• Castro, E.V., Chizuk HM, Bergsland N, et al. Assessment of the DTI-ALPS Index in Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion. J Magn Reson Imaging. Published online August 20, 2025. doi:10.1002/jmri.70073 
• Chizuk, H., Castro, E.V., Robinson, S., Sayeed, J., Rawlings, A., Leddy, J., Haider, M. Sex Differences in Response to Low Versus High Volume Targeted Heart Rate Aerobic Exercise for Sport-Related Concussion, a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 2025.
• Ledwidge, P.S., Hartland, L., Huston, C., Jones, C., Neff, E., Castro, E.V., & Abt, John. Post-concussion changes in the N200 and P300 ERPs are associated with cognitive symptoms and performance. Brain Injury. 2024:1-10.
• Castro, E.V., Shepherd J.W., Guggenheim, R.S., Sengvoravong, M., Hall, B.C., Chappell, M.K., Hearn, J.A., Caraccio, O.N., Bissman, C., Lantow, S., Buehner, D., Costlow, H.R., Prather, D.M., Zonza, A.M., Witt, M., & Zahratka, J.A. (2022). ChanFAD: A Functional Annotation Database for Ion Channels. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS 

• National Enhancement of UnderRepresented Academic Leaders (NEURAL) Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, June 2025 -Talk, “Concussion Causes Structural Changes in the Brain” 
• Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems, Binghamton, New York, April 2025 -Talk, “Adolescent Structural Brain Changes after Sport-Related Concussion” 
• International Brain Injury Association World Congress on Brain Injury, Montreal, Canada, March 2025 -Pre-congress session: “Concussion & mTBI: The Science Behind mTBI” -Talk: “MRI Part 1, the Basics” 
• STEM For Everyone, UB Women in STEM, April 2024 -Contestant, “Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis After Sports-Related Concussion in Adolescents” 
• Pathway to Ph.D. Micro-Credential, University at Buffalo, New York, June 2023 -Interviewer, “Module 2: Understanding your Department’s Jargon” 
• Saint Lawrence School, Buffalo, New York, 2023-2025 -Talk, “My journey as a Ph.D. student and traumatic brain injury research” 
• University Communicators Conference, Buffalo, New York, March 2023 -Panelist, “Ask the Student Panel: Graduate School Edition”
• Castro, E. “The Association Between a History of mTBI and the Default Mode Network in College-Aged Contact Sport Athletes” Senior Thesis Defense, Baldwin Wallace University, April 2022 
  
• Lebo, A., Castro, E., Broucek, S. & Pipoly, E. “Reinventing the Co-Curriculum: Honors Colloquia Series” Mid-East Honors Association Conference, Cleveland, Ohio April 2022 
  

RESEARCH POSTERS 

• Celebration of Student Academic Excellence, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, April 2025 -Castro, E., Schweser, F., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Microstructural Brain Changes in Adolescents After Experiencing a Sport-Related Concussion” 
• International Brain Injury Association World Congress on Brain Injury, Montreal, Canada, March 2025 -Castro, E., Schweser, F., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Diffusion Imaging Analysis in Adolescents with Sport-Related Concussion” -Castro, E., Leddy, JJ., Chizuk, HM., Aronoff, N., Haider, MN. “Sex Differences in Response to Early Aerobic Exercise Prescriptions in Athletes with Sport-Related Concussion: A Reanalysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials and Systematic Review” 
• Society for Neuroscience Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 2024 -Castro, E., Schweser, F., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis After Sports-Related Concussion in Adolescents” 
• Neural Enhancement of Under-Represented Academic Leaders (NEURAL) Conference, Birmingham, Alabama , June 2024 -Castro, E., Willer, B., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Analyzing Traumatic Brain Injury Through Tractography Analysis” 
• American College of Sports Medicine Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2024 -Ledwidge, P.S., Hartland, L.C., Huston, C., Jones, C., Neff, E., Castro, E., Abt, J.P. “Post-concussion Changes in ERPs Of Cognitive Inhibition and Attention are Associated with Clinical Outcomes” 
• Art of Research Competition, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, April 2024 -“Brain’s Blueprint: Mapping the Brain’s Connectivity Using Tractography” 
• Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Annual Conference, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, April 2024 -Castro, E., Willer, B., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Analyzing Traumatic Brain Injury Through Tractography Analysis” 
• Neuroscience Research Day, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, November 2023 -Castro, E., Willer, B., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Analyzing Traumatic Brain Injury Through Tractography Analysis” 
• Graduate Student Research Day, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, October 2023 -Castro, E., Willer, B., Muldoon, S., Leddy, J., Haider, M. “Analyzing Traumatic Brain Injury Through Tractography Analysis”
• Castro, E., Shepherd J.W., Guggenheim, R.S., Sengvoravong, M., Hall, B.C., Chappell, M.K., Hearn, J.A., Caraccio, O.N., Bissman, C., Lantow, S., Buehner, D., Costlow, H.R., Prather, D.M., Zonza, A.M., Witt, M., & Zahratka, J.A. “ChanFAD: An experience in database maintenance and functional protein annotations” Ovation Day of Excellence, Baldwin Wallace University, April 2022
• Castro, E. “The Association Between a History of mTBI and the Default Mode Network in College-Aged Contact Sport Athletes” Ovation Day of Excellence, Baldwin Wallace University, April 2022
• Ledwidge, P., Jones, C., Huston, C., Trenkamp, M., Bator, B., Laeng, J., Neff, E., Castro, E. “Electrophysiology Reveals Cognitive-Linguistic Impairments After Concussion: Evidence from the N400” International Pediatric Brain Injury Society & North American Brain Injury Society Joint Conference on Brain Injury, New York City, New York, September 2022