Through the use of advanced imaging techniques, including super-resolution live imaging, two-photon imaging, MALDI MS imaging and other interdisciplinary imaging tools, our team is committed to exploring dynamic changes at the cellular level and intact organisms, metabolism during development and disease, and functional interactions between nanomaterials and biological system.
Recent Publications
Yijing Zhou, Vanessa B. Sanchez, Peining Xu, Thomas Roule, Marco Flores-Mendez, Brianna, Ciesielski4, Donna Yoo, Hiab Teshome, Teresa Jimenez, Shibo Liu, Mike Henne, Tim O’Brien, Ye He, Clementina Mesaros, Naiara Akizu. Altered lipid homeostasis is associated with cerebellar neurodegeneration in SNX14 deficiency. JCI Insights, 2024 Apr 16;9(10):e168594. PMID: 38625743
- W. Dong, A. Fekete, X. Chen, H. Liu, G. L. Beilhartz, X. Chen, S. Bahrampour, Y. Xiong, Q. Yang, H. Zhao, T. Kong, M. S. Morioka, G. Jung, J.-E. Kim, D. Schramek, P. B. Dirks, Y. Song, T.-H. Kim, Y. He, S. Wanggou, et al. A Designer Peptide against the EAG2–Kvβ2 Potassium Channel Targets the Interaction of Cancer Cells and Neurons to Treat Glioblastoma. Nat Cancer, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-023-00626-8.
- M. Pruvost, J. Patzig, C. Yattah, I. Selcen, M. Hernandez, H.-J. Park, S. Moyon, S. Liu, M. S. Morioka, L. Shopland, O. Al-Dalahmah, J. Bendl, J. F. Fullard, P. Roussos, J. Goldman, Y. He, J. L. Dupree, P. Casaccia. The Stability of the Myelinating Oligodendrocyte Transcriptome Is Regulated by the Nuclear Lamina. Cell Reports, 2023, 42 (8), 112848. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112848.
X. Chen, A. Momin, S. Wanggou, X. Wang, H.-K. Min, W. Dou, Z. Gong, J. Chan, W. Dong, J. J. Fan, Y. Xiong, K. Talipova, H. Zhao, Y. X. Chen, K. Veerasammy, A. Fekete, S. A. Kumar, H. Liu, Q. Yang, J. E. Son, et al. Mechanosensitive Brain Tumor Cells Construct Blood-Tumor Barrier to Mask Chemosensitivity. Neuron, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.10.007.
A. Jain, S. Kassem, R.S. Fisher, B. Wang, T.-D. Li, T. Wang, Y. He, S. Elbaum-Garfinkle, and R.V. Ulijn, Connected Peptide Modules Enable Controlled Co-Existence of Self-Assembled Fibers Inside Liquid Condensates, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144 (33), 15002–15007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c05897.
What's New
January 24th, 2025
Congratulations to Peiyang Liu being accepted into the Computational Biology Master Program of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)!
January 6th, 2025
Welcome Steven Xiang from JHU Biomedical Engineering to join back the lab as winter research intern!
January 2nd, 2025
Welcome Taybah Alam from CCNY/Macaulay Biochemistry joining the lab as undergraduate research intern!
December 24, 2024
Big congratulations to 2023 Imaging Camp students Olivia and Victor being accepted into Cornell University and UPenn!
October 1, 2024
Welcome Jehee Nam join the lab from Tenafly High School to conduct neuroscience research!
June 29, 2024
Big congratulations to Areej for being accepted into Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine! Wishing her all the best in this next step of her journey!
June 10, 2024
Big congratulations to 2023 Imaging Camp students Calum, Ethan and Simiao being accepted into Columbia University, Emory University and Johns Hopkins University!
June 3, 2024
We are excited to welcome Jiazhang Chen, who is joining our lab and MALDI Imaging Core as a postdoctoral research fellow and imaging specialist from Worcester Polytechnic Institute! Looking forward to working together.
May 30, 2024
Congratulations to Cory for graduating from CCNY/Macaulay Honors College with summa cum laude honors! Wishing him continued success in all future endeavors!
May 29, 2024
Our lab was thrilled to attend the 88th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology: Brain Body Physiology. Such an inspiring event!
May 21, 2024
A warm welcome to Peiyang Liu, who is joining our lab this summer as an intern from the Boston University Data Science program! Excited to have you with us, Peiyang!
April 20, 2024
We had a fantastic BBQ party with lab members, collaborators and their friends in Devon, PA! It was a great day filled with fun, food, flowers, and good company.
April 16, 2024
Congratulations to Naiara Akizu group at UPenn & CHOP for getting their recent work published in JCI Insights! Their study explores how Sorting Nexin 14 (SNX14) deficiency leads to cerebellar neurodegeneration by disrupting lipid homeostasis, shedding light on lipid metabolism defects as a potential cause of neurodegenerative disorders. We are proud to contribute with our MALDI imaging!
