2025
Presenting the newly minted Dr. Rodriguez Morales! Congrats Gabi!!!
Presenting the newly minted Dr. Brown! Congrats Ellie!!!
Mai-Anh presenting her work at the 2025 Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaborative Meeting in Phoenix, AZ!
Anil showing the giant the chocolate Lily brought for lab!
when you work on the 9th floor, you spend a lot of time in the elevator
2024
Alice presenting her work for neurobiology student seminar!
Mark and Milan twinning!
surgeon Lily!
Ellie and Alice at Cloud Gate (“The Bean”) in Chicago, where SFN 2024 was held!
Alice presenting her poster at SFN!
Ellie presenting her poster at SFN!
Ellie and Alice at Cloud Gate (“The Bean”) in Chicago, where SFN 2024 was held!
Welcome, Milan! Farewell and congrats on the new job, Christian - we’ll miss you! Also celebrating multiple paper submissions and a grant renewal!
Zack trying to throw himself in the trash bin
Darcy practicing filling glass pipettes
Christian modeling a “nicely fitted” labcoat
Lily, Darcy, & Alice
Zack & Safa twinning
Ellie lending Mai-Anh a hand on a coffee run
Alice happily fueling her brain
Successful scavengers Ari, Alice, Zack, & Mai-Anh
Paper Submission! Fingers crossed!
Mark presenting some of the lab’s work as part of the 2024 BU Center for Systems Neuroscience Symposium "Neurotransmission is Lit”!
Mai-Anh presenting her work as part of the 2024 BU Center for Systems Neuroscience Symposium "Neurotransmission is Lit”!
Proud Safa with 2 of her (former) undergraduate mentees!
Congrats on the new job and best wishes, Ben! We’ll miss you!
Safa explaining her project to Alice
Ben and Lily thinking super hard
Congratulations and best wishes as you begin your grad school journey at Penn State, Joey! We’ll miss you!
Ari building implants!
Darcy becoming an independent surgeon!
Ellie & Ben twinning
Safa got excited when she saw Christian wearing a Morocco jersey!
solar eclipse viewing fun!
Different floors in our building have different wall textures (photo: Safa)
Ellie and Darcy presenting their work at COSYNE 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal!
dynamic duo Safa and Zack (in coordinating colors!)
Mai-Anh gave a talk at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Breckenridge, CO, and got to hit the slopes too!
Ellie in action
a lot of thinking during Alice’s lab meeting
Betul doesn’t like to be hungry. Or thirsty.
twinning!
Howe Lab kicking off 2024 and celebrating a paper acceptance with some pizza and candlepin bowling!
lab photo
2023
Some adventures of Lily, Mai-Anh, Alice, Safa, Mark & Joey at SFN 2023 in Washington DC!
SFN drawings by Joey!
Safa presenting her poster at SFN!
Mai-Anh presenting her poster at SFN!
Alice presenting her work in a nanosympsium at SFN! And proud PI Mark taking a picture!
Mark presenting a poster at SFN, and lab alumna Brenna looking on as he presented some of her data!
Mai-Anh trying to feel grounded
Ellie giving a talk about her work at the Lake Conference in Seattle, WA!
Betul’s lab meeting!
Alice, after her lab meeting
Alice for infinity!
Ben gets cold in the confocal room
Congrats on the new job and best wishes, Brenna! We’ll miss you!
some problems require a hammer
Anil is ready for his lab meeting!
Safa representing the Howe Lab and Team Cragg at the ASAP (Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s) Collaborative Meeting in San Diego, CA. Great data blitz and poster!
Mark and Safa with other Team Cragg colleagues at the ASAP (Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s) Collaborative Meeting in San Diego, CA. They won 2nd place at trivia night!
Darcy melting from thinking too hard
Aaquib the surgeon
Betul the surgeon
Ellie and Mai-Anh brainstorming and (Zoom) meeting with Mark
Safa presenting her work at the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting and International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) conference in Stockholm!
Gabi presenting her work at the International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) conference in Stockholm!
Mai-Anh presenting her work at the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting and International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) conference in Stockholm!
