Congratulations to Dr. Lucina Uddin, the 2023 Flux Linda Spear Mid-Career Award winner! This award recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists at the mid-level of their careers. (
@LucinaUddin
)
Congratulations to 2021 Flux Congress award winners Drs. Kate Mills and Cameron Ellis! Dr. Mills received the Young Investigator Award & Dr. Ellis received the Trainee Dissertation Award. Don't miss these amazing speakers at
#Flux2021
! See below for their bios.
Congratulations
@EvaTelzer
, 2019 Young Investigator Award Winner!
Eva Telzer is an Associate Professor
@UNCPsych
. Her research examines how social and cultural processes shape adolescent brain development. For more on her lab's work, see &
@DSNLab
We are excited to announce that the first ever Flux Dissertation Award has been awarded to Dr. Katie Insel (
@katieinsel
)!!! Dr. Insel's research strives to understand developmental changes in the brain networks underlying motivation and cognition. Join us in congratulating her!
This year’s Huttenlocher Award honours the remarkable contributions to the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience made by
@utafrith
. She’ll be talking about "What autism has taught us about mentalising" tomorrow at 2pm.
#FluxBerlin2018
We are excited to announce this year's Huttenlocher awardee.... BEA LUNA!! This award is in honor of Dr. Huttenlocher for his work in the cognitive neuroscience field and is given to an outstanding researcher each year. Congrats, Bea!
📣 🏆Check out our one-on-one interview with Dr. Nim Tottenham - the 2022 Flux winner of the Linda Spear Mid-Career Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists at the mid-level of their careers.
Congratulations to Dr. Cat Camacho, the 2023 Flux winner of the Dissertation Award! This recognizes an exceptional, rigorous, and meticulous dissertation by one of the Flux society's trainee members.
@LucinaUddin
inspiring casual mentorship and a developmental perspective to the study of autism brain development. Congrats to the Flux 2023 Linda Spear Mid-Career Award!
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Natalie Saragosa-Harris (
@neuralnat
) is a second-year PhD student working at UCLA in Dr. Jennifer Silvers’ SAND Lab (
@JASilvers
,
@sandlabucla
). Natalie studies how early adversity shapes neural processing of reward and ambiguity in adolescence.
🚨 Announcing the official Flux trainee podcast: Sensitive Periods 🚨
Hosted by Trainee Committee members
@AndrewCLynn
&
@MattMattoni
, Sensitive Periods will discuss current topics in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience through the lens of our ever changing career stages. 🧵
Hello! We have an exciting announcement! Flux is proud to introduce the inaugural Trainee Committee. The committee is composed of research assistants, graduate students and post-docs who serve as liaisons to the trainees of the society.
Thank you for joining us in this year’s congress! It was so rejuvenating to see so much amazing science and scientists be a part of our community. Safe travels and we can’t wait to see you again soon!
✨Trainee Spotlight✨Meet Lucinda Sisk (
@lucinda_sisk
), a PhD student working with Dr. Dylan Gee at Yale. Lucinda’s work focuses on how the childhood environment, particularly experiences of stress and trauma, can shape the development of structural and functional brain networks.
Congratulations to 2021 Flux Congress award winners Drs. Kate Mills and Cameron Ellis! Dr. Mills received the Young Investigator Award & Dr. Ellis received the Trainee Dissertation Award. Don't miss these amazing speakers at
#Flux2021
! See below for their bios.
📣 🏆Check out our one-on-one interview with Dr.
@JASilvers
- the 2022 Flux winner of the Young Investigator Award, supported by
@KennedyKrieger
Institute, which recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers.
Meet the 2020/2021 Flux Trainee Representatives! Our committee includes graduate students & postdocs who act as liasons to the trainees of the society and plan trainee events for Flux Congress. Join our Slack () to talk with us and other trainees!
🧵1/11
Pride is - and has always been - a celebration of those who are different, a memorial for all who we have lost on our way forward, and a defiant challenge to a world that still so often seeks to deny our common humanity and place within society.
@dylanggee
won the award for her excellent and transformative early career efforts in studying early life adversity on cognitive and affective brain development. Well deserved, Dylan!
#flux2020
#FluxVirtual
Congratulations to Dylan Gee, the 2020 Young Investigator Award Winner. Thank you to Kennedy Krieger Institute for Sponsoring this Award. Dr. Gee's talk is about to begin!
#Flux2020
#FluxVirtual
Join Flux 2023 to hear Ethan McCormick (
@E_M_McCormick
), Laurel Gabard-Durham (
@laurel_joy_gd
), Yee Lee Shing (
@YeeLeeShing1
) & Ulman Linderberger discuss their research on novel insights from lifespan development, moderated by Margaret Sheridan (
@masherid
).
Congratulations to Dylan Gee, the 2020 Young Investigator Award Winner. Thank you to Kennedy Krieger Institute for Sponsoring this Award. Dr. Gee's talk is about to begin!
