We are excited to announce that Nhi Ngo has joined our research team as a Research Specialist! Nhi graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Neuroscience in May 2024. She has years of previous research lab experience as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Lab… Read more »
On July 22, 2024, our lab united with families, advocates, medical professionals, and researchers from USC’s Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopment Research, CandiLab, and NDD Lab at the SC Statehouse to recognize South Carolina Fragile X Awareness Day. People from across the state came together to raise awareness, show support, and stand strong as a community,… Read more »
Our new article was published in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Our study focused on understanding the early childhood communication profile of children with the FMR1 premutation. This genetic variant is known to lead to social communication difficulties in adulthood, but its impact during childhood is less understood. The research aimed to… Read more »
Our lab was thrilled to welcome Dr. Lauren Jenner, who will be joining us as the first ever LivJoy postdoctoral fellow, to Columbia as she prepares for her start next month. They showed Lauren around Columbia, which included a visit to a local favorite: Publico! Lauren completed her Ph.D. at the University of Surrey, UK… Read more »
We are excited to welcome our summer intern, Oluwatoni “Toni” Ariyo back to our research team! Toni is a rising high school senior and was awarded a NIH Research Diversity Supplement award to engage in research training with our team. Research Diversity Supplement awards aim to increase the participation of promising scholars from underrepresented groups… Read more »
The Development in Neurogenetic Disorders Lab (DND) at The University of Illinois is currently recruiting mothers and their 18- to 24-month-old sons with fragile X syndrome for a research study on what skills support early language development. For more information, please contact the DND lab by email: thedndlab@illinois.edu or their phone number: (217)-265-8043
Our paper titled, Characterizing the Social Interaction Style of Autism in Young Adult Males with Fragile X Syndrome, was published in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. This paper featured contributions from our former PhD student Carly Moser who is now at Vanderbilt University completing her postdoctoral fellowship, and our former undergraduate researcher Alyssa Campanelli who is… Read more »
Julia Pilewicz successfully presented her research project at Discover USC on Friday, April 19th. Her research project titled, Behaviors of Individuals with FXS are Associated with their Mothers’ Mental Health looked into the relationship between child behaviors and maternal well-being. and how these relationships changed with age. We are proud of you, Julia!
We are excited to introduce Blythe Vickery, who is now working in our lab as a project coordinator. Blythe is an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist with three years of research experience spanning both her undergraduate and graduate tenures at the University of South Carolina. Blythe completed graduate research culminating in a master’s thesis investigating factors… Read more »
We are excited to share that USC recently featured our study on their website. In the article, Dr. Klusek provides background on why our studies are important for women who are FMR1 premutation carriers and those who have children with Fragile X Syndrome. To read the article, use this link.