Anil presenting his work at the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting in Stockholm!
the adventures of Mark, Mai-Anh, Safa, Anil, Gabi, and Betul in Stockholm, Sweden, for the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting and International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) conference, with guest appearance by lab alumna Michelle!
Way to go Brenna! Representing the lab well in front of a packed room of neuroscience heavyweights at the Sensation and Action Lake Conference in Thun, Switzerland! And Mark having a proud PI moment in the audience.
Alice presenting her poster at the Sensation and Action Lake Conference in Thun, Switzerland! A lot of folks were interested in her work - great job, Alice!
Howe Lab hanging out and celebrating our first paper submission!
Kylie representing the Howe Lab at the Yale Intercollegiate Symposium. Yay, Kylie!
Ellie presenting her work for the Graduate Program for Neuroscience (GPN) student research seminar. Great job, Ellie!
Zack thinking hard
Oh noooo, we found a typo! Submitting our first paper - big moment!
Gabi & Ellie twinning!!!
2022
Alice presenting her work as as part of the Neurobiology graduate student seminar series. Great job, Alice!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Gabi, Ellie, and Joey TRIPLETING!
Olivia & Safa twinning!!!
Anil x3!
Mai-Anh presenting her work as part of the BU Brain, Behavior, & Cognition (BBC) Seminar Series - great job Mai-Anh!
Ellie & Darcy twinning!
Fall half marathon adventures!
Kylie presenting a poster about her summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project - great job, Kylie!
Chinyere presenting a poster about her summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project - great job, Chinyere!
Brenna presenting at lab meeting
lab meeting pizza goes fast
Gabi and Mark twinning
Joey & Zack
Safa giving a talk about her work at the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting at Oxford!
Ellie giving a talk about her work at the Annual Symposium of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaboration for Team Cragg meeting at Oxford!
the adventures of Mark, Safa, Anil, and Ellie in Oxford
Gabi reaching new heights while talking science with Safa
impromptu Howe Lab olympics
Mai-Anh stays hydrated
Zack in action, trying to fix the computer!
Ben testing out the new wheel he put together!
Alice scienced so hard she fell out of her chair (she’s laughing in this photo)
infinite Anil & Mai-Anh
Ellie giving a talk for the Neurophotonics Neurotech Tutorial Series/NRT Technology Seminar Series
surgery teamwork
Lily & Alice ride scooters!
Alice waiting for her experiment to finish
brainstorming
Gabi’s poster at the 2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain meeting in Boston
Alice’s poster at the 2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain meeting in Boston
People were excited to hear about Alice’s work at the 2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain meeting in Boston!
Mark’s talk created lots of buzz at the Dopamine 2022 conference in Montreal
Ellie’s poster at Dopamine 2022 in Montreal
Mai-Anh’s poster at Dopamine 2022 in Montreal
lab photo
looking completely "natural", doing "real" science
Big congrats to Ben for a fantastic honors thesis defense!
infinite Ellie
surgeon-in-training Lydia!
Alice doesn’t like the feeling of gloves on tinfoil!
Mark’s still got it!
neuromodulators team figuring out how to submit abstracts
even a snowstorm won’t get in the way of Safa’s lab meeting
pro implant fabricator
twinning two weeks in a row! on fridays they wear pink
new year, new lessons learned
2021
senior lab members’ end-of-year lab outing
what is it like to be a mouse?
more twinning!
brainstorming
brainstorming
making implants
making electronic components
impromptu Sunday morning hike to peep some foliage
Ben’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) poster presentation - great job, Ben!
putting up a new rig
surgeon-in-training
beautiful views from our floor
trying out new ways to read papers
watching neurons
collaboration
fabricating implants
lessons learned
mad scientists hard at work
twinning!
Cranberry Trifest Splash & Dash
twinning!
created by Safa
good weather and beautiful flowers outside our building (photo: Alice)
good weather and beautiful flowers outside our building (photo: Alice)
Farewell Patlapa & Michelle - we’ll miss you! (photographer: Safa)
Zoom lab meeting
2020
social distancing
exciting!
Mai-Anh, 2 hours prior: I’m on my way out but I wanna try something real quick…
pasta night!
2019
Welcome to the Howe Lab, Safa!
Welcome to the Howe Lab, Gabi!
Halloween!
International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
