News

2025/02/19

Anna and Leen’s paper on stressed microglia was published in Neuron, which made it to the top 10 trending papers in PubMed and was covered by news outlets, including Le Monde, El Pais, MSN, Yahoo News, The Sun, The Jerusalem Post, Fox 28, Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Il Messaggero, and la Repubblica. We also were previewed by Drs. Gilbert Di Paolo and Joseph W. Lewcock.

 

2024/12/10

Our lab has its first R01!

 

2024/11/13

Lab hike on Mt. Taurus!

 

2024/11/12

Anna and Leen‘s paper is accepted in Neuron!

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

2024/10/29

Welcoming the rotation student, Vik, from the MCD Program!

 

2024/10/07

Welcoming the rotation students, Reza and Noushid, from the Biochemistry Program!

   

 

2024/05/20

Pinar received the PSC CUNY Enhanced Award!

 

2024/03/15

Jack’s application to access the National Network of Cryo-ET Centers is accepted!

 

2024/03/13

Pinar received 2 ASRC Equipment Grants, one as Lead and one as co-PI!

 

2024/03/08

Lab’s first research paper is out in preprint!

Congratulations to the first authors, Anna and Leen!

 

2024/03/01

Anna received a Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) and an ASRC Private Donor Student Conference Travel Award. 

Two awards in one month. Congratulations, Anna!

 

2024/01/01

Welcoming the rotation student Denice from the MCD Program!

 

2023/12/08

Lab Holiday Party!

 

2023/10/25

Jack joins Ayata Lab as a co-mentored student with Dr. Amedee des Georges at NYU. Welcome Jack!

 

2023/09/01

Welcoming the rotation student Siaresh from the CNC Program!

 

2023/06/13

Dvir received an Excellence in Neuroscience Research Award at Queens College.

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

2023/04/15

Ayesha is named a Harry S. Truman Scholar!

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

2023/03/13

Pinar received a Pilot Project Grant from the MSSM/CUNY Climate Change Health Impact Interdisciplinary Research Initiative!

 

2023/03/10

Anna and Leen received the Early Research Initiative Pre-Dissertation Science Research Award!

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

2023/02/21

Pinar received an Interdisciplinary Research Grant with Susana, Dan, Jia, and Peter to build a “Mouse city!”

 

2023/02/10

Welcoming the rotation student Mitali from the Biochemistry Program!

 

2023/02/10

Dvir will begin his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in 2023!

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

2022/09/15

Welcoming Ayesha as an undergrad student!

 

2022/09/10

Anna and Leen passed their First-Level Exam!

 

2022/08/15

Pinar received an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant from Alzheimer’s Association!

 

2022/06/17

Happy Birthday, Anna! Cake by our resident artist, Thi.

 

 

2022/06/17

Lab Summer Party

 

2022/06/10

Dvir won the competition for best presentation at the 2022 CUNYSciCom Communicating Your Science Symposium!

 

2022/05/15

Pinar received the Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the CUNY Research Foundation.

 

2022/04/15

Welcoming Alekhya and Suhani this summer!

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2022/04/15

Leen and Anna officially joined the lab. Welcome back!!

   

 

2022/02/09

Our lab celebrates former, finishing, and starting rotation students and perhaps the end of COVID-19.

 

2022/02/07

Big day in the lab

 

2022/02/07

Ezekiel starts his rotation. Welcome, Ezekiel!

 

2022/01/12

Back to Zoom – Omicron

 

2022/01/04

Praveena starts her rotation. Welcome, Praveena!

 

2021/12/07

Anna starts her rotation. Welcome, Anna!

 

2021/12/06

Thi starts as lab manager. Welcome, Thi!

 

2021/12/01

Erna and Leen start their rotation. Welcome, Erna and Leen!

  

 

2021/11/04

Happy Diwali!

 

2021/11/02

Cryostat practice

 

2021/12/15

Swastik starts his rotation, and Dvir starts as a college assistant. Welcome Swastik and Dvir!

 

 

2021/07/19

Mid-Summer Happy Hour

 

2021/06/11

Hannah joins the lab as a CSURP student. Welcome, Hannah!

 

2021/02/22

Emily joins the lab as a Research Assistant (at the apex of a pandemic). Welcome, Emily!

 

2020/08/26

Hello World. Ayata Lab is born (in the middle of a pandemic)