The Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and Society will host its third Lunchtime Lab on Monday, April 28, focusing on the topics of trauma and resilience with lightning talks from Joe Cohen, Clarissa Richardson, and Paul Bonthuis.

The Lunchtime Lab series aims to explore the connections between genes, brain, behavior, and mental health with attention to the social context. Each session will feature lightning talks from researchers across a range of disciplines, showcasing insights into both animal and human models. The goal is to spark interdisciplinary connections, ignite new research ideas, and pave the way for future seed funding opportunities in Fall 2025. Lunch will be provided.

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Where & When:

April 28 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm
School of Social Work, Room 2015 | 1010 W. Nevada St., Urbana

About the Speakers

Joe Cohen is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on how and why certain children and adolescents go on to develop internalizing symptoms, examining the prospective interplay between cognitive, interpersonal, and physiological vulnerability factors and the onset and maintenance of depression.

Clarissa Richardson is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Springfield. Her research focuses on perfectionism, stress, trauma, and coping as well as community-based interventions to improve mental health knowledge and access.

Paul Bonthuis is an assistant professor of comparative biosciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research is focused on epigenetic regulation of gene expression patterns in the brain and their effects on social behaviors and psychiatric diseases.