NEWS

The BGD lab attended the annual Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI) symposium, with Laura Mercedes presenting!

Kevin Sun presented his work at the annual Flux Conference in Baltimore!

Thrilled to have Shivaram Karandikar join the lab as a data analyst! Shivaram's work will focus on processing and analyzing neuroimaging data for a variety of projects. Welcome to the team!

We are thrilled to welcome Laura Mercedes as our new Clinical Research Coordinator! Laura will be focusing on recruitment and general facilitation of the Brain-Behavior-Genetics Prospective Study. Happy to have you with us!

Congrats to Smrithi Prem for receiving the 2024 Educating Physician Scientists in Psychiatry (EPSP) Pilot Grant!

Our lab is elated to welcome Ben Jung! Ben is a postdoctoral researcher investigating rare copy number variants and their relationship to brain structure and psychopathology. Glad to have you with us!

Margaret and Lena's abstracts were selected for oral presentations at the OHBM conference!

Congratulations to Kevin Sun for receiving the F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship Award!

The lab welcomes our new undergraduate cohort for the summer - Harry Hearn (Loyola University Maryland '25), Leila Abdel-Qader (University of Pennsylvania '26) and Sepp Kohler (University of Pennsylvania '27).

Congratulations to Jakob Seidlitz for being nominated as a CHOP Emerging Innovator in Collaborative Research!