Kate Webb, PhD

she/her | neuroscientist | #APOPOHeroRATS

[Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @DukePsychiatry]

Congratulations to Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Kate Webb on receiving a Duke Climate & Health Big Idea Grant: “Trauma Recovery in a Changing Climate: Impacts of Extreme Heat & Air Pollution on Biological Risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”! 🌟 More info ⤵️
https://t.co/16pzupc5Da

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

Excited to share we received a Climate & Health Big Idea Grant! Our team will examine how extreme heat and air pollution influence mental health following trauma, incorporating neuroimaging w/ community perspectives on exposures + practical mitigation strategies @DukePsychiatry

[Duke University School of Medicine @DukeMedSchool]

From extreme heat to community resilience, Duke’s latest Climate and Health Big Idea Grants support collaborative research addressing climate-driven health challenges.
https://t.co/ptPS5jZ7UB

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

Today we heard from other organizations and networks working at the intersection of climate and mental health, sparking exciting conversations and new collaborations! Excited for Day 2 and to launch the new African Exposome & Mental Health Network @DukeGHI @DukePsychiatry

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

What an incredible 1st day of the African Exposome and Mental Health Think Tank in Cape Town 🇿🇦 — supported by the Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health @IBROorg + @wellcometrust.

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

The best part of my job is getting to work with the amazing BEES Lab team🐝@DukePsychiatry

We had our end-of-year celebration last night to celebrate everyone’s hard work!

Congratulations to Milli Patel and Julia Simon for completing their Independent Research Study courses🎉

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

Forever grateful to work with the entire AURORA team, who supported my training in epigenetics and helped me become a more thoughtful and rigorous scientist. And of course, a special shout-out to Nathaniel G. Harnett - mentor on my F32 and senior author of this paper! ❤️

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

New paper from my NIMH F32 fellowship on risk, resilience, and biological aging after trauma! 🙌

https://t.co/Gz8TrNWay2

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

A one-quartile increase in neighborhood disadvantage was linked to ~0.75 years of accelerated biological aging (GrimAge). Even relatively small accelerations in epigenetic age may compound over the lifespan and contribute to meaningful differences in morbidity and mortality risk

[Marshall Burke @MarshallBBurke]

Really cool paper on the value of improved weather forecasts for reducing heat-related mortality.

[Paul Thompson @PTenigma]

Our tribute to the incredible Professor Dan Stein is now out in the South African Journal of Science [1]*. Dan’s scientific gifts, kindness, humility, and talents for bringing people together were unique.
🧠 If you have time today, watch any of these 3 enlightening thought-provoking lectures by Dan, +share them with your students:
1️⃣ Practising Psychiatry With Wisdom / Dan Stein, https://t.co/f7dqeO8fno
2️⃣ Problems of Living, https://t.co/2icPfTCxmH
3️⃣ Research Collaborations with Developing Countries: An African Perspective, https://t.co/iqNzr3Fscu
*[1] Thompson PM, Giovanni Salum, Ronald Kessler, Bernard Lerer, Lukoye Atwoli , John Joska , Valerie Mizrahi. Dan J. Stein (1962–2025): Towering global scholar, collaborator, colleague, mentor and friend. South African Journal of Science. 2026;122(3–4):Art. #25563. doi:10.17159/sajs.2026/25563. https://t.co/hsEmGlzu0U *shared here as the Creative Commons Attribution Licence allows us to share the PDF freely so long as we also include a link to the journal-hosted version
🧠See also The Lancet https://t.co/Iyr97434bA

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

Are you attending @SOBP at the end of this month?? Come check out the Neuroscience for Primetime symposium! I'll be presenting new work on the role of ambient air pollution on neurobiological risk for PTSD.

[Dr Sarah Hope Lincoln @DrSHLincoln]

It's post-bac RA season! 😀
As a reminder, feel free to add your email to this listserv I have for sending out post-bac RA jobs in psychology. No fee, gimmick. It's really just helping me procrastinate productively. 🙃
Also, if you're hiring, let me know!

https://t.co/WlzWnOZbEH

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

https://t.co/BHUwAtLuZR

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

1st paper from my @NIMHgov F32 fellowship 🎉 examining risk and resilience factors + biological aging after trauma (@ mentors Drs. Nate Harnett + Kerry Ressler). https://t.co/H7qLbgSzhO

Under certain conditions, resilience factors can have unexpected or even adverse effects....

[Kate Webb, PhD @_brainstorm_12]

Honored to visit/work with the University of Cape Town-based team 🇿🇦 (thanks to @HarvardChanSPH Rose Traveling Fellowship). My F32 collaborator + senior author, Dan Stein, passed before this paper was accepted. He was a brilliant scientist and kind mentor. He is deeply missed❤️