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Team members

Jared Balbona

Jared Balbona

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jared is a postdoctoral fellow interested in studying the intergenerational transmission of complex human traits in diverse populations.

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Alicia Cuñado

Alicia Cuñado

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alicia is an undergraduate majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience and Anthropology: Global Health and Environment. She has been involved in research in the lab since January 2024.

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Pamela Romero Villela

Pamela Romero Villela

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Pamela is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab since summer of 2024. She is interested in studying minority health outcomes from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Emma Johnson

Emma Johnson

Assistant Professor

Emma is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at WUSM. She studies substance use and mental health by applying statistical genetics, bioinformatics, and epidemiological methods to large-scale datasets.

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Alumni

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Lori Lin

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Lori was an undergraduate research assistant in the lab from 2022 to 2023 and worked on a project related to polygenic scores for cognitive and non-cognitive factors in the ABCD Study. She recently completed her masters degree at the University of Michigan and is planning to pursue a PhD in genetics.

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Sarah Colbert

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Sarah worked as a post-bac at WUSM from 2021 to 2022 and is now an NSF-funded PhD student at Mount Sinai. She led a range of projects during her time at WUSM, from studying autozygosity and cognitive performance in the ABCD Study to the genomic overlap between substance use disorders and suicide-related phenotypes.

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