Fran Querdasi

PhD student @BABLab_UCLA | studying how experiences shape health & development | she/her 🏳️‍🌈🥄

[Jennifer Somers @SomersJenn]

Excited to share that the validation paper for our microcoding system (microFIMS) is out now in Developmental Psychology! Our coding manual and training materials (using open source software) can be found our lab website: https://t.co/Om7Ly0H176

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

This is exciting because it suggests that the early life gut microbiome might shape functional brain development in middle childhood in ways that are relevant for emergence of anxiety and depression symptoms when children enter school age. Lots of directions for follow-up! 🥳

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

🚨preprint alert🚨
Excited to share new work on developmental links between the microbiome-gut-brain axis and internalizing symptoms with @Dr_BCallaghan, @JessicaUy_PhD, Jen Labus, and the GUSTO study team 🥳 (1/n)
https://t.co/dqbr0UAPOD (note: has not yet been peer-reviewed)

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

In sum, this study identifies prospective links between gut microbiome composition, brain functional connectivity networks, and internalizing (depression and anxiety) symptoms across early to middle childhood.

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

@NGancz YAYY! Congrats!! 🥳🤩

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

Yayy! I've so much fun working on this project! Congrats to our paper leader @ShibaEsfand 🥳. Stay tuned for more results coming soon from the Mind, Brain, and Body Study 😀

[Shiba Esfand @ShibaEsfand]

🧠My first-first author paper of grad school is officially hot off the press! 🧠
We detail a novel approach for assessing the effects of caregiving-related #adversity (e.g., maltreatment) on the #brain #gut #immune axis and #internalzing symptoms in youth
https://t.co/ixOIYmEHlk

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

Remember to get your booster! 📈 good reminder that side effects may be milder than you expect

[Shirley B. Wang @ShirleyBWang]

Just got my covid booster yesterday and I was *dreading* it because I usually have terrible side effects, but I ended up being totally fine this year. Pleasantly surprised!

Anyway, this is a 📢 PSA 📢 that covid still exists, and please get your booster!!

[Shiba Esfand @ShibaEsfand]

So excited to share my first first-author paper published in Journal of Affective Disorders! We developed and validated a novel online version of the probabilistic reward task in a community sample of adults with self-reported MDD. https://t.co/8hh2vNSCbz

[Alexandra (Allie) D. W. Sullivan, PhD @AllieDWSullivan]

@SomersJenn bringing the house down launching the closing session of @devpsybio #isdp2024

[Paul W. Savoca @pw_savoca]

‼️Novel Mechanistic Framework for Peripartum Depression‼️

In our new perspective article we highlight the role of #interoception in #pregnancy related #depression.

https://t.co/gJWdX6n0qm

Summary Below 🧵

[Dr. Bridget Callaghan @Dr_BCallaghan]

@BABLab_UCLA student @ShibaEsfand rocking the #ISDP2024 poster session tonight with her proposed hypothesis driven study looking at striatal function, mental health, and gut microbiome in kids.

[Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi]

@TiffanyCheingHo Aww thanks, Tiffany! ☺️

[Kristen A Chu @KristenAChu]

If you’re at #ISDP come stop by my poster this evening to see our results investigating latent profiles of early life adversity and internalizing symptoms in young adults! @ADRC_UCLA

[Paul W. Savoca @pw_savoca]

If you’re at #ISDP come stop by my poster this evening to see our results investigating the relationship between features of the gut-microbiome and cortical thickness of insula subregions in children. #interoception

[Shiba Esfand @ShibaEsfand]

At #ISDP2024 ? Be sure to drop by my poster (#86) to hear me talk about the links between the gut microbiome, striatal functioning and internalizing symptoms in kids! @devpsybio @BABLab_UCLA