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
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
Kimiko Slazas, Megan Wilson
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