2025

Februrary 2025

• Congratulations to Isabela to having her (first) first author manuscript ‘An Open Access Resource for Marmoset Neuroscientific Apparatus‘ accepted to Imaging Neuroscience ‘as is’ on the first submission, without revisions!!
• https://www.marmosetbrainconnectome.org/apparatus is now live!

January 2025

• Congratulations to Dr. Vinci Parks for successfully defending her PhD dissertation and starting her position as Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. We’re so proud of you!

2024

September 2024

• Vinci, Isabela, Michael, and Sarah present at the 2024 SimCo conference
  
• Welcomed Brooke to the lab for a CNUP rotation!
• David awarded the 2024 Simian Collective Young Investigator Award

July 2024

• Welcomed Simeon to the lab!

April 2024

• Isabela was recognized as Best Poster Presentation Award Winner at Pitt BioE Day.
  
• Liang, L., Zimmermann Rollin, I., Alikaya, A., Ho, J. C, Santini, T., Bostan, A. C., Schwerdt, H. N., Stauffer, W. R., Ibrahim, T. S., Pirondini, E., Schaeffer, D. J. (In press). An open-source MRI compatible frame for multimodal presurgical mapping in macaque and capuchin monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 
  
• Homanics, G. E., Park, J. E., Bailey, L., Schaeffer, D. J., Schaeffer, L., He, J., Li, S., Zhang, T., Haber, A., Spruce, C., Greenwood, A., Murai, T., Schultz, L., Mongeau, L., Ha, S-K., Oluoch, J., Stein, B., Choi, S. H., Huhe, H., Thathiah, A., Strick, P. L., Carter, G. W., Silva, A. C., Rizzo, S. J. S. (In Press). Early molecular events of autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease in marmosets with PSEN1 mutations. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

February 2024

• Parks, T. V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D. J. (2024). Noninvasive focal transgene delivery with viral neuronal tracers in the marmoset monkey. Cell Reports Methods, 4, 100709.

January 2024

• Vinci was awarded with the CNBC Career Development Award!
  
• Welcomed Michael to the lab!
  

2023

December 2023

• Papoti, D., Szczupak, D.,  Stanos, L. G. C., Chaim, K. T., Otaduy, M. C. G., Schaeffer, D. J., Vidoto, E. L. G., Tannus, A., Sliva, A. C. (2023). Segmented solenoid RF coils for MRI of ex vivo brain samples at ultrahigh field preclinical and clinical scanners. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open, 16, 100103.
  

November 2023

• Isabela was awarded the Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society Travel Grant.
  
• Society for Neuroscience
  
  Poster presentations:
  
  Pell, S.K.A., Letica, L., Szczupak, D., Park, J.E., Homanics, G.E., Strick, P.L., Carter, G.W., Sukoff Rizzo, S.J., Schaeffer, D.J., Silva, A.C. (2023, November) PET of genetically engineered marmosets expressing PSEN1 mutations. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Zimmermann Rollin, I., Parks, T.V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D.J. (2023, November) Effects of disrupting the blood-brain barrier in the marmoset monkey on parenchymal inflammation, behavior, and functional connectivity. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Parks, T.V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D. J. (2023, November). Non-invasive focal delivery of viral neuronal tracers in the marmoset monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  
• 2023 Marmoset Bioscience Symposium
  
  Isabela and Sarah were selected to participate in the Junior Scientist Talks:
  
  Pell, S.K.A., Letica, L., Szczupak, D., Park, J.E., Homanics, G.E., Strick, P.L., Carter, G.W., Sukoff Rizzo, S.J., Schaeffer, D.J., Silva, A.C. (2023, November) PET of genetically engineered marmosets expressing PSEN1 mutations. 2023 Marmoset Bioscience Symposium, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Zimmermann Rollin, I., Parks, T.V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D.J. (2023, November) Effects of disrupting the blood-brain barrier in the marmoset monkey on parenchymal inflammation, behavior, and functional connectivity. 2023 Marmoset Bioscience Symposium, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Poster presentations:
  
  Parks, T.V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D. J. (2023, November). Non-invasive focal delivery of viral neuronal tracers in the marmoset monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Pell, S.K.A., Letica, L., Szczupak, D., Park, J.E., Homanics, G.E., Strick, P.L., Carter, G.W., Sukoff Rizzo, S.J., Schaeffer, D.J., Silva, A.C. (2023, November) PET of genetically engineered marmosets expressing PSEN1 mutations. 2023 Marmoset Bioscience Symposium, Washington D.C., USA.
  
  Zimmermann Rollin, I., Parks, T.V., Szczupak, D., Choi, S., Schaeffer, D.J. (2023, November) Effects of disrupting the blood-brain barrier in the marmoset monkey on parenchymal inflammation, behavior, and functional connectivity. 2023 Marmoset Bioscience Symposium, Washington D.C., USA.

September 2023

• Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering
  
  I. Zimmermann Rollin, T. V. Parks, Diego Szczupak, Sang-Ho Choi, David J. Schaeffer (2023, September 22). Effects of disrupting the blood-brain barrier in the marmoset monkey on parenchymal inflammation, behavior, and functional connectivity. Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  
  Sarah won the Outstanding Presentation Award for the following presentation:
  S. K. A. Pell¹, L. Letica¹, D. Szczupak¹, Jung Eun Park¹, G. E. Homanics¹, P. L. Strick¹, G. W. Carter², S. J. Sukoff Rizzo¹, D. J. Schaeffer¹, A. C. Silva¹; University of Pittsburgh¹, The Jackson Laboratory² (2023, September 22). Imaging Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in genetically engineered marmosets expressing PSEN1 mutations using ¹¹C-PiB and ¹⁸F-FDG positron emission tomography. Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

• MWG Neuroimaging
  
  Parks, T.V. (2023, September 21). Noninvasive focal transgene delivery with viral neuronal tracers in the marmoset. MWG Neuroimaging, Pittsburgh, United States. 

August 2023

• Isabela was awarded the Department of Bioengineering Bevier Award
  
• Parks, T. V., Szuzupak, D., Choi, S. H., Alikaya, A., Mou, Y., Silva, A. C., & Schaeffer, D. J. (2023). Noninvasive disruption of the blood-brain barrier in the marmoset monkey. Communications Biology, 6(1), 806. 
  
• Rizzo, S. J. S., Homanics, G., Schaeffer, D. J., Schaeffer, L., Park, J. E., Oluoch, J., Zhang, T., Haber, A., Seyfried, N. T., Paten, B., Greenwood, A., Murai, T., Choi, S. H., Huhe, H., Kofler, J., Strick, P. L., Carter, G. W., Silva, A. C. (2023). Bridging the rodent to human translational gap: Marmosets as model systems for the study of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzhiemer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 9(3), e12417.
  

July 2023

• Welcomed Isabela to the lab!
  
• Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
  
  D. J. Schaeffer, L. R. Dubberley, L. K. Hayrynen Schaeffer, Jung Eun Park, G. E. Homanics, P. L. Strick, G. W. Carter, S. J. Sukoff Rizzo, A. C. Silva, and the MARMO-AD Consortium (2023, July). Assessing amyloid plaque burden in aging marmosets and genetically engineered PSEN1 mutation carriers using ¹¹C-PiB PET. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

February 2023

• Welcomed Vinci to the lab!

January 2023

• Welcomed Sarah to the lab!