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Avram J. Holmes
Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research
Rutgers University
119 Staged Research Building
661 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Dr. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers University, affiliated with the Brain Health Institute, the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research, and the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. Trained in clinical psychology and systems neuroscience, he studies the fundamental organization of large-scale human brain networks, with a particular focus on higher-level cognition and the intersection of emotion and cognition in psychiatric illness.
Kaley Joss
Department of Psychiatry
Rutgers University
119 Staged Research Building
661 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Kaley completed her bachelor’s in economics at the University of Washington, where she studied network economics under Dr. Alan Griffiths. At the Holmes Lab her research interests include building network-based models to analyze and characterize the time-varying patterns of brain connectivity that underlie individual differences in behavior.
Sidhant Chopra
Department of Psychiatry
Rutgers University
119 Staged Research Building
661 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Sid completed his PhD in Clincial Psychology and Neuroscience at Monash University (2022) in Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of Prof Alex Fornito. Sid’s PhD focused on mapping and modelling longitudinal brain changes in psychosis, as well as differentiating the effects of antipsychotics and psychosis. He is interested in improving understanding and treatment of psychosis and other serious mental illnesses, with his current work focused on mapping neural circuits which relate to altered behaviour in transdiagnostic populations and modelling the cellular and molecular mechanisms which lead to these neural alterations.
Carrisa Cocuzza earned her PhD in Neuroscience at Rutgers University (NJ, USA) in 2022 under the advisement of Dr. Michael W. Cole. Her dissertation examined the extent that brain-network-based mechanisms can explain local and distributed processes, including visual category selectivity and cognitive control. She is interested in building on this work to assess how network architectures and dynamics are altered across dimensional symptom profiles in patients diagnosed with psychotic and affective disorders. Carrisa plans to incorporate computational approaches from machine learning and network control theory, along with multivariate sources of biological and behavioral data, to build mechanistically-informed models of transdiagnostic neurocognitive deficits.
Loïc Labache
Department of Psychiatry
Rutgers University
119 Staged Research Building
661 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Loïc Labache earned his BSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Bordeaux (2014) and his MSc in Cognitive Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Bordeaux (2017). Prior to joining Yale University, he got his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (2020). His dissertation research focused on the elaboration of brain network atlases underpinning lateralized cognitive functions, with a particular emphasis on the study of inter-individual variability of language. He is interested in the link between resting-state and task-induced brain activity, as well as anatomo-functional bases of lateralized brain networks. His work will focus on the nested organization of cerebral networks, their dynamics and characteristics.
Edwina Orchard
Department of Psychology
413 Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Winnie completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Turner Institute of Brain and Mental Health at Monash University, in 2021, under the supervision of Dr Sharna Jamadar. Winnie’s research investigates the structural and functional brain changes associated with parenthood across the lifespan, with a special interest in how these changes relate to parental cognition and mental health in pregnancy and the postpartum period. Winnie is passionate about the parental brain, and women’s health more broadly – how female biology and the experience of womanhood shape the brain, cognition and behaviour across the life stages of adolescence, pregnancy, parenthood, perimenopause and the ageing process.
Ashlea Segal
Department of Psychology
413 Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Ashlea is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wu-Tsai Institute working with Professors Avram Holmes (Psychology) and Nenad Sestan (Neuroscience). Ashlea completed her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at the Turner Institute of Brain and Mental Health at Monash University (2023) in Melbourne, Australia under the supervision of Professor Alex Fornito. Ashlea’s PhD focused on mapping brain differences in psychiatric disorders across multiple spatial scales. She is interested in understanding how brain organization serves as bridge between one’s genes and one’s cognitive and behavioral processes, with a particular focus on individual neural variability in the context of psychiatric disorders.
Rowena Chin
Department of Psychology
413 Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Rowena is a graduate student in the Neuroscience area. She completed her BA at the University at Buffalo and MSc at University College London. She then worked at the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, for two years. To understand how form and function are interrelated, Rowena is interested in examining the structural bases underlying functional brain networks. She is also interested in incorporating genetics to elucidate biological mechanisms that give rise to structural and functional connectivity in healthy populations as well as network dysfunction in psychiatric populations.
Lydia Qu
Department of Psychology
413 Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Yueyue (Lydia) Qu is a Psychology PhD student in the Neuroscience area. She earned her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis (2021), where she worked with Ryan Bogdan and Deanna Barch. Lydia is interested in integrating various levels of analyses such as genetic, brain structure and fMRI with the ultimate goal of elucidating biomarkers of symptom dimensions across and within affective and psychotic disorders. She is also interested in investigating how dynamic interactions among functional networks underpin specific cascades of symptom development.
Xihan Zhang
Department of Psychology
413 Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Xihan is a PhD student in the Neuroscience area of Psychology. She received BS at Ocean University of China, and finished her thesis in system biology with Dr. Xinguang Zhu at Chinese Academy of Sciences. She then received MS in Computational Biology at Harvard, where she found her passion in human brain and finished thesis in Konklab. Then she worked with Dr. Marc Berman at University of Chicago for two years before joining the Holmes Lab. Xihan’s current interest focuses on the molecular and cellular bases of brain dynamics, how the features of brain signals are mapped to behavior space, and how the mapping function changes across development trajectory.
Justin Baker – McLean Hospital
Randy Buckner – Harvard University
Danilo Bzdok – McGill University
Elvisha Dhamala – McGill University
Thomas Yeo – National University of Singapore
Xi-Nian Zuo – Beijing Normal University
