Summer Mengelkoch, PhD
@PsychdOnScience
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Postdoc @UCLA📚 Visiting postdoctoral scholar @Stanford 🧬 Science junkie 🔬 Dog mom 🐾 I study stress, health, & birth control use from an evo perspective
Joined January 2020
Ok I finally got my favorite paper published: Here’s why I think it’s cool (a thread): we looked at relationships between facial attractiveness ratings and immune function, using multiple in vitro immune challenge assays.
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It has long been hypothesized that attractiveness provides a cue to a target's health and immunocompetence. However, much of the research testing this hypothesis has relied on a small number of...
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RT @katiefirestone: Our awesome research assistant @afshar_kimya is attending her first conference #SPSP25 this week! Check out what we've….
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Did you know that hormonal contraceptives can affect your #immune system & #health⁉️. In this new review, @PsychdOnScien….
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Now published, the protocol paper for our massive #multiomics-based precision medicine study on #stress, #health & #resi….
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Now published, our new article on the molecular basis of risk for #depression in adolescent #females. Check it out at: h….
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RT @CALSTARNetwork: Congratulations to our STAR researchers @PsychdOnScience and @MathildaNS1220 for their amazing achievements this year.….
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So honored to have been selected to receive the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research today! 🥰
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Curious about how #stress affects #health? Listen to (and please share!) my recent podcast episode on the topic with the….
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RT @joshtybur: I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarit….
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We are especially recruiting ER residents with anxiety 👀.
We are recruiting healthcare workers to participate in our study! Together, we seek a novel therapeutic solution to alleviate anxiety symptoms and burnout in our valuable healthcare workers. Click on the link to learn more/participate! .
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RT @NTFabiano: This theory is from an article in @healthpsychrev which uses the primary goal of the human brain as the basis for specifying….
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RT @emilyjacobs: 📢Mark your calendars and help us spread the word for the next speaker in the Bowers WBHI Seminar Series! Prof. Adrienne Be….
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RT @UArkPsych: Pre-proof available online for new research from a team including @uarkfulbright faculty Drs. Stacey Makhanova & Grant Shiel….
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RT @dp_moriarity: Mark your calendars for @srp_science 2024!. Our precision psychopathology treatment symposia will be Sunday morning (with….
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RT @urszulammarcin1: I search for PhD candidates @JagiellonskiUni Project on #sexhormones #menstrualcycle #stress, #reproductivehealth & li….
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RT @katiefirestone: Excited to attend @PsychScience for this first time and present my poster “Body Awareness Moderates the Efficacy of a P….
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Now online, our new article titled "Multi-omics in #stress and #health research: Study designs that will drive the field….
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RT @GeorgeSlavich: Now published, "Human #immune & #metabolic biomarker levels, & stress-biomarker associations, differ by season: Implicat….
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RT @PsychdOnScience: PNI twitter: I need to store some DBS samples for a few months for cytokine assays. For logistical reasons, I need a n….
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(My impression of DBS storage is that cytokines are relatively stable at least -20, but I haven’t tested it. Does anyone have data/experience of that not being true?).
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