Graduate student Ruofan Ma received a pilot grant from the NIA-sponsored Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging to examine how neurophysiological aging and social adversity impact people’s social decision-making. This pilot study will be appended to our on-going NSF-supported EPIC study, which examines how neurophysiological aging impacts emotional experiences and behaviors. Thanks to Margaret Sheridan and Kelly Giovanello for co-sponsoring!
Dr. Kristen Lindquist to give Plenary address at the 2024 meeting of the Social Affective Neuroscience Society
Lab PI, Kristen Lindquist, will give the Plenary address at the annual Social Affective Neuroscience Society meeting in Toronto in April, 2024. Read more here.
Dr. Kristen Lindquist gives Keynote at the Tilburg University Emotions Conference
Lab PI, Dr. Kristen Lindquist, gave a keynote presentation on the lab’s research at the Tilburg University conference on emotions, which occurs every four years in Tilburg, Netherlands. For more information, see here.
Dr. Kristen Lindquist speaks on The Dissenter podcast
Dr. Kristen Lindquist spoke to Ricardo Lopes on The Dissenter podcast about her multidisciplinary work on emotions. Watch the interview here.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Jennifer Fan, presents her work!
Rising Junior, Jennifer Fan, finalizes her Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship work on the impact of sleep quality on emotion regulation across the adult life span.
Summer NIDA Interns present their independent work
Undergraduate students London Evans and Madison Edwards were National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) summer interns in the CASL and DSN Lab at UNC. They both contributed to data collection on our on-going NIDA R01 and were able to perform their own independent research projects. Here they are presenting their findings!
The CASL says goodbye to Dr. Leshin
Dr. Joseph Leshin graduated from UNC in August and has officially moved on from the CASL. He will join Dr. Alex Rodman’s lab at Northeastern as a postdoctoral associate on September 1. We look forward to our continued collaborations and wish you best of luck with your new work!
Congrats to Haley and Katie, high school summer interns in the CASL
High school students, Katie and Hayley, joined the CASL for 6 weeks this summer through WinSPIRE, a program at UNC that supports high school students from underrepresented genders in STEM. Here they are pictured presenting their neural network findings at the closing ceremony. Thanks to graduate student Mallory Feldman for supervising them!
Congrats to Dr. Joseph Leshin!
Joseph Leshin successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Context effects on the neural basis of emotion!” Dr. Leshin will be joining the lab of Dr. Alexandra Rodman at Northeastern University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the fall, where he will study the influence of neural and social processes in adolescent emotion development. We will be so sad to see Joseph leave, but are really excited to see where this new work takes him!
Congrats to Dr. Gaby Alvarez!
Gabriella Alvarez successfully defended her dissertation entitled “From inequality to inflammation: Exploring internal and external contributions to affective processing!” Dr. Alvarez will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. We are so sad to see her go but are so excited to see the work she and her new lab will do!
Dr. Alvarez pictured with Dr. Keely Muscatell