Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering
Assistant Professor, Biology
Contact
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 134 MU
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 617.373.4495
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Research Focus
Studies how the brain regulates aging and resilience to oxidative stress in the nematode C. elegans
Honors & Awards
- NSF CAREER Award
Research Overview
Studies how the brain regulates aging and resilience to oxidative stress in the nematode C. elegans
Selected Research Projects
- Intercellular Regulation of Protein Oxidation during Aging
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Modulation of Organismic Resilience by the Microbiome
- – Co-Principal Investigator, Northeastern Tier 1
Selected Publications
- J.A. Schiffer, F.A. Servello, W.R. Heath, F.R.G Amrit, S.V. Stumbur, M. Eder, O.M. Martin, S.B. Johnsen, J.A. Stanley, H. Tam, S.J. Brennan, N.G. McGowan, A.L. Vogelaar, Y. Xu, W.T. Serkin, A. Ghazi, N. Stroustrup, J. Apfeld, Caenorhabditis elegans Processes Sensory Information to Choose Between Freeloading and Self-Defense Strategies, Elife, 2020
- J.A. Stanley, S.B. Johnsen, J. Apfeld, The SensorOverlord Predicts the Accuracy of Measurements with Ratiometric Biosensors, bioRxiv, 2020
- J. Apfeld, S. Alper, What Can We Learn About Human Disease from the Nematode C. elegans?, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2018
- J. Apfeld, W. Fontana, Age-Dependence and Aging-Dependence: Neuronal Loss and Lifespan in a C. elegans Model of Parkinson’s Disease, Biology (Basel), 2017
- N. Stroustrup, W.E. Anthony, Z.M. Nash, V. Gowda, A. Gomez, I.F. López-Moyado, J. Apfeld, W. Fontana, The temporal scaling of Caenorhabditis elegans ageing, Nature, 2016
Apr 11, 2020
FY21 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 19 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY21 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
Jan 27, 2020
Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. BASE CAMP AWARDS Developing HPLC Methods for Characterizing […]