End-of-Semester Social, May 2 | 4:30 - 6:30 PM | The Graduate Hotel
All CAN members are invited to celebrate the end of the semester at The Graduate! This includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff.
Join us for one of our upcoming events! We host a variety of programming opportunities for researchers, families, and trainees each semester.
All CAN members are invited to celebrate the end of the semester at The Graduate! This includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff.
Join us for the annual CAN Research Center Fall Retreat! This gathering of CAN members will feature networking opportunities, updates about CAN Research Center next steps, and speakers. Breakfast and lunch will be provided!
Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Join us on September 5 to learn about his research!
We host 3 weekly science meetings each month for CAN Research Center members (faculty, trainees, undergraduates, staff). The goal of these meetings is to share and update each other on research progress -- including new findings, new or upcoming grant submissions, and a space to discuss research obstacles and successes.
All meetings are held virtually from 8:30-9:15am. Email can@sc.edu to learn more and attend!
Grant update and input
Updates on research projects from lab members
Discussion about partnership with the USC Department of Theatre and Dance on a summer camp for autistic children.
Preclinical sleep studies
Teacher Data-Based Decision Making
Attention, heart rate, infants, and Autism
Williams Syndrome
Anxiety in Autism
The CAN Research Center invites eminent scholars in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders to share their research with the USC community.
Title TBD
Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, M.D.
Suzanne Crosby Murphy Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), and Columbia University
"Epistasis and the Genetics Architecture of Quantitative Traits: Lessons From Drosophila"
Trudy Mackay, Ph.D.
"Social-Communication Biomarkers: Quantification and Qualification for Clinical Trial Improvement"
Sara Jane Webb, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute
Associate Director and Director of Clinical Translational Core of UW's Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
South Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Consortium annual retreat
Hosted by CAN Research Center. Invited speakers including:
"Early Detection of Autism"
Diana Robins, Ph.D.
Director and Professor, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute., Drexel University
"Increasing Access to Parent-Mediated Interventions for Autism in the Community:
Project ImPACT as a Case Example"
Brooke Ingersoll, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of the MSU Autism Lab, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
"mRNA Transport, Local Translation & Neurological Disease"
Gary J. Bassell, Ph.D.
"Measuring Anxiety in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder"
Lawrence Scahill, Ph.D.
Neurobiologically-Grounded Signatures of Autism in Infants
Kristina Denisova, Ph.D.
Effect of early-life immune activation on the ontogeny of learning: Importance for
understanding the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders
Jaclyn M. Schwarz, Ph.D.
Hiding in Plain Sight? A Deeper Look at Females on the Autism Spectrum
Clare Harrop, Ph.D.
Progress in Biomarker Development in Autism
James McPartland, Ph.D.
Understanding (and Supporting) Autistic Girls Through Multi-Method Quantitative Phenotyping
Julia Parish-Morris, Ph.D.
Catch Me If You Can: Novel Mechanisms of Social Functioning and Intervention in Youth
with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Matthew D. Lerner, Ph.D.
Unraveling Mechanisms of Social Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Katrina Choe
Dimensions and Taxons: Catalyzing a New Frontier in Autism Research
Jed Elison, Ph.D.
Bridging the Gap from Genes to Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Benjamin Auerbach
Getting Answers from Babies About Autism
Mayada Elsabbagh, Ph.D.
Astrocyte-Neuron Communication During Synapse Development for Health and Disease
Dr. Isabella Farhy-Tselnicke
Translating EEG Biomarkers in Autism and Fragile X Syndrome: From Mice to Microstates
to Minocycline
Lauren Etheridge, Ph.D.
Local Protein Synthesis During Neural Development: implications for Health and Disease
Dr. Kristy Welshhans