Big news at the Hayden Lab this Fall!

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Welcome to Jennifer Mullen who will be starting the Master's program this Fall!

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Welcome to Matthew Brown who is now being co-supervised by Dr. Hayden and Dr. Kasey Stanton!

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Grants & Awards:

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Congratulations to Dr. Hayden for receiving a SSHRC Insight grant for the project "A developmental approach to understanding sex and gender differences in the evolution of stress exposure and stress sensitivity"!

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Congratulations to Pan for receiving a BrainsCAN Accelerator Stimulus grant for the project "Altering high-risk trajectories in adolescent depression via attention bias modification training: Neural predictors and mechanisms"!

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Congratulations to Andrew for receiving the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship through NSERC!

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Achievements:

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Congratulations to lab alumnus Yuliya Kotelnikova on receiving a faculty position at the University of New Orleans!

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Congratulations to lab alumnus Christina McDonnell and friend of the lab Kasey Stanton on their new faculty positions at Virginia Tech!

Congratulations to Lindsay on successfully defending her Master's thesis!

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A bittersweet farewell to Christina, who is moving on to start her own lab as a professor in Virginia Tech University!

A warm welcome to Christina McDonnell who has joined the lab as a Postdoctoral fellow, having earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Notre Dame.

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In September, lab members will be the presenting 3 posters at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Indianapolis. Safe travels!

A big congratulations to Ola and Andrew on successfully defending their theses!

A warm welcome to Pan Liu, who will be joining the lab in the Fall as a post-doc. Pan received her PhD in social neuroscience from McGill University in 2015, and is currently a post-doc at Penn State.

​A warm welcome to Lindsay Gabel who will be joining the lab this Fall!

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Sarah Mackrell has successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Vulnerability to Depression in Middle Childhood: The Role of Pubertal Development and Cortisol Reactivity in Risk for Depression". You can download her thesis here. Congratulations, Doctor!

Congratulations to Yuliya Kotelnikova who has sucessfully defended her doctoral thesis! Yuliya will be completing her residency at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, NS. You can download her thesis, entitled "The Nature and Structure of Temperament in Early and Middle Childhood: A Multi-Method Approach" here. 

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Congratulations to Matthew Vandermeer, who has been awarded the Frederick Banting & Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award, and the Western Doctoral Excellence Research Award 2016.

Andrew Daoust and Ola Mohamed Ali will be joining The Personality and Emotion Development Lab this Fall!

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Congratulations to Yuliya Kotelnikova , who will be completing her predoctoral residency at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, NS (child and adolescent clinical psychology track). Yuliya will also be presenting "Predictors of latent cortisol trajectory classes in the context of stress" at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL, USA.

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Matthew Vandermeer will be presenting "Relationship quality moderates mother-father personality agreement" at  the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL, USA.

Congratulations to Victoria Johnson and Sarah Ouellette, who have obtained their Master of Science degrees!

Yuliya Kotelnikova presented a poster entitled ''The serotonin transporter gene and stress interact to predict children’s attentional biases for positive stimuli'' at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, in Evanston, IL.

Matt Vandermeer will be joining the The Personality and Emotion Development Lab this Fall! 

Congratulations to Haroon Sheikh, who has recently been awarded a prestigious CIHR Fellowship to support his current project entitled "Identification of rare de novo mutations in bipolar disorder: A whole-exome sequencing study."

Victoria Johnson, Yuliya Kotelnikova, Sarah Mackrell, and Sarah Ouellette  presented posters at the annual conference for the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Evanston, IL. 

Yuliya Kotelnikova has had the following articles published: 

Kotelnikova Y., Vernon, P.A., Clark, L.A., & Hayden, E.P. (2014). Development and validation of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality – Brief Self-Description Rating Form (SNAP – BSRF). Assessment. doi: 1073191114534959

Kotelnikova, Y., Mackrell, S. V.M., Jordan, P., & Hayden, E.P. (2014). Associations between reactive and regulatory temperament traits and depressive symptoms in middle childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 

Congratulations to Katie Kryski, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled ''Biological and contextual correlates of cortisol reactivity in early childhood''! Katie will be completing her residency in Calgary, where she matched with her first choice institution!

Congratulations to Haroon Sheikh, who successfully defended his Ph.D entitled ''Molecular genetics of HPA axis reactivity''! Haroon will be completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa!

Congratulations to Victoria Johnson, who has been awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship for 2014-2015!
 

Congratulations to Yuliya Kotelnikova, who has been awarded a Marilyn (Pack) McClelland Award in Psychology!
 

Congratulations to Sarah Ouellette, who has been awarded a Ralph S. Devereux Award in Psychology!

Congratulations to Sarah Mackrell, who has had the following article published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology:

Mackrell, S.V., Sheikh, H.I., Kotelnikova, Y., Kryski, K.R., Jordan, P.L., Singh, S.M., &Hayden, E.P. (2014) Child temperament and parental depression predict cortisol reactivity to stress in middle childhood. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123,106-116.

Katie Kryski has had the following article published:

Kryski, K., Smith, H., Sheikh, H., Singh, S., & Hayden, E. (2014). Evidence for evocative gene-environment correlation between child oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genotype and caregiver behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 64, 107-110.

