Dr. Elvisha Dhamala is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, NY where she directs the Brain-Based Predictive Modeling Lab. Congrats, Elvisha! Check out more here!  

Holmes Lab research assistant, Jocelyn Ricard’s new paper, Confronting racially exclusionary practices in the acquisition and analyses of neuroimaging data”, is out now in Nature Neuroscience. Jocelyn Ricard, et al.’s work highlights actionable ways and important challenges to move the fields of neuroscience and psychology forward in designing better studies to address the history of exclusionary practices in human brain mapping. Jocelyn’s perspective piece also made the cover for the 2023 January Issue! Check out more here! Congrats, Jocelyn!

March 29, 2023 Connor Lawhead, Holmes Lab research assistant from 2021-2023, will be pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University. Congratulations, Connor! We cannot wait to follow your work through grad school. Connor will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Daniel Klein. Follow Connor and his research here.  

The Holmes Lab gives a farewell to former research assistants, Lia Chen and Julia Moses. Lia will begin a Ph.D. program in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University under Dr. Eve De Rosa, studying genetic and biological bases of neurodegenerative disease through fMRI. Julia will also begin a Ph.D. program in the Department of Developmental Psychology at City University of New York, the Graduate Center. She will focus on how young children about the world around them. Congratulations, Lia and Julia!

The Holmes Lab gives a farewell to former graduate student, Dr. Kevin Anderson. Kevin graduated from Yale and has become a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Randy Buckner’s lab at Harvard University. Congrats, Kevin! At the same time, we welcome a new undergraduate researcher to the lab, James Cross. Welcome to the lab, James!

Dr. Holmes has been promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry! Congrats Dr. Holmes!

Dr. Kevin Anderson has been named a co-winner of the 2020 James Grossman Dissertation Award for his dissertation, Integrative Molecular Bases of Brain Function and Organization. Congratulations, Kevin! Read more about it here!

The Holmes Lab is very excited to announce the arrival of a new post-doctoral researcher in February, Hao-Ming Dong from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. We would also like to write a belated welcome to a new research assistant, Julia Moses, who joined our lab in September 2019. Welcome to the team Hao-Ming and Julia!

Dr. Holmes has been named an Association for Psychological Science (APS) fellow! Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application. Yale Medicine reported on the achievement on their news page here.  Congratulations, Avram!

Dr. Avram Holmes was awarded Greer Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research! The Greer Prize is awarded annually for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research to recognize the research contribution of one or two deserving junior faculty members in the Natural and Social Sciences. The Yale Psychology Department reported on it here. Great job, Avram!

The Holmes Lab is delighted to welcome new lab manager/research assistant, Lia Chen! We also wish our warmest send-offs to post-doctoral researcher Monica Rosenberg, who is joining the faculty at the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Psychology, and lab manager/research assistant David Gruskin, who is off to pursue an MD-PhD at Columbia University. Wishing them all the best and cheers to another productive year ahead!

Avram and Lauren’s recent publication, “The Myth of Optimality in Clinical Neuroscience” (Holmes and Patrick, 2018), has been selected for Trends’ Personalized Medicine special collection! Check out the full collection at this link, or download the original article here!

Congratulations to Holmes Lab graduate student Meghan Collins, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) fellowship! This highly competitive award recognizes and supports graduate students conducting outstanding STEM research, and reflects Meghan’s previous accomplishments as well as her potential for future research achievements. Congrats, Meghan!

Dr. Avram Holmes has been chosen to receive the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s 2019 A.E. Bennett Award for Clinical/Translational Research! This award recognizes superb international research in biological psychiatry by young investigators and will be presented to Avram at the Society’s 74th annual meeting in Chicago. More information about Avram and the award can be found in this Yale School of Medicine article.

Congratulations to Holmes Lab research assistant David Gruskin, whose team was awarded first place and the Google API Integration prize at Hack Mental Health 2019 for developing Flip, a browser extension aimed at disrupting negative news bias related to suicide coverage. Check out a Yale Daily News article on the hackathon + Flip here, and watch David in action in this clip from WTNH News 8!