March 21, 2024
Big congratulations to Steven for being accepted into the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering program! Wishing him all the best in his exciting journey ahead!
January 10, 2024
Big congratulations to Steven Xiang for being named as one of the national 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors!! Thanks to the mentorship of Lele, Malia and Areej!
January 2, 2024
Welcome Tiffany Zhong joinin back to the lab this winter as a research intern from Princeton Neuroscience program!
October 25, 2023 Congratulations to Xi Huang’s Lab on their recent publication in Nature Cancer about a designer peptide that targets neuron-associated glioblastoma cells! Their work was featured as a Nature Cancer Cover Story. Many thanks to Dr. Rinat Abzalimov, Dr. Tai-De Li and Malia Morioka for their help on this project! Read the news here: The never-abating excitement for targeted therapies | Nature Cancer & Targeting network circuitry in glioma | Nature Cancer
September 13, 2023 We are happy to announce that Lele Xu is joining our lab as Dr. He’s first PhD student! Welcome Lele!
August 10, 2023 Congratulations to Malia and Olivia on completing the Velay Fellowship and presenting their hard work at the Velay 2023 Symposium!
August 9, 2023 Congratulations to Mathilde Pruvost and the Casaccia lab on their recent publication in Cell Reports about their exciting finding of LMNA/C being essential for the stability of myelinating oligodendrocytes! Thanks to Shibo and Malia for their help on the project!
July 17, 2023 We are happy to announce Areej Niaz as our new research assistant for the MALDI Imaging Core. Welcome Areej!
June 26, 2023 We are excited to welcome Lele Xu, a first year PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center, on her rotation in our lab. Welcome Lele!
June 15, 2023 We are excited to welcome Steven Xiang to our lab as a high school research intern. Welcome Steven!
June 12, 2023 We are excited to host the Advanced Bio-Imaging Camp, which is a week-long summer program for high school students and undergraduates that offers an opportunity for immersion in cutting-edge imaging technologies, neuroscience research, and interdisciplinary research. Hosted by Live Imaging Core and jointly by MRI Suite, MALDI imaging Core, Surface Science Core, and Nano Imaging Suite, the 2023 Imaging Camp (June 12-16) features lectures, seminars and laboratory hands-on. Participants include students from NY, NJ, CT, MA, MD, NC, SC. We are grateful for our lecturers and guest speakers from CUNY, Columbia, Rockefeller, Princeton, JHU, SUNY, UMass, NIH, Duke, Novant Health Medical Center, Yale and Shanghai Institute of Immunology.
May 10, 2023 CUNY Medical School student, Olivia Yeroushalmi, is joining the lab this summer as a Velay Scholar. Welcome Olivia!
May 10, 2023 Our lab member, Malia, has been awarded the Velay Women’s Scholars Research Fellowship! Congratulations!
March 6, 2023 We are happy to announce Shibo Liu as our new research assistant for the MALDI Imaging Core. Welcome Shibo!
- March 31, 2023
Congratulations to Tiffany for being accepted into NIH Sumer Internship Program! Two years in a row, good job!
- March 10, 2023
Cory is awarded the Harold Scheraga Honorary Distinction, congratulations!
- January 24, 2023
Thanks ASRC for awarding us the ASRC Core Facilities Personnel Grant (CFGP)! MALDI imaging core will get in gear soon!
- December 20, 2022
Cory was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Award! Congratulations!
- December 16, 2022
Congratulations to our lab member, Amos, on being accepted into Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering! Way to go!
- December 9, 2022
Our lab member, Muniyat, won the ASRC’s “best representing NYC” snow globe competition! So creative!
- November 18, 2022
We welcome students from the Macaulay Honors Seminar 3 class to visit the ASRC. Thank you to our tour hosts: Drs. Ricardo Toledo-Crow, Samantha Roberts, Tong Wang, Duke Shereen, Tai-De Li, Jia Liu, & Rinat Abzalimov!
- November 3, 2022
Congratulations to Xi Huang’s group from SickKids & U Toronto for their ground breaking work Mechanosensitive brain tumor cells construct blood-tumor barrier to mask chemosensitivity ! Glad that our MALDI imaging core and Live Imaging Core be part of it. Good job, Kelly and Yuki! And many thanks to those helped tremendously on this project: Jorge Morales, Tong Wang, Sheng Zhang, Zhi-Lun Liu, Avani Butala, and Elvina Abzalimov! Read more here.
- August 10, 2022
Congratulations to the Ulijn and Elbaum-Garfinkle labs on our collaborative study of self-assembling peptides being published in JACS! Very exciting interdisciplinary work!
- July 22, 2022
Our collaborative study with Ghada Soliman on regulatory mechanisms in pancreatic beta cells was published in Nutrients. Great work, everyone!