Welcome, new lab members Caitlin and Katarina to the ACORN lab! We are so happy to have you join our team!

ACORN lab members went to the dairy bar for some post-lab meeting ice cream fun!

Lab members Heather Robinson, Niyati Dave, Anna Wagner, Natalie Kells, Arielle Keller, and collaborator Ran Barzilay have had their article, “The effect of the ‘exposome’ on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes,” accepted and published in Neuropsychopharmacology. Congrats to all lab members who worked on this paper, and especially to the lead author, Heather Robinson!

 

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ACORN’s lab director, Arielle Keller, and graduate student, Heather Robinson, have had their article “Reproducible sex differences in personalized functional network topography in youth” accepted and published by The British Journal of Psychiatry. Congrats Arielle and Heather on this awesome accomplishment!!

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Congratulations Natalie & Niyati on graduating from UConn!

Lab Members Heather Robinson, Natalie Kells, and Anna Wagner present the ACORN lab poster at the IBACS 2025 End of Year Event.

The ACORN lab had its end of semester lab outing at Firestone painting pottery!

Graduate student Heather Robinson presented her outstanding poster at the Psychological Sciences department’s Spooktacular Poster Night! This Halloween event featured both awesome costumes and awesome science! Way to go Heather!!

Our first ACORN Lab lunch outing with our guest scientist Dr. Hamsi Radhakrishnan! Hamsi visited UConn to share her expertise about diffusion tensor imaging to see white matter tracts in the human brain!