Undergraduate research assistants Emily Mortman, Madison Monroe-Mohajerin and Madelyn Nance did a phenomenal job presenting their research projects at Department of Psychology at UVA's Annual Reid Conference. Way to go!

Graduate student Cabell Williams presenting her poster: “Dynamic Neural Systems of Social Touch in Infancy” #SANS2023

4th year undergraduate student, Madeline Ford, presented her Distinguished Majors Project at CogFest today, titled “The Development of the Mirror Neuron System in Infants in the First 8 Months of Life”. Great job, Madeline!

Congrats to Dr. Puglia on a fantastic keynote speech on giving a Keynote Talk on "Brain Function Following Preterm Birth" at the Central Virginia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience's Conference at JMU this past weekend!

Another milestone in the #pugliadevneurolab as we officially welcomed children into our lab our longitudinal #socialbraindevelopment research study! Thanks to these amazing twins for being amazing first participants. We cannot wait to invite more children back to the lab!

Check out this amazing work of our colleague, Dr. Mandy Rispoli, joined by our very own Haylee Ressa for a summer experience providing autism support to schools in Kenya! news.virginia.edu/content/uva-pa…

Congrats to our summer undergraduate research assistant, Sheher-Bano Ahmed, on presenting their research project at the UVA Summer Research Internship Program entitled "Effect of mast cell activation on infant response to social stimuli"!

Graduate student Cabell Williams has been awarded a Graduate Students of Arts and Sciences Council (GSASC) Research Grant for her project titled, "Bio-behavioral correlates of social touch processing in infancy." Congratulations, Cabell!

Undergraduate research assistant Shriya Varada has been awarded a Minerva Award for her project titled, "Characterizing Atypical Functional Connectivity in Preterm Infants." Congratulations, Shriya!

🧡💙 We love hearing about unexpected grantee collaborations (research + recycling) and how they’ve expanded! See how one email can make a difference. bit.ly/3uHSIJz Developmental Neuroanalytics Lab #grantproject #annualgrant #uva #jeffersontrust #grants #impactUVA

Dr. Meghan Puglia awarded $200,000 Grant from Jefferson Trust titled "The influence of early-life sensory exposure on neural circuitry following preterm birth" news.med.virginia.edu/research/megha…

Huge congratulations to undergraduate student, Macie Williams, and graduate student, Cabell Williams, on being awarded the Double Hoo Research Award for their project titled “Understanding the Neural Basis of Social Touch: an Asleep Infant fMRI Investigation”! Way to go!

Check out our amazing graduate student Cabell Williams at #SANS2024 presenting her poster titled "Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Social Touch Processing in Infancy" during Poster Session 3 this Saturday, 4/13, at 2:00!

Congrats to undergraduate Bridget Rodig for winning 2nd place at UVA CogFest for her poster presentation of her Distinguished Majors Project titled “ERP Response to C-Tactile Afferent Activation as a Biomarker for Autism in Preterm Infants”!

Also congrats to undergraduate Emily Davis for winning 3rd place at UVA CogFest for her poster presentation of her Distinguished Majors Project titled “Investigating the Effects of Multilingual Language Environments During Infancy on the Development of Face-Processing Systems”!

There were so many amazing talks and posters at the UVA Undergraduate Research Symposium today, including our very own undergraduates Emily Mundy, Macie Tran, Avery Dougald, Emily Davis and Haylee Ressa!

Congrats to undergraduate student, Madeleine Ames, for winning 3rd place at the UVA Neuroscience Fozdar Symposium for her talk titled "Investigating the Effects of Sibling Relationships on Infant Socialization"!

Check out Lab Technician’s, Madelyn Nance, talk at ICIS on 7/10 at 8:30am titled “Hypoxic-ischemic injury in the preterm infant: Predictive risk models for autism spectrum disorder”! #ICIS2024

Graduate student Cabell Williams is presenting her poster titled “Behavioral correlates of social touch processing in infant fMRI” on July 11 at 10:15 during ICIS Poster Session 3! Go check it out! #ICIS2024

Check out this editorial co-authored by Research Assistant Campbell Coleman, about how advancements in neuroinformatics can provide insights into brain function and behavior: Towards Comprehensive Connectivity Modeling: doi.org/10.1007/s12021…