BABL News

 

Fall 2025

• The BABL welcomes new MRes student Amina Harrath, new postgraduate research associate Liam, and undergraduate students Kaitlyn and Fev!

• Welcome back to returning BABL undergraduate Lea!

• BABL PGA Kezhu presented a poster at the Yale Postgraduate Symposium, and won the best poster award. Well done!

• Dr. Rutherford publishes papers entitled "A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment" and "Operationalizing psychological trauma in pregnancy: A systematic review."

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Spring 2025

• Masters student Kehzu Niu completes her MRes degree and stays in the lab as a postgraduate research associate. We're so excited to continue working with you!

• BABL PGAs Michèle Day and Zoe Howell are accepted into PhD programs! Michèle has joined the University of Vermont in the Experimental Neuroscience PhD program and Zoe has joined the Florida State University Clinical Psychology PhD program. Congratulations Michèle and Zoe!!

• PhD student Kathy Ayala publishes a first author paper entitled "Associations between fetal movement and maternal-fetal attachment in late pregnancy."

• PhD student Kathryn Wall publishes first author papers "Global variation in the assessment of psychological trauma in pregnancy" and "Racial and ethnic representation in studies of psychological trauma during pregnancy."

• PhD student Dan McGlade publishes "Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children"

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Fall 2024

• The BABL welcomes new MRes student Kezhu Niu and new postgraduate research associate Jocelyn!

• Welcome back to BABL undergraduates Maya, Lea and Destiny!

• BABL PGAs Michèle and Zoe present posters at the Yale Postgraduate Symposium, well done!

• BABL PhD students Kathy Ayala and Kathryn Wall are awarded travel awards from the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

 

Spring 2024

• BABL undergraduate students Julia Sulkowski (Yale '24) and Michelle Torres Almache (Yale '24) completed their bachelors degrees. Congratulations Julia and Michelle!

• Masters students Zoe Howell and Maisha Hossain complete their M.Res degrees and stay in the lab as postgraduate research associates. We're so excited to continue working with you!

• Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Winnie Orchard completed her postdoctoral position in the Yale Child Study Center this spring. Congratulations, we will miss you!

• Congratulations to PGA Claudia Gaebler for acceptance to UConn's Clinical Psychology PhD program! We're so proud of you!

• Congratulations to PGA and former M.Res student Josephine Levy for acceptance to McGill's Clinical Psychology PhD program! We're so happy for you!

• PGA Victoria Hart-Derrick accepts a new research position. Congratulations Victoria!

• Dr. Amanda Lowell has accepted a new position. Congratulations Amanda, we will miss you!

• BABL postdoctoral associate Dr. Clíona Kelly was the recipient of the 2024 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity for her project investigating mother-infant interactions combining immersive virtual reality and EEG. Congratulations Clíona!

• PhD Student Kathy Ayala published first author papers "Made to move: A review of measurement strategies to characterize heterogeneity in normal fetal movement" and "Letter to the Editor: Does fetal movement shape the maternal brain?"

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Fall 2023

• The BABL is excited to welcome our new members, postdoctoral associate Dr. Clíona Kelly, PhD student Daniel McGlade, Masters students Maisha Hossain and Zoe Howell, undergraduate student Julia Sulkowski, and postgraduate research associate Michèle Day! We're so happy to have you all!

• The BABL received a new NICHD R21 grant titled Social Connectedness in the Transition to Parenthood: Implications for Parent and Child Health and Well-Being with Dr. Katherine Nelson-Coffey.

• PhD student Kathryn Wall was awarded a Yale Women's Faculty Forum Seed Award to support her work on understanding barriers faced by women participating in maternal neuroscience research and publishes first author paper "Maternal psychological risk and the neural correlates of infant face processing: a latent profile."

 

Summer 2023

• The BABL received a new NICHD R01 grant titled Neural mechanisms of psychological risk on mother and infant adjustment in African American and European American families with Dr. Ashley Groh.

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Spring 2023

• Postdoctoral fellows Dr. Francesca Penner and Dr. Tal Yatziv completed their postdoctoral positions in the Yale Child Study Center this spring/summer. Dr. Penner will be joining Baylor University as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department and Dr. Yatziv will be joining Ben-Gurion University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Congratulations both, we are so proud of you!

• Masters students Rachel Shin and Josephine Levy completed their MRes in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology. Both Rachel and Josephine will be staying with the BABL as postgraduate research associates. Congratulations both, we're so excited to continue working with you!

• BABL undergraduate students Brooke Casey (Yale '23) and Michèle Day (University of New Haven '23) completed their bachelors degrees. Congratulations Brooke and Michèle!

• BABL PhD Student Kathy Ayala completed her qualifying exam this semester. Congratulations on this major accomplishment Kathy!

• PhD Student Kathryn Wall was awarded an NIH F31 to complete her dissertation research on maternal and environmental substance exposure effects on child development. 

• Postgraduate Research Associate Victoria Hart-Derrick was given the Elizabeth A. Klonoff Award the Diversifying Clinical Psychology Conference. Well done Victoria!

• BABL Postdoc Dr. Li Yan McCurdy was awarded the Yale Mentoring Award for postdoctoral scholars. Congratulations Dr. McCurdy, very well deserved!

• Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Winnie Orchard was awarded a Yale Women's Faculty Forum Seed Award to support her work on understanding experiences of cognitive change in early motherhood. 

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