Meet Dr. Gabe Zieff, our new postdoctoral fellow at the DAS Lab!
Dr. Gabriel Zieff is a Killam and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his BS in Health and Exercise Sciences from Skidmore College, and both his Master’s in Exercise Physiology and PhD in Human Movement Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gabriel’s research interests encompass the effects of […]
Meet Seonwoo Hong, our new graduate student!
Seon received a B.Sc (Honours) in Psychology at McGill University and is currently a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program at UBC. She is interested in exploring how experiences of stress lead to the development of depression in adolescents and young adults Her favourite part of being in the lab is working together with […]
TWO NEW PAPERS on stress generation in Psych Bull and Clinical Psychology Review!
Two new papers coming out on stress generation are co-led by Katerina Rnic and reflect UBC’s (Joelle LeMoult and Katerina Rnic) multi-year collaboration with Western University (faculty member David Dozois), University of Rochester (faculty Lisa Starr and grad student Angela Santee), and a cross-university team of incredibly dedicated undergraduate and post-bac RAs (Jennifer-Ashley Hoffmeister, Hallie […]
Ellen Jopling is headed off to Boston where she will be doing her residency at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital!
Congratulations Ellen! Ellen matched at her first-choice internship program and is headed off to Boston to complete her residency at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital! We’ll miss you in the lab every week but are so excited for you to take this next step!
Dr. Rnic presented at the ACBM Conference!
Dr. Katerina Rnic received a travel award to represent the lab at the Association for Cognitive Bias Modification (ACBM) Conference in Bethesda, Maryland! She presented her symposium talk, “Development of a Novel Cognitive Control Training Task Targeting Inhibitory, Shifting, and Updating Biases for Individuals with Elevated Depressive Symptoms.”
Alison Tracy successfully defended her dissertation!
Huge congratulations to Ali for successfully defending her dissertation!! Ali doctoral work examined the association of self-compassion and responses to stress in youth. Following her official graduation date, she will be transitioning to her new position in the Mood & Anxiety Disorders Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital! Congratulations Ali! We are so proud of you!
Bronwen Grocott won the Super SSHRC to fund her Ph.D.!!
Congrats to Bronwen who received a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship! Her proposal was titled, “Biopsychosocial mechanisms in the reciprocal association between loneliness and emotional well-being.” Stay tuned to hear more about her research. She is incredibly grateful to SSHRC (the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) for supporting her graduate research. Congratulations Bronwen! This is a […]
Ashley, Katerina, and Bronwen went to the SAS Conference!
In March 2023, Ashley, Katerina and Bronwen presented at the Society for Affective Science (SAS) conference in California. Ashley Battaglini presented a new research idea with her poster called: “Co-rumination Across Multiple Relationships during Early Adolescence: Does it Perpetuate Future Co-rumination and Depressive Symptoms?” Co-rumination involves rehashing and discussing negative feelings and problems with another […]