Summer Mengelkoch, PhD

Postdoc @UCLA📚 Visiting postdoctoral scholar @Stanford 🧬 Science junkie 🔬 Dog mom 🐾 I study stress, health, & birth control use from an evo perspective

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

Ok I finally got my favorite paper published: https://t.co/pbWG3ur0OS

Here’s why I think it’s cool (a thread): we looked at relationships between facial attractiveness ratings and immune function, using multiple in vitro immune challenge assays

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

@CostelloWilliam I might exclusively date men with golden retriever energy… more of a type than a good or bad. Everything has context.

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

Excited to see friends in Denver for #spsp2025 🔬📚

[Katie @katiefirestone]

Our awesome research assistant @afshar_kimya is attending her first conference #SPSP25 this week! Check out what we've been working on at the @UCLAStressLab @CALSTARNetwork

Thur, 9-10:15 Exhibit Hall D (Health Pre Conference)

Fri, 12:30 pm — Poster Session C Exhibit Hall D

[George Slavich @GeorgeSlavich]

Did you know that hormonal contraceptives can affect your #immune system & #health⁉️

In this new review, @PsychdOnScience, Kimya Afshar, & I examine how hormonal contraceptives impact biology and health. See: https://t.co/Q4zffhmtxl

Video overview at: https://t.co/meLEYemkFv

[George Slavich @GeorgeSlavich]

Now published, the protocol paper for our massive #multiomics-based precision medicine study on #stress, #health & #resilience. Read the article at: https://t.co/1RSnYng2ia

@UCLAHealth @UCLASemel @dgsomucla @UCLAHealthNews @SnyderShot @atulbutte @StanfordMed @UCSFMedicine

[George Slavich @GeorgeSlavich]

Now published, our new article on the molecular basis of risk for #depression in adolescent #females. Check it out at: https://t.co/XyZI7iVFxB

@UCLAHealth @UCLASemelFriend @UCLASemel @UCLAHealthNews

[CAL STAR Network @CALSTARNetwork]

Congratulations to our STAR researchers @PsychdOnScience and @MathildaNS1220 for their amazing achievements this year. We are incredibly proud of their contributions to stress and resilience research 🥳. @UCLAStressLab

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

So honored to have been selected to receive the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research today! 🥰

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

@JaimieKrems https://t.co/kfLRRJ6B4b reach out to this group!

[George Slavich @GeorgeSlavich]

Curious about how #stress affects #health? Listen to (and please share!) my recent podcast episode on the topic with the amazing @ryanlinnbrown ! Available at the link below and wherever you access podcasts on the interweb! ❤️ 🙏

Listen here: https://t.co/5qevrk0Sor

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

@dp_moriarity I bet this scale performs so well in ADHD pops though 🤣

[Joshua M. Tybur @joshtybur]

I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! https://t.co/rtzdKeUlv0

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

We are especially recruiting ER residents with anxiety 👀

[CAL STAR Network @CALSTARNetwork]

We are recruiting healthcare workers to participate in our study! Together, we seek a novel therapeutic solution to alleviate anxiety symptoms and burnout in our valuable healthcare workers.

Click on the link to learn more/participate!

https://t.co/lWprE6bbwm

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

This theory is from an article in @healthpsychrev which uses the primary goal of the human brain as the basis for specifying the social-environmental situations to which these systems should respond most strongly to maximize success. https://t.co/34GWnLsaf7 2/14

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

@ed_hagen Commodification

[Summer Mengelkoch, PhD @PsychdOnScience]

@RandomMutations That is exactly what I’d recommend!

[Emily G. Jacobs 🦋 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @emilyjacobs]

📢Mark your calendars and help us spread the word for the next speaker in the Bowers WBHI Seminar Series! Prof. Adrienne Beltz joins us from @UMich on Monday, Sept 9 at 8am PST/11am EST to discuss her rigorous body of work on hormonal contraceptives.

[UArk Psychology @UArkPsych]

Pre-proof available online for new research from a team including @uarkfulbright faculty Drs. Stacey Makhanova & Grant Shields (@grantsshields), along with @uarkgsie students Mikayla Tolliver (@TolliverMikayla) & Colton Hunter: https://t.co/6ORt8Z9dTp

[Daniel P. Moriarity @dp_moriarity]

Mark your calendars for @srp_science 2024!

Our precision psychopathology treatment symposia will be Sunday morning (with @PsychdOnScience Jha Berwain and @GeorgeSlavich )