News & Announcements
04.14.2025This quarter we're shining the spotlight on Jocelynda Salvador, a senior predoctoral fellow in the Arispe. Click here to learn more about her.
03.01.2025The lab is excited to welcome Margherita Zamberlan to the team as a postdoctoral researcher. Margherita's academic career started at the Univeristy of Padova in Italy. Read more about her here.
02.24.2025Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered unique genetic and structural changes in endothelial cells in the brain after disrupting the blood-brain barrier, which may inform new therapeutic targets that promote blood-brain barrier repair after neurovascular injuries, according to a recent study.
01.26.2025Earlier this month Aya Masri, undergraduate researcher, attended the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University where she presented a poster titled, "Elucidating the Role of TAB11Ain Flow-Induced Endothelial Cell Polarity." We're excited to hear Aya is building up her network and sharing her research findings with the broader community.
01.21.2025Welcome Shodai Suzuki, new postdoctoral fellow in the Arispe lab. Shodai started on January 21. His academic training is in biochemistry. Shodai completed his PhD at Chiba University in Japan under the tutelage of Motoyuki Itoh. Read more about Shodai here.
01.13.2025The lab welcome's it's newest colleague: Henri Kolz. Henri joined the lab on January 13. His academic training is in biotechnology. Currently, he is working closely with Drs. Ana Mompeon and Mariaelena Valentino on projects related to vascular malformation and diseases. Read more about Henri here.
12.09.2024We are extremely proud and excited to announce Dr. Katiannah Moise presented her PhD Thesis Seminar to the Northwestern community on December 9, 2024. Plenty of bubbly drinks were shared among colleagues and friends in celebration of her. We wish her at the best of luck in the world on all future endeavors and have no doubt that she will do wonderful things as she moves forward in her career.
11.11.2024The lab welcomes Sakshi Jain, newly recruited Research Technologist! Read more about her here.
11.06.2024The lab welcomes Grace Seo, Research Aid and undergraduate student here at Northwestern! Read more about her here.
10.07.2024Katiannah's on how pharmacological and genetic perturbations of microtubule properties alter endothelial responses to laminar shear stress was recently published in Frontiers in Physiology. Read all about endothelial cell elongation and alignment in response to shear stress here.
09.09.2024Join us in welcoming Aiko Matsuda to the Arispe lab. Aiko joined the lab on September 9 as Research Technician II. We look forward to getting to know her. Visit the 'People' page to read her bio.
08.13.2024We are very proud and excited to celebrate with Katiannah Moise who has been recognized with the Driskill Graduate Program's Outstanding Student Service Award!
08.02.2024The lab welcomes Dr. Mariaelena Valentino, who is joining the Arispe lab this August 2024. Mariaelena work on Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) disease was recently published by Circulation Research. To learn more about her, visit the 'People' page.
07.18.2024When it’s easier for the graduate student to travel to the mice than for the mice to travel to the graduate student! Danielle Pi, MSTP fellow, visited NYU Langone Health and was hosted by the Ramkhelawon Lab, working closely with Dio and Yogi.
07.17.2024Millie Romay, postdoctoral fellow, presents a talk titled, "Elucidating of the Molecular Progression of Hereditary Vascular Dementia in a Novel Mouse Model," at the GRC meeting on Notch Signaling in Development, Regeneration and Disease hosted at Bates College in Maine.
06.25.2024We bid farewell to Sarah Johnston, a fantastic lab mate, and wish her all the best in Medical School!
06.18.2024Annmarie Dominguez is featured in the June issue of Feinberg's Breakthroughs Newsletter. Click here to read more about her pursuit of a deeper understanding of Cell Biology.
06.04.2024"All of the qualities that you currently possess have already prepared you to succeed in academia.” The Graduate School shines a light on Katiannah Moise. Read more about her research interests and what sits on her bedside table here.- 05.01.2024Katiannah receives the Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP) for Biotechnology Scholar award. She was selected as 1 out of 50 in over 1000 applicants to receive the industry mentorship dedicated to aiding high-achieving students explore industry careers.
04.22.2024From left to right: Vanessa, Ana, and Luisa. The Arispe lab joined 7 other institutions in a biannual meeting hosted in Paris funded by the Leducq network. The ReVAMP network meeting was hosted by Dr. Tournier-Lasserve, scientist at INSERM.
04.08.2024What fun! Science goes beyond the lab as the scientists join spectators across the world enjoying the must-see 2024 total-solar eclipse crossing the Midwest! The next one is not due until August 23, 2044.
02.23.2024Aryana Javaheri gave a wonderful performance at the NMO Winter Chamber Music Concert!
01.30.2024Aya Masri was awarded the Northwestern University Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grant on January 24, 2023. This research grant provides funding for select undergraduate research projects, including data collection, analysis, and synthesis of results. Aya’s independent project is titled “Identification of Novel, Mechanosensitive Proteins in the Human and Mouse Endothelium.”
12.29.2023What better way to say goodbye to 2023 than surrounded by your lab mates and a cocktail or two nearby?
12.19.2023Decreased activity of a specific signaling pathway in the brain vessels of aging mice and humans was linked to a decline in vascular function and subsequent neurodegeneration, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
12.01.2023The holidays are never lonely in the Arispe lab - at least not on these nights. We are always grateful to Drs. Tim Lane and Luisa Arispe, thank you for hosting us at your home for a night of fun and games.
11.17.2023Ana Mompeon presented her work on RASA1 at the FCVRRI Research in Progress seminar.
11.16.2023Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Sunshine on a successful thesis defense with her paper titled, "Elucidating the role of ZFP36 in endothelial angiogenic response." We wish her the very best in her tremendously bright future! We will all miss you very much.
10.17.2023Alan Poe, MD fellow and research scientist and Sneza Mirkov, Arispe lab manager share the stage as they present a poster together!
