career-program-hope-scholarship/
August 2020 Congratulations to Dr. Sofia Annis and Dr. Zoe Fleischmann (both from the Khrapko lab) on defending their PhD’s!
April 2020 Alisha published in Heliyon on the influence of mitochondrial activity on germ line specification in pluripotent stem cells. See link below!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020304965?via%3Dihub
July 2019 Sofia and Zoe published in PNAS! Congratulations! This response paper addresses paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA. Link below:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/15/1821436116
https://figshare.com/s/2c0d2508a0245b5e118f
July 2019 Fluorescence-activated mitochondria sorting (FAMS), a technique developed and validated in the LAIR, has been published in Communications Biology. Congratulations to all who contributed; especially to the co-first authors, Julie and Alisha! Link to publication below:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0513-4
May 2019 Congratulations to our graduates Dr. Alisha Bothun and Dr. Julie MacDonald on the completion of their PhD’s!
QDR. MACDONALD AND DR. BOTHUN AT THEIR HOODING AND GRADUATION CEREMONY (right).
May 2019 Congratulations to Taichi Akahori on his publication in Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health.
April 2019 Congratulations to Julie MacDonald on her publication in Fertility and sterility.
March 2019 Julie MacDonald and Jessica Martin presented their research at the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) Annual Meeting in Paris, France.
February 2019 Congratulations to Alisha Bothun on her publication in Histochemistry and cell biology.
February 2019 Congratulations to Jessica Martin on her publication in Cells.
February 2019 Hannah Sheehan was invited and gave a talk at the University Hospital Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany.
Spring/Summer 2019 Congratulations for BS/Ph.D. student Fausto Capelluto on receiving the following awards:
Lucille Zanghi ’72 and Jim Dow ‘72 21st Century Scholarship 2019
HSF (Hispanic Scholarship Fund) Scholar 2019
Advanced Research/Creative Endeavor Award (UGRCE)
Summer Scholars Independent Research Fellowship (SSIRF)
October 2018 Congrats to graduate student Julie MacDonald and two LAIR undergraduate students, Nikki and Carleigh, on their publication in the Journal of Ovarian Research!
2018 Congratulations to lab alumna Christine Faraci and collaborator Sofia Annis on their recently accepted paper in Reproduction, Impact of exercise on oocyte quality in the POLG mitochondrial DNA mutator mouse.
May 2018 Alisha Bothun's paper was accepted to Stem Cells and Development, and her image was chosen for the cover!
2018 The Northeastern chapter of the College Diabetes Network (CDN), advised by Dr. Woods, has officially launched! See the recent article about it here or their Facebook page for more info.
2018 Woods lab awarded prestigious NSF CAREER award for work on mitochondrial heterogeneity and function. Congratulations to all graduate student and undergraduate student contributors on their excellent scientific efforts!
In December 2017, the Woods lab celebrated Christine Faraci as she graduated with her Master's degree! Congratulations Christine!
2017 Annual meeting for the Society for Reproductive Investigation was held in Orlando, Florida on March 15-18 where Alisha Bothun and Christine Faraci presented research posters, and Julie MacDonald presented a talk.
THIS AUGUST WE SAID GOODBYE TO OUR 2017 REU STUDENTS SOUMBA TRAORE AND LAKSHMI BATACHARI. THEY DID GREAT WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH THE KHRAKPO LAB RESEARCHING MITOCHONDRIAL DAMAGE OVER TIME IN CULTURE CELLS. CONGRATS SOUMBA AND LAKSHMI!
2016 REU STUDENT EDUARDO BIALA, JR PRESENTED HIS SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT AT THE ANNUAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS 2016 IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA NOVEMBER 9-12TH, 2016. CONGRATS, ED AND GREAT JOB THIS SUMMER!
LAIR co-director Dr. Jonathan Tilly was the recipient of the Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award. Jon was honored at the Academic Honors Convocation for his contributions to the field with national and international significance.
The NSF awarded Honorable Mentions to Sofia Annis and Robert Logan, graduate students of the Khrapko Lab, for their Graduate Research Fellowship proposals. Congratulations!
Chapter contribution to the Encyclopedia of Cancer on granulosa cell tumors in press- nice work, Alisha!
2016 Annual Meeting for the Society for Reproductive Investigation was held in Montreal, Canada March 16-19th. Graduate students Julie MacDonald and Alisha Truman presented a talk and a poster, respectively.
Society for Reproductive Investigation 2015 Scientist Dr. Kshama Chandrasekhar was awarded with the 2015 SRI/Pfizer President's Presenter Award! Congrats Kshama!
