February 2022
Seminar – Alexej Abyzov, PhD – Topic: Genomic Variants and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Research in the laboratory of Alexej Abyzov, PhD, is focused on discovery and analysis of genomic variants and their relevance to diseases.
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Seminar – Matthew Maenner, PhD – Topic: Epidemiology of Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
I study the frequency, causes, and consequences of developmental disabilities (such as autism, cerebral palsy, and fragile X syndrome). I’m passionate about using data to better understand the situations of persons with disabilities.
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Seminar – Karen Adolph, PhD – “Learning to Move and Moving to Learn”
Adolph received her Ph.D. from Emory University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She directs the Databrary Project and PLAY Project. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science and Past-President of the International Congress on Infant Studies.
Find out more »Seminar – Gabriel Dichter, PhD – “Reward Processing in Autism”
We are dedicated to the use of neuroscience methods to better understand psychiatric disorders. Research methods include psychophysiology, functional MRI, PET/MR, eye-tracking, and behavioral approaches. Our strategy is to first validate methods in non-clinical contexts, then to apply paradigms in psychiatric conditions, and finally to test our measures as potential mechanistic endpoints in clinical trials.
Find out more »Seminar – Alex Pollen, PhD – Topic: Studying Genetic Control of Human Brain Specializations and Vulnerabilities
We study how genetic changes that accumulated over the last 6 million years of human evolution influence specialized features of brain development using single cell genomics, cerebral organoid models of ape brain development, and genome engineering.
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