Colloquia Videos

April 24, 2017

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D

Founders Endowment for Excellence and Innovation Research Day
Talk title: "How stress kills: The damage and some remedies."
Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University, Columbus OH

April 17, 2017

Keith Whitfield, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Sources of individual variability in health among African Americans."
University Provost
Wayne State University, Detroit MI

March 27, 2017

Anna Marsland, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Inflammation and neurocognitive aging."
Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

February 27, 2017

Christopher Coe, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Prenatal origins of resilience and vulnerability."
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison WI

February 13, 2017

Martin Picard, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Stress and health from organelle to organism: A mitochondrial perspective."
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
Columbia University, New York City NY

November 14, 2016

Lars Larsson, M.D., Ph.D.

Talk title: "Weak by machines: Skeletal muscle as a target in intensive care unit patients"
Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Karolinska Institute & Hospital, Stockholm Sweden
Marie Underhill Noll Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health
Penn State University, University Park PA
Research Interests: Mechanisms of impaired muscle function with aging and related interventions

October 31, 2016

Erika Saunders, M.D.

Talk title: "The roller coaster of bipolar disorder: Linking diet, inflammation, and mood"
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Mood Disorders Program
Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey PA
Research Interests: Biological and genetic underpinning of mood disorders including sleep phenotypes, mood outcome and inflammation, stress hormones, and metabolites of fatty acid pathways

October 17, 2016

Eun Kyoung Choe, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Personal informatics: Empowering people though self-knowledge and reflection"
Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn State University, University Park PA
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, health informatics, and designing, developing, and evaluating technology to promote health sleep behaviors and physical activities

October 3rd, 2016

Jennie Noll, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Stress-specific versus sex-specific outcomes for childhood sexual abuse survivors"
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies Director,
Network on Child Protection and Well-Being
Penn State University, University Park PA
Research Interests: Bio-psycho-social consequences of abused and neglected youth; midlife reversibility of neurocognitive deficits in stress-exposed populations

September 19th, 2016

Greg Miller, Ph.D.

Talk title: "Biological consequences of socioeconomic disadvantage in early life"
Professor, Department of Psychology & Medical Social Sciences
Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Research Interests: Effects of early life stress on health