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The Holmes Lab gives a farewell to former research assistants, Lia Chen and Julia Moses

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!

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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!

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Congratulations to Meghan Collins, Awarded NSF-GRFP

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!

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Congrats Avram on winning the 2019 A.E. Bennett Award for Clinical and Translational Research!

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.

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Assistant David Gruskin’s Team Gets First Place

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!

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Complexity Research in Nature Communications publication

A recent Holmes Lab publication, “The human cortex possesses a reconfigurable dynamic network architecture that is disrupted in psychosis” (Reinen et al., 2018), has been selected for the Complexity Research in Nature Communications collection! Check out the full collection by following this link, or download the original article here!

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