Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development  learned a lot at the Flux 2024 conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Congratulations to Livia Merrill, Andrea Ortiz Jimenez, and Anna Galvan, they did such an incredible job presenting their posters.

Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development  welcomes the newest addition to our team! Marguerite Knudtson, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student.

Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development had a great time hosting a neuroimaging training for special guests from Bangladesh and Sam Houston University. 

Congratulations to Haley Laughlin, as she was invited to present at FIT'NG (Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group) conference this September in Baltimore, MD.

LEED welcomes 2 new summer volunteers. Welcome to the team April Aragon and Ashlie Mai!

Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development participated in  Race to Camp 5K Fun Run on Saturday, April 20th! 

We had a blast spending time outside with such beautiful weather and running to help raise money for kids the opportunity to attend a summer camp.

Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development and Children's Learning Institute had a great time volunteering together at Brain Night for KIDS at the Houston Health Museum. We really enjoyed seeing children excited to learn more about the brain. 

Livia Merrill’s paper “Age-Dependent Associations Between RSA Reactivity, Affective and Cognitive Regulation and Psychopathology Risk in Young Children Exposed to Varying Level of Socioeconomic Disadvantage” has been accepted for publication in the Developmental Psychobiology journal.

Today is Developmental , Cognitive, and Behavioral Neuroscience (DCBN) interview day! Laboratory of Early Experiences and Development is happy to welcome new applicants for their interviews. Graduate students and staff have prepared presentations of the work LEED has done and also they will talk about the personal projects they are working on. 

It's the start of a new semester! Wishing all our graduate and undergraduate students the best of luck this semester in their studies! We are looking forward to seeing the projects everyone will be working on throughout the semester. 

Laboratory of Early Experience and Development was able to connect with parents and inform them about who we are and talk to them about our work at Discovery Green during Toddler Tuesdays.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Lipschutz, for successfully defending her doctoral thesis!

 Congratulations to Shutian Shen, Xinge Li,  Kelly Barry, Haley Laughlin, and Anna Galvan for getting their posters accepted into the annual Flux conference. 

DCBN student, Shutian Shen, successfully defended her master's thesis.

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Rebecca Lipschutz, had her manuscript accepted for publication in Devlopment and Psychopathology.

LEED welcomes two new undergraduate research assistants to the team;  Alia Khan and Maya Flores

It’s Picture day here at LEED Lab.  

Top row: Livia Merril, Hayley Laughlin, and Andrea Ortiz Jimenez

Middle row: Shutian Shen, Xinge Li, Deja Hatcher, and Anna Galvan

Bottom row: Kelly Barry, Dr. Johanna Bick, and Parsa Taheri  

Xinge Li, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, presented a poster at the 2022 FLUX Conference.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Juan Pablo Guardia, has completed his SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) internship with LEED Lab this summer. Working with 2 different LEED projects PANDA, and WOMBS, furthering his understanding in research. 

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Xinge Li, defended her master's thesis.

DCBN Student, Livia Merrill, defended her master's thesis.

DCBN Student, Livia Merrill, was awarded the Anh Lac Tran Scholarship.

Congratulations to Anna Galvan on her promotion as a Research Technician 1.

LEED Lab welcomes 3 new research assistants into the team; Anna Galvan, Mariana Ramos- Celedon, and Juan Pablo Guardia.

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Xinge Li, gave an oral presentation at the fNIRS Virtual Conference.

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Rebecca Lipschutz, received the Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship (CGSSF) help fund her dissertation research on prenatal stress and infant development!

DCBN Student, Livia Merrill, presented a poster for the Society of Research in Child Development conference.

UH interviewed Dr. Bick and Rebecca Lipschutz about the Harvey Mom Study and how Hurricane Harvey impacts child development.

LEED receives funding from NIH to collaboratively examine how a remotely delivered early parenting intervention can support healthy self regulation and brain development in toddlers born extremely preterm! This is a collaboration with Drs. Susan Landry and Dana DeMaster at UTHealth

LEED welcomes two new graduate students: Shutian Shen (DCBN program) and Xinge Li (Child Clinical Psychology Program)! 

LEED study featured on NPR’s “The Pulse: “Does a mom’s stress affect her offspring for generations?”

https://whyy.org/segments/does-a-moms-stress-affect-her-offspring-for-generations/

LEED is interviewed by ABC 13 about a new study on how Hurricane Harvey related stress may impact pregnant mothers and their babies.

https://abc13.com/uh-studying-stress-of-hurricane-harvey-and-pregnancy/3080136/

LEED welcomes graduate students Rebecca Lipschutz (Child Clinical Psychology Track) and Brian Biekman (Clinical Neuropsychology Track)!