Kathleen Meeks

Graduate student

Preferred Pronouns

she/her/hers

Summary Statement

Kathleen is interested in the development of mood disorders and impulse-control disorders during adolescence, particularly within the context of neurobiological changes as analyzed via fMRI data, specifically resting-state data analyses.

Department

Graduate Student

Education

M.S. Neuroscience, Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, August 2023 (4.0 cumulative G.P.A.)
B.A. Biology, B.A. Music, Clinical Psychology minor, University of Rochester, May 2013 (3.6 cumulative G.P.A., Dean’s List)

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kxm5964@psu.edu

Affiliations

Advisor: Jennifer Maggs

Professional Experience

Awards and honors:

Marjorie M. Knoll Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, College of Health and Human Development, May 2023
The Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award, Life and Health Sciences Area, April 2023
2nd place - 2023 Graduate Research Exhibition, Social & Behavioral Sciences research poster presentation category, April 2023

Publications

Suresh Nair, M., Dao, N. C., Lopez Melean, D., Griffith, K. R., Starnes, W. D., Moyer, J. B., Sicher, A. R., Brockway, D. F., Meeks, K. D., & Crowley, N. A. (2022). Somatostatin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis play a sex-dependent role in binge Drinking. Brain research bulletin, 186, 38–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2022.05.010
Pearson, T. S., Gilbert, L., Opladen, T., Garcia-Cazorla, A., Mastrangelo, M., Leuzzi, V., Tay, S., Sykut-Cegielska, J., Pons, R., Mercimek-Andrews, S., Kato, M., Lücke, T., Oppebøen, M., Kurian, M. A., Steel, D., Manti, F., Meeks, K. D., Jeltsch, K., & Flint, L. (2020). AADC deficiency from infancy to adulthood: Symptoms and developmental outcome in an international cohort of 63 patients. Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 43(5), 1121–1130. https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12247
Li Z, Del-Aguila JL., Dube U, Budde J, Martinez R, Black K, et al. (2018). Genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease confer different cerebral cortex cell-type population structure. Genome Med. 10:43. doi: 10.1186/s13073-018-0551-4
Fernández MV, Black K, Carrell D, Saef B, Budde J, Deming Y, Howells B, Del-Aguila JL, Ma S, Bi C, Norton J, Chasse R, Morris J, Goate A, Cruchaga C; NIA-LOAD family study group, NCRAD: SORL1 variants across Alzheimer's disease European American cohorts. Eur J Hum Genet. 2016 Dec; 24(12):1828-1830.
Eisenstein SA, Koller JM, Black KD, Ushe M, Tabbal SD, Karimi M, Campbell MC, Lugar HM, Hershey T, Perlmutter JS, Black KJ: Functional anatomy of subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson disease. Ann Neurol 2014; 76:279-295.