#Flux2020
#FluxVirtual
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Wierenga, the 2023 Flux winner of the Young Investigator Award! The
@KennedyKrieger
Institute supports this award and recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers.
Congratulations to Dr. Eva Telzer for winning the 2019 Young Investigator Award! You make the future of developmental neuroscience bright!
#FluxNYC2019
Congratulations to the 2019 Huttenlocher Award winner, BJ Casey! As Nim Tottenham put it during the introduction, half of us wouldn't be here without BJ!
#FluxNYC2019
Check out our one-on-one interview with
@DrAdeleDiamond
- the 2022 Flux winner of the Huttenlocher Award!
This award celebrates an outstanding researcher in developmental cognitive neuroscience who inspires future generations of researchers.
#Flux2022
The Young Investigator Award this year recognizes Leah Somerville's outstanding contributions to developmental cognitive neuroscience. Don't miss out on her talk at 2:30pm today.
@leahsom
#FluxBerlin2018
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Meet Lindsey Mooney (
@Linz_Mooney
). Lindsey is a fourth-year PhD candidate working in Dr. Simona Ghetti’s (
@sghetti1
) Memory & Development Lab at
@ucdavis
. Her work focuses on neural mechanisms underlying episodic memory development. (1/3)
That's a wrap for
#FluxNYC2019
! Thanks for a great conference in a great city. See you all at Santa Rosa in 2020 to help usher in a new decade of developmental neuroscience!
We are delighted to announce that path-breaking scientists Danielle Bassett and Wouter van den Bos will present their research at the Flux Congress. Looking forward to their presentation. September 17 – 21.
The results are in for our first
#Flux2022
Member's Choice poster! Our winner is ... 🥁
1-A-41 Parent-Child Relationship is Associated with Unique Neural Synchrony While Listening to Stories: An fMRI Study
Congrats Nir Habouba! Contact
@AndrewCLynn
to collect your T-shirt.
📣 Check out our one-on-one interview with Dr. (
@Divyanganar
) - the 2022 Flux winner of the Dissertation Award! 🏆
The Dissertation Award recognizes an exceptional, rigorous, and meticulous dissertation by one of the Flux society's trainee members.
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Ashley (
@hashtagAshleyN
) completed her PhD working with Brad Schlaggar (
@BradSchlaggar
), Deanna Greene (
@DeannaJGreene
), & Steve Petersen at Washington University in St. Louis. Ashley’s work focuses on characterizing properties of typical and atypical (1/4)
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Kathy (
@kathydo_
) is a sixth-year PhD student working in
@EvaTelzer
's
@DSNLab
at
@UNCPsych
. Her research examines how brain development and social influences shape adolescent decision making in both adaptive and maladaptive ways. Kathy received a (1/3)
Up now! Symposium
#2
: Sample size, representation, or both? Current debates in developmental population neuroscience ft
@gard_arianna
Tomas Paus, Henning Tiemeier, & Hugh Garavan
Update 📣: Abstract submission deadline is now extended to May 15th . 📊📜 We hope all of our trainees remain in good health during these troubling times. 🩺🧼
The Flux First-Gen Affinity Group will hold its next meeting on Jun 28 2pm EST on Zoom. The First-Gen Affinity Group aims to provide for Flux members who identify as first-generation academics to connect and exchange ideas. To join, contact
@_JuliaMoser
or
@marjoleinbar
🎤🎧 Episode 5 of Sensitive Periods is OUT NOW! 🎧 🎤
Join our conversation about how to craft a SELLAR ACADEMIC TALK with Drs. Margaret Sheridan (
@masherid
),
@LucinaUddin
, & Nim Tottenham (
@DANLAB_Columbia
)!
Welcome to Flux Congress 2022! We are so excited for our very first hybrid meeting! We’ll make occasional announcements and share info throughout the conference, so please follow along!
Note that there is a security check upon arrival. Please arrive early!
#Flux2022
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Meet Alexis Brieant (
@a_brieant
), a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University working with Dr. Dylan Gee (
@dylanggee
). Alexis's work focuses on the effects of adversity on child and adolescent neurodevelopment and mental health.
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Meet Seh-Joo Kwon (
@SehJooKwon
), a 4th year PhD student working with Dr. Eva Telzer (
@EvaTelzer
,
@DSNLab
) at UNC Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on how adolescents make decisions in a social context, and how the developing brain supports these behaviors.
🎤 NEW Sensitive Periods Podcast! 🎤
Graduate school applications are one of the most important parts of the scientific journey.
@MattMattoni
is joined by
@laurel_joy_gd
and
@EllieTaylor9_
to provide perspectives and tips for the process!
Paola Odriozola is a PhD student at Yale University in the CAND Lab, directed by Dr. Gee.
@PaolaOdriozola
studies how safety signals can reduce fear & optimize treatments for youth w/ anxiety. Fun fact: She crossed the USA-Mexico border for 12 years to go to school in San Diego.
