People
Associate Professor
Role: Director
Research Interests: Gene-environment interplay, prenatal experiences, physiological responses to stress, pubertal development, parenting and parent-child relationships, development of behavior problems and substance use.
Current Graduate Students
Role : Amy is a fifth-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests: Amy is interested in the biological (i.e., hormones and genetics) and social (i.e., family and friendships) factors that influence adolescent alcohol initiation and subsequent use. They are particularly interested in researching how biological and social factors interact with gender and racial minority experiences in the development of adolescent alcohol use behaviors.
Current Projects in the BDL: Amy is examining the longitudinal effects of other-sex friendships on alcohol use in early adolescence (6th through 8th grade).
Advisor: Drs. Kristine Marceau and Valerie Knopik
Role : Nikolina is a fifth-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests: Nikolina is interested in the prenatal development and how it is affected by maternal behavior, environment, and genetics. She is also interested in placental phenotypic and genotypic characteristics and their possible relationship with infant health outcomes.
Current Projects in the BDL: Nikolina is exploring how placental morphology is linked to placental methylation.
Advisor: Drs. Kristine Marceau and Valerie Knopik
Role : Hazel is a fifth-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests: My research focuses on adolescent development, specifically on topics of bullying and victimization, behavioral inhibition, and substance use. I am also interested in investigating the interplay of gene and early adversity in influencing adolescent psychopathology.
Current Projects in the BDL: 1) Examining gene-environment interactions in the development of adolescent resistance to peer influence; 2) Using twin design to understand the association between childhood victimization and substance initiation; 3) Helping with data analysis for biological effects of colorism in adolescence: Improving the measurement of skin tone to assess associations with stress hormone levels.
Advisor: Drs. Kristine Marceau and Valerie Knopik
Role : Sohee is a fourth-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests in the BDL: Sohee is interested in using behavioral genetic methods (i.e. adoption design) in examining the influences of genetic and prenatal risk factors, as well as parental protective factors on children’s psychopathology development..
Current Projects: EGDS – depressive symptom development (MS Thesis), Multi-hormone Review, Parent-child Synchrony Review, Families Together; Parent-Adolescent Interactions Project
Advisor: Drs. Kristine Marceau and Valerie Knopik
Claire Rosenberger
Role : Claire is a third-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests: Claire is interested in substance use behaviors in neurodiverse and queer adolescent populations, and developing innovative family resilience interventions using community-based participatory research.
Advisor: Dr. Kristine Marceau
Current Projects: Families Together
Jennifer Hu
Role : Jennifer is a second-year graduate research assistant
Research Interests: Jennifer is interested parent-child synchrony (e.g., where parents and adolescents feel, act, and/or physiologically respond in similar ways together) across modalities (emotional, behavioral, and physiological) and time scales (momentary, daily, and eventually monthly) in order to better understand the role of this attunement in the development of healthy relationships and the mental health of parents and youth.
Advisor: Drs. Kristine Marceau and Valerie Knopik
Current Projects: Multi-hormone Review, Parent-child Synchrony Review; Parent-Adolescent Interactions Project
Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Yongseok Lee
Role : Postdoc
Research Interests: Causal Inference, Statistical Methods
Advisor: Dr. Kristine Marceau
Current Projects: Improving causal inference for national adolescent substance use datasets (R21 DA059778)
Graduate Student Alumni
Olivia Robertson
Olivia graduated with her PhD in December, 2023. She is currently a Post-doc at Indiana University
Emily Rolan
Emily graduated with her PhD in May, 2020. She is an Assistant Professor at University of Olivet
Gregor Horvath
Gregor graduated with his MS in May, 2020. He is currently a Statistician at SABER, University of Michigan
Aura Mishra
Aura graduated with her PhD in August, 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.
Nayantara Nair
Tara graduated with her PhD in October, 2021. She is currently an independent Research Consulant.
Undergraduate Students
*Poster or Talk Presenter; +Paper coauthor; SSSummer Stay Scholarship awardee; RUndergrad Research Enhancement Grant awardee; OOffice of Undergraduate Research Scholarship awardee; LLSAMP awardee
Current Students
Abby RegachoSS, L
Kimiko Slazas
Lily Che
Tulsi Desai
Hannah Murawski
Sam Melican
Alumni
Alvaro Rodriguez, 3 semesters: Spring 2023 – Spring 2024
Joshua Pritsker, 1 semester: Fall 2023
Gina Canino QuinonesL
Jillian Szweda, 2 semesters: Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Adira CriderL, 2 semesters: Spring 2022 – Fall 2022
Lauren Rutherford, 3 semesters: Spring 2022 – Fall 2022
Kaetlyn Dressendorfer, Biology, 2 semesters: Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
Julia Kramper*, Biology and Spanish, 3 semesters: Fall 2020 – Spring 2022
Ava Vande Corput, Biology and Chinese, 2 semesters: Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Elena Stanczykiewicz*, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Fall 2020-Fall 2021
Kali Negussie, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2 semesters: Spring 2021-Fall 2021
Katherine Price, Biology, 2 semesters: Spring 2021-Fall 2021
Brooke Lipscomb, Neurobiology and Physiology, 1 semester: Fall 2021
Madi Gritton, Psychological Sciences and Human Services, 2 semesters: Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Sarah Arnold*+, Development and Family Studies, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Spring 2020-Spring 2021
Sarah JacksonSS, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Summer Stay Scholar, 3 semesters: Summer 2020-Spring 2021
Elsa Johnson, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2 semesters: Spring 2020-Fall 2020
Savannah Hottle*+R, Biology, 9 semesters: Summer 2017-Spring 2020
Katarina Wujek, Biology, 5 semesters: Spring 2018-Spring 2020
Alishia Elliot*+R, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Spring 2018-Spring 2020
Radhika Sahai*SS, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Summer Stay Scholar, 3 semesters: Summer 2019-Spring 2020
Annie Thompson, HDFS data mine, 2 semesters: Fall 2019-Fall 2020
Maya Kumar*, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Fall 2018-Fall 2019
Kayla Stradford*ss, Biology- Genetics, Summer Stay Scholar, 4 semesters: Summer 2018-Spring 2019
Shuyu Gao*, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Summer 2018-Spring 2019
Brittany Gelhausen, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Summer 2018-Spring 2019
Laura Galles*, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 3 semesters: Spring 2018-Fall 2019, HHS outstanding Senior
Alyssa Gorzelnik, HDFS data mine, 1 semester: Fall 2019
Claire Demerly, HDFS data mine, 1 semester: Fall 2019
Rosie Mannin+, HDFS, 3 semesters: Spring 2017-Spring 2018
Olivia Clem*O, Psychological Sciences, OUR Scholar, 4 semesters: Fall 2017-Spring 2018.
Harlie Lane*O, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, OUR Scholar, 3 semesters: Summer 2017-Spring 2018
Shreya Swaminathan, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2 semesters: Spring 2018-Fall 2018
Emily Field, Nursing, 2 semesters: Spring 2017-Fall 2017
Heather LangeSS, Psychological Sciences, 2 semesters: Summer 2017-Fall 2017