Sex Differences in Autism: new insights from behavior, neuroimaging, and genetics.
Tue, Jun 04
|Zoom
Time & Location
Jun 04, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Zoom
Guests
About the event
ALL WELCOME, EVEN THOSE WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY BAAC MEMBERS!
Join us on Tuesday, June 4th, 202 11:00am-12:00pm for our first Quarterly Meeting of the year!
Quimby Lee and Andy Dakopolos will present on and discuss their research on the topic: "Sex Differences in Autism: new insights from behavior, neuroimaging, and genetics."
Quimby is a fourth year PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group at UC Davis, where she is co-mentored by Dr. Audrey Fan, in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, and Dr. Christine Wu Nordahl at the MIND Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UC San Diego, where she conducted research using eye-tracking as a prognostic tool for autism. After graduating, she worked on the ABCD study at SRI International. Her current research optimizes measures of cerebrovascular function using resting-state functional MRI in pediatric and autistic populations.
Andy is a postdoctoral…