Congratulations to Katie Kryski, who has been awarded a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, which will allow her to work with Dr. Klein at SUNY Stony Brook in the Spring of 2014.

Congratulations to Dr. Hayden, who has been awarded a Faculty Scholar Award!

Sarah Ouellette and Victoria Johnson will be starting their Master's at The Personality and Emotion Development Lab this Fall!

Sarah Mackrell will be presenting a poster at the 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Seattle, Washington and has had the following article published in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences: Negative life events and vulnerability to depression: Informant effects and sex differences in the prediction of depressive symptoms in middle childhood. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 463-468.

Heather Smith has had the following article accepted for publication in the journal Developmental Science: Smith, H.J., Kryski, K.R., Sheikh, H.I., Singh, S.M., & Hayden, E.P. (in press).  The role of positive parenting and children’s dopamine D4 receptor variation in predicting effortful control. Developmental Science.

Katie Kryski will be presenting two posters at the 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Seattle, Washington, and has had the following article accepted for publication:

Kryski, K.R., Dougherty, L. R., Dyson, M. W., Olino, T. M., Laptook, R. S., Hayden, E. P., & Klein, D. N. (in press).  Effortful Control and Parenting: Associations with HPA Axis Reactivity in Early Childhood. Developmental Science.

Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Sheikh, H. I., Singh, S. M., & Hayden, E. P. (in press). HPA Axis Reactivity in Early Childhood: Associations with Symptoms and Moderation by Sex. Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Haroon Sheikh has had the following articles published/accepted for publication: 

Sheikh, H. I., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., Klein, D. N., Singh, S. M., Hayden, E. P. (in press). Catechol-O-Methyltransferase gene val158met polymorphism and depressive symptoms during early childhood. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 

Sheikh, H. I., Hayden, E. P., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., & Singh, S. M. (2013). Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone System Polymorphisms are Associated with Children's Cortisol Reactivity. Neuroscience, 229, 1-11.

Yuliya Kotelnikova will be presenting two posters at the 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Seattle, Washington.

Katie Kryski will be presenting a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Sarah Mackrell will be presenting two posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Yuliya Kotelnikova will be giving a community talk as a part of the Laura Evans Lecture Series at Western University, and will be presenting a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Heather Smith has had the following article published in the journal Child Development: Smith, H.J., Sheikh, H.I., Dyson, M.W., Olino, T.M., Laptook, R.S., Hayden, E.P., Singh, S.M., & Klein, D.N. (2012). Parenting and child DRD4 genotype interact to predict children’s early emerging effortful control. Child Development, 83, 1932-34.

Yuliya Kotelnikova has been awarded a Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI) Graduate Fellowship for 2012-2013 as well as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship for 2013-2016.

Sarah Mackrell has been awarded a Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI) Graduate Fellowship for 2012-2013

Katie Kryski will be presenting two posters at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathogical Association in New York City, and will be giving a community talk as part of the Finding Your Way Library Series at the London Central Library. She has also been awarded funding to to attend CCCHR Joint Trainee Symposium in Calgary Alberta as a representative of the Children’s Health Research Institute.

Yuliya Kotelnikova will be giving a community talk as part of the Finding Your Way Library Series at the London Central Library. She will also be giving a talk as a part of the Laura Evans Lecture Series at Western University.

Heather Smith will be presenting two posters at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathogical Association in New York City.

Katie Kryski will be presenting a poster at the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics in Montreal, QC, and will be speaking at a symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Boston, Massachusetts.

Katie Kryski has been awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for 2011-2014.

Yuliya Kotelnikova has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, as well as a Children’s Health Research Institute Graduate Fellowship for 2011-2012.

Brigitte Hanna has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2011-2012.

Brigitte Hanna has had a poster accepted for the meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. 

Sarah Mackrell has been awarded a studentship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for 2011-2014, and has had a poster accepted for the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Heather Smith has been awarded a studentship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for 2011-2014, and has had a poster accepted for the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Katie Kryski has had a poster accepted for the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Yuliya Kotelnikova has had a poster accepted for the meeting of the Association of Psychological Science. 

Katie Kryski has had the following article accepted for publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology:

Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Sheikh, H. I., Singh, S. M., & Hayden, E. P. (in press). Assessing stress reactivity indexed via salivary cortisol in preschool-aged children. Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Katie Kryski has recently been awarded the 2010 Marilyn (Pack) McLelland Award ($550) which is awarded to one graduate student in psychology based on academic achievement, research productivity and quality of research publications.

Brigitte Hanna has been awarded a Master's Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 2010-2011.

Katie Kryski currently holds a studentship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for 2010-2013, and was recently awarded a Distinguished Contribution award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology for her presentation at their student poster contest at the Association for Psychological Sciences' 2010 annual convention in Boston, MA. 

Sarah Mackrell has been granted an award for 2010-2011 for the Children's Health Research Institute's Quality of Life Initiative.

Haroon Sheikh currently holds a scholarship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.

Heather Smith has been awarded a Master's Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 2010-2011.