March 16, 2024
Lab members had much fun at Brown Brain Fair 2024, making brain hats with kids and sharing our studies with their families.
December 15, 2023
Oh Lab Newsletter Winter 2023 – Issue 1
November 13, 2023
Welcome Nick Hu joining the lab as Research Assistant!
October 27, 2023
Hwamee, Mackenzie, Courtney, Sophie, Adea, Jenna, Sarah, Eileen, Gelila, and Jeremy
September 12, 2023
Welcome our new lab members in Fall 2023!
Eileen Wu, Sophomore in Public Health and Literary Arts at Brown
Sarah Bao, Sophomore in Mathematics, Computer Science & Computational Neuroscience at Brown
September 6, 2023
Welcome Mackenzie Topper to the lab as Research Assistant/Lab Manager!
August 3, 2023
Congratulations to Bryanna on her excellent poster presentation at the 2023 Brown Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium!
July 25, 2023
Bryanna Vilnaigre, a a BP-ENDURE fellow working in the lab this summer, is participating in a poster presentation at Carney Institute for Brain Science. Go Bryanna!
July 15-20, 2023
Lab’s ongoing work was presented at the annual meeting of Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
June 28, 2023
The lab’s research was featured on the cover page of the 2023 issue of IMPACT: Research at Brown magazine, an annual magazine devoted solely to the University’s research. A link for a full issue
June 15, 2023
Welcome our summer research interns, Bryanna, who is a BP-ENDURE fellow, Elliot, and Young!
March 30, 2023
Lab’s ongoing work was presented by Elizabeth Sharp at Brown Mind and Brain Research Day!
December 7, 2022
Celebrating the end of the semester with the nicest and smartest people whom we are fortunate to work with everyday!
(Jenna, Elizabeth S., Hwamee, Sophie, and Adea)
December 5, 2022
Lindsey Walsh, a senior at Stonehill College, presented her poster on her externship in the lab at the Psychology Internship Conference at Stonehill College. Great work, Lindsey!
December 2, 2022
Thank you to Dr. Brad Postle, a former PI and dissertation committee member of Dr. Oh, giving an enlightening talk on neural and algorithmic bases of controlling the contents of working memory at our lab meeting!
(Hwamee, Iris, Maxine, Brad Postle, Graham, Adea, Jenna, Elizabeth, Jeremy [Lindsey and Sheina via zoom])
October 27, 2022
Dr. Oh participated on a panel Q&A event of Brown Alzheimers’ Activists, Brown students’ organization on Alzheimer’s disease research and care.
October 26, 2022
Pumpkin Carving with Joo-Hyun Song Lab and Leslie Welch Lab in Brown CLPS!
[Graham, Sophia, Hwamee, and Elizabeth]
October 24, 2022
Welcome Sophia Wagner to the lab as Project Coordinator!
September 12, 2022
Welcome our new lab members in Fall 2022!
Adea Rich, a Master’s student in School of Public Health at Brown
Lindsey Walsh, Senior in Biology and Psychology, Stone College
Catherine Dion, PhD students in Neuropsychology at University of Florida
Katheryne Gonzalez, Sophomore in Cellular & Molecular Biology at Brown
July 30 – August 4, 2022
Lab’s presentations at the annual meeting of Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in San Diego, CA
Special Shoutouts to Vineetha Yadlapalli and Annika Rogers for having their honors thesis work presented at this international conference! Vineetha’s work was also supported by her 2021 Summer UTRA project! Great work!
June 19-23, 2022
Lab’s posters presented at OHBM 2022 in Glasgow, UK.
- Title: Posterior hippocampal redundancy reflects brain aging without beta-amyloid deposition (preprint)
2. Title: Denoising Approach Affects Diagnostic Differences in Brain Connectivity across Alzheimer’s Continuum (preprint)
June 8, 2022
A new paper from the lab titled “Extraversion is associated with lower brain beta-amyloid deposition in cognitively normal older adults” has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience!
June 7-8, 2022
The lab presents two posters at OHBM 2022 titled ” Posterior hippocampal redundancy reflects brain aging without beta-amyloid deposition” and “Denoising Approach Affects Diagnostic Differences in Brain Connectivity across Alzheimer’s Continuum“, led by Jenna Blujus, postdoc fellow in the lab! Both posters are presented both virtually (June 7 – June 8) and in person (June 19 – June 23). Great job, Jenna!
May 6, 2022
A new lab photo!
Graham, Maxine, Gelila, Melanie, Jeremy, Elizabeth K. Annika, Jenna, Sucheta, Hwamee (front) Iris, Mia, Elizabeth S. Vineetha; (absent) William
May 3, 2022
Our stellar undergraduate RAs Annika Rogers and Vineetha Yadlapalli presented their Honors thesis projects at 2022 Neuroscience Honors Poster Presentations at Alumnae Hall. Congratulations, Annika and Vineetha!!
April 23, 2022
At the annual meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2022), San Francisco, Sucheta presented her poster on new fMRI work titled “Differential neural correlates of top-down and bottom-up processing of visual information during categorization decisions“.
March 30, 2022
Jenna Blujus, postdoctoral fellow in the lab, won the 1st place in the Postdocs category for her research presentation titled “Posterior hippocampal redundancy is smaller among nondemented older adults with beta-amyloid deposition” at Mind Brain Research Day 2022. Congratulations, Jenna!!!
February 25, 2022
Dr. Oh presented a talk on “Translating Cognitive Neuroscience into a Pre-clinical Realm of Alzheimer’s Disease” at MGH Multicultural Alzheimer’s Prevention Program / Harvard Medical School.