This month’s Trainee Spotlight is on Scott Marek (
@smarek0502
). Scott is a postdoctoral research scholar working in Dr. Nico Dosenbach’s Lab (
@ndosenbach
,
@DosenbachLab
) at WashU in St. Louis. Scott’s work focuses on networks and oscillation supporting cognitive development.
🎤🎧 Episode 2 of the 2nd season of Sensitive Periods is OUT NOW! 🎧 🎤
@cecily_cardew
chats with
@NatalieHBrito
&
@katieinsel
about striving to impact public policy as developmental scientists! Lots of tips for trainees + lessons learned along the way.
Hi Flux attendees! We encourage you to fill out the mentorship matching survey by the end of Sunday. Mentors and mentees will have a 30min one-on-one session during or shortly after the congress and can discuss any topic to help the mentee's career
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Marjolein Barendse (
@marjoleinbar
) is a postdoctoral researcher in Jenn Pfeifer's (
@jennDSN
) Developmental Social Neuroscience lab at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on associations between pubertal development, structural and functional (1/3)
!! NEW BLOG POST !! Our 2023 Linda Spear Award winner, Lucina Uddin (
@LucinaUddin
) shares more about her work, mentorship, and thinking critically about the translation of neuroscience research. Congrats again, Lucina!
On Monday 9/20, come and join the affinity group meetings for BIPOC, First-Gen, LGBTQIA, and Allies & Advocates at
#Flux21
! Come and help cultivate and nurture sustainable connections with others working towards inclusivity in the Flux Society and beyond! 🧵 (1/4)
Learn about applications & challenges in using computational methods to predict brain development and psychopathology in youth in a symposium led by
@SarahLWhittle
at Flux 2023. We will hear from
@LucinaUddin
,
@TiffanyCheingHo
, Niousha Dehestani, and
@estenhl
!
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Katie Insel (
@katieinsel
) is a postdoc working with Dr. Daphna Shohamy at Columbia University. Katie's research focuses on how the multiple brain systems that support learning and memory mature during adolescence to guide adaptive decision making. (1/4)
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Meet Dr. Michelle Achterberg (
@_MAchterberg
)! She is a postdoc in Eveline Crone’s SYNC lab (
@SYNClabEUR
) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focusses on the underlying neural mechanisms of social emotion regulation in childhood. (1/3)
Join Closing Remarks of Beatriz Luna, Damien Fair at 12:45 PDT/3:45 EDT. Flux is grateful to all participants, presenters, workshop instructors, diversity group, flux board, program/trainee committee, & podium who made this conference wonderful✨✨ this year again!
We're happy to announce that our director Angela Friederici (
@MPI_CBS
) has been selected by
@fluxDCN
to receive the 2021 Huttenlocher Award. 🏅 In September, she will deliver the Huttenlocher Award Lecture including her vision for the field going forward.
The Mentor/Mentee Match is pairing mentees with someone in a more advanced career stage to provide valuable insights & guidance. We aim to match across career levels.
We are especially looking for faculty to sign up to mentor postdocs and grad students.
We're relaunching our Trainee Spotlight Series as we get closer to the 2020 Flux Virtual Congress! 💻 Stay tuned to learn about some of our outstanding trainees! 🌟🏅🎉
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Meet Kate Nussenbaum (
@katenuss
), a 5th year PhD student working in Dr. Cate Hartley’s lab at NYU(
@hartleylabnyu
). Kate’s research focuses on understanding developmental change in adaptive learning and memory processes.
We love you too, Paris! ❤️❤️🇨🇵
⏱️ ⏱️ Starting SOON!
Pre-conference workshop: The Developmental Neuroscience Cycle: from Research Design to Societal Impact
Are you faculty, working in industry, or have you navigated the job market after completing your PhD? Share your experiences with Flux! We are compiling public and anonymous responses to share with trainees at the Career Perspectives Panel at
#Flux2021
.
🚨 TRAINEES! 🚨 Want to join the Flux Trainee Committee? Send your CV & 400-a word statement on why you want to join, initiatives you'd introduce, and your leadership experience to fluxtrainees
@gmail
.com by *Nov 5th*. Actively seeking applicants from marginalized groups.
Don’t forget to register to attend this year’s Annual Flux Congress in Santa Rosa, CA. If you can’t make it this year, you can still attend online to soak up some fun. Share your favorite Flux memory! Register here *by June 29th for early bird rates *:
“She is an absolutely stellar scientist and I am very lucky to have had the opportunity to work with someone who is so fantastic and whose career trajectory is only moving up. But also I want to say that I’m really proud of who Denise is as a person.” - Dima Amso
#Flux2020
✨Trainee Spotlight✨ Jin Wang (
@jinwang18094089
) is a fourth-year doctoral student working in Dr. James Booth's Brain Development Lab (
@DrJamesBooth
) at Vanderbilt University. Jin’s work focuses on reading and language development in the brain. (1/3)
Deanna Barch outlining a thoughtful and comprehensive model for the pathway between poverty and depression...
Poverty --> Testosterone --> Hippocampus --> Emotion Dysregulation --> Depression
#flux2020
#fluxvirtual