Meet Our Team

Principal Investigator

Susan B. Perlman, Ph.D.
Lab Director

Dr. Susan B. Perlman is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine and the director of the LCBD. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 in Psychology and her M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) from Duke University in Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is primarily interested in the neural underpinnings of the development of emotion regulation in young children including trajectories of abnormal emotion regulation and related psychopathology.

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Research Staff

Megan Schumer

*Lab Coordinator*
**see bio**

ANNA BANKSTON

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

TALIA HALLECK

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Bedilia Centeno

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Anoushka
Parnerkar

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Giulia Bottomley

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Linda Ortega

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Kayla Bock

*Research Assistant*
**see bio**

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Rebecca Schaff

Sydney Jennings

Ronak Chandiwala

Shri Jeyaram

Hannah Crawford

Olivia Leigh

Jaqueline Cardenas-López

Allie Findeisen

Current Collaborators

Anna Marsland, Ph.D. Website

Cheryl McNeil, Ph.D. Website

Deepu Murty, Ph.D. Website

Helmet Karim, Ph.D. Website

Joan Luby, M.D. Website

Kirsten Gilbert, Ph.D. Website

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Ph.D. Website

Lauren Wakschlag, Ph.D. Website

Nadine Melhem, Ph.D. Website

Lab Alumni

Dr. Yanwei Li, Ph.D.
Nanjing Xiaozhuang University

Dr. Adam Grabell, Ph.D. Website

Tyler Hein, Ph.D.
Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Dept of Veterans Affairs

Keya Ding, M.A., Ph.D candidate
Southeast University, China

Christina Hlutkowsky, B.S.
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student at Penn State

Lizzi Williams, B.A.
ABA Masters Degree student at Rollins University in Orlando, FL

Jenna Chin, B.A.
Developmental Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Denver

Emily Furtado, B.A.
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota

Emma Goldberg, B.A.
Counseling Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas

Justin Lopez, B.A.
Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Washington University St. Louis

Sarah Cole, B.A.
Health Science in Mental Health Masters candidate at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Alcess Nonot, B.A.
Research Coordinator at the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH) at University of Washington Seattle

Shreeja Vachhani, B.A.
Social Work Masters candidate at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Amanda Cramer, B.A.
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico

Kendall Tinianov, B.A.
Research Assistant at the Nock Lab at Harvard University

Dr. Kirk Graff, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Associate