Talk video link:
December 11, 2021
Dr. Oh presented a talk on “Cognitive Intervention Factors Moderating Brain Aging and Beta-Amyloid Deposition” at the Annual Conference of the Society of Cognitive Intervention in Seoul, Korea.
Nov 30, 2021
Dr. Oh on Carney Conversations on Nov 30, 2021 to talk about early diagnosis and risk factors in Alzheimer’s disease.
Nov 2, 2021
Dr. Oh will be on Carney Conversations on Nov 30, 2021 to talk about early diagnosis and risk factors in Alzheimer’s disease.
October 8, 2021
Fall 2021 lab photo on Quiet Green.
Hwamee, Annika, Jenna, Sucheta, Elizabeth S., Elizabeth K., Maxine, Vineetha, Graham, and Iris
October 1, 2021
Dr. Oh presented a talk on “Individual Difference and Lifestyle Factors Affecting Brain Aging, Beta-Amyloid Deposition, and Cognition in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease” at the International Conference of Korean Dementia Association (IC-KDA) 2021.
September 17, 2021
The first lab meeting in Fall 2021 IN PERSON!
August 27, 2021
The lab (Dr. Oh as the PI of the Brown University site) will be part of a multi-center longitudinal study, titled “Longitudinal multicenter head-to-head harmonization of tau PET tracers”, funded over $40 million by the National Institutes of Health. The study aims to examine different characteristics associated with tau PET tracers and to improve generalization of findings obtained in studies and clinical practice using distinct tau tracers. Congratulations, Dr. Oh and the lab!
July 26-30, 2021
Lab is participating in AAIC 2021 virtually this year!
Elizabeth Kaplan is presenting her poster on her work supported by Summer UTRA 2020:
Dr. Oh is presenting her poster on her work in collaboration with investigators at SUNY-Stony Brook:
July 22, 2021
The first in-person lab lunch on Main Green since March 2020!
Also, a farewell party for Shanti moving on to her premed program at Hofstra in NY.
Sucheta, Hwamee, Jenna, Shanti, Elizabeth, and Maxine
July 1, 2021
We are so excited about Sucheta Chakravarty, Ph.D. joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! She has completed her Ph.D. with Dr. Jeremy Caplan at University of Alberta, Canada, and will study neural correlates of visual memory representations in aging and preclinical Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning, fMRI, EEG, and PET. Welcome, Sucheta!
June 16, 2021
Dr. Oh’s interview on Brown’s new Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, along with Drs. Alvin Huang, Stephen Salloway, and Vincent Mor is featured here.
June 15, 2021
We are so thrilled to have Jenna Blujus, Ph.D. join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! She has completed her Ph.D. with Dr. Ira Driscoll at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and will work on a collaborative project on risk and resilience in aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology with Bill Heindel and Elena Festa in Brown’s CLPS department. Welcome, Jenna!
June 1, 2021
We are so excited to have Elizabeth Sharp, who is coming from Dr. De Rosa’s lab at Cornell, join the lab as a Lab Manager/Research Assistant. Welcome to the lab, Elizabeth!
May 10, 2021
We are excited for two Summer 2021 BrownConnect SPRINT Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRA), which Graham and Vineetha have been selected as a recipient of for their own summer research projects. Go Vineetha and Graham!
April 28, 2021
With support from the $30 million gifts, Brown is establishing a new Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research and the lab is part of the new Center. For more details, please check here.
April 12, 2021
Elizabeth Kaplan’s abstract on white matter microstructure, stress responses, and Alzheimer’s disease pathologies to AAIC 2021 has been accepted! Congratulations, Elizabeth!
February 12, 2021
First lab meeting in Spring 2021! Wishing you all a healthy and productive semester!
January 29, 2021
Congratulations, Elizabeth, for submitting an abstract to an annual meeting of Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2021 based on her 2020 Summer UTRA project! Great work!
January 20, 2021
Sophia, Vineetha, and Maxine join the lab in Spring 2021. Welcome all!
December 18, 2020
Great work everyone this semester! Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a well-deserved break!
December 14, 2020
Congratulations, Iris, on being selected as a recipient of the Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRA) for Spring 2021!
December 10, 2020
Dr. Oh presented her work at the GRAN (Growing Up in Aging Neuroscience) webinar series, along with Dr. Duke Han at USC. For her official and unofficial bio, check the speakers’ unofficial stories. Here recorded talk can be found here.
Sept 17, 2020
Lab meeting resumes for Fall 2020 via Zoom due to COVID-19.
Wishing you all a successful semester and looking forward to what we will learn together this semester!
Sept 10, 2020
Dr. Oh received an R01 award from the National Institute on Aging at NIH to examine neurocognitive mechanisms of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and to develop novel cognitive and neuroimaging markers of preclinical AD. Congratulations, Dr. Oh!
Sept 8, 2020
Graham joins the lab in Fall 2020. Welcome, Graham!
April 27, 2020
Congratulations, Elizabeth, on receiving the Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRA) for Summer 2020!
April 24, 2020
Lab meeting continues via Zoom during COVID-19
January 27, 2020
Dr. Oh will join the panel during the GRAN (Growing Up in Aging Neuroscience) mini symposium, an event right before the annual meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society in March 2020. For her official and unofficial bio, check the speakers’ and panelists’ unofficial stories.
Nov 22, 2019
Dr. Oh received a COBRE Center for Central Nervous System Function Pilot Project grant from NIGMS and the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University.
Nov 18, 2019
Shanti joins the lab as Research Assistant!
August 15, 2019
The Oh Laboratory for Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience has moved to Brown from Columbia University, starting July 2019.