Faculty

Department Welcomes Marianne Seney, PhD as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Please join us in welcoming Marianne Seney, PhD to the Department of Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Seney's research focuses on the cellular/molecular bases of sexual dimorphisms in the vulnerability to develop mood disorders using relevant rodent models. As a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and with support from...

Melynda Casement, PhD Appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Congratulations to Melynda Casement, PhD on her appointment to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Casement is a clinical scientist who studies the neurocognitive mechanisms by which stressful life events and insufficient sleep contribute to depression and other forms of psychopathology. Her...

Jill Glausier, PhD Appointed Instructor of Psychiatry Dr. Glausier's future research plans include investigating excitatory signaling and oxidative phosphorylation alterations in schizophrenia. This line of research will include laser capture microdissection and gene expression profiling in discrete cell types in postmortem human tissue and EM studies to evaluate the morphological correlates of the abnormal...

Lauren M. Bylsma, PhD Welcomed to Department of Psychiatry Faculty The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to welcome Lauren Bylsma, PhD to its faculty. Dr. Bylsma earned her BA in Psychology in 2003 and an MA in Liberal Arts in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania. After working in for two years at Penn?s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, she went on to obtain an MA (2008) and PhD (2012) in Clinical...

The receipt of a researcher's first R01 grant is an important milestone in their career as an independent scientist. Investigators in the Department of Psychiatry that transitioned from career development awards to their first R01 awards during the past year are embarking on the next phase of their academic careers and represent the diversity of research interests in the department. Susanne E. Ahmari, MD...

Dr. Jennings is presented with theDistinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology Award byDr. Maurits van der Molen of Holland The Society for Psychophysiological Research has presented J. Richard Jennings, Professor of Psychiatry, with the Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology Award. Dr. Jennings was presented with the award at the Society's annual meeting in September 10-14, 2014 in Atlanta, GA. The...