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May 23

Hannah M. C. Schreier

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Dr. Hannah Schreier is an Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University. She is also affiliated with the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network.

Broadly speaking, she is interested in understanding how social influences at multiple levels, including within the family and the larger neighborhood environment, relate to important physiological outcomes, e.g. chronic inflammation, that have the potential to alter long-term health. Along these lines, Dr. Schreier is very interested in social contributors to existing health disparities and, although she has worked with individuals of all ages, she particularly enjoys working with adolescents. Going forward, she hopes to examine in more detail the possibilities of using social interventions, e.g. assignment to volunteering, to actively improve physiological health outcomes among individuals.

Dr. Schreier received her MA and PhD (both in Health Psychology) from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada and her BA from McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada. Before joining the BBH department at Penn State in the Fall of 2015 she completed a three-year postdoc in the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY.

Hannah Schreier CV


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Feb 23

Desa Rae Abrams

Desa Rae Abrams is a research technologist in Hannah Schreier’s lab. She graduated from University of Pittsburgh, Bradford with a B.S. in biology. Desa Rae has 16 years of clinical experience from working in a hospital laboratory and clinical informatics. She started working at Penn State in 2021 in the Flow Cytometry Core.


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Sep 16

Staff


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Sep 16

Jill Hadley

Jill Hadley is the Schreier laboratory’s Research Technologist and Laboratory Manager. Jill received her B.S. Biology degree from Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA), and began her Penn State career in 1988. Over her long career she has been involved in training students in laboratory techniques and helping them develop the ‘bench skills’ and critical thinking necessary for them to acquire their degrees (whether undergraduate, undergraduate honors, M.S., or Ph.D). She has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed journal articles, and collaborated on many research projects pertaining to animal and human health and well-being. She is excited to be able to bring her many years of research experience to her new position in Biobehavioral Health.

Jill Hadley CV


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Sep 16

Madison Jones

Madison Jones is a Research Technologist in Schreier’s laboratory. She received her B.S. Biology degree at Penn State University, Erie campus. As an undergraduate and post-baccalaureate, she worked on her independent research project, Induction of ER-stress Affects Myelin Sheath and Extracellular Vesicle Release in Oligodendrocytes. Madison’s research interests include disease pathology, neuroinflammation, and extracellular vesicles. In the future, she plans to continue her education through graduate school.


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Aug 16

Graduate Students

Dr. Schreier will not be taking new graduate students for the Fall of 2022.


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Aug 16

Aishwarya Ganguli

Aishwarya Ganguli is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health. She received her B.A in Psychology with a Public Health minor from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. She previously worked as a research coordinator for a school-based intervention study within a low SES population.

Aishwarya is interesting in studying how various early life adversities can have long term and significant effects on health. Her previous position has inculcated in her an interest in intersectionality research. She is particularly interested in identifying various pathways linking race, ethnicity, gender, and SES to health.


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Aug 16

Cate Givens

Cate Givens is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. She previously worked as the project coordinator for the Child Attention and Learning Lab study on Attention and Emotional Development. Before this, she was the lab coordinator at the Child Trauma Services Program lab at the University of Oklahoma Child Study Center studying how different treatment variables affect outcomes of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Cate is interested in studying how childhood maltreatment effects long-term health outcomes such as immune functioning and inflammation. She is particularly interested in possible protective factors against these adverse health outcomes.

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Jul 16

Lab Alumni


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Jun 16

Emily Jones

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Emily Jones is fifth year graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health. She completed undergraduate training in Psychology from the College of New Jersey, graduate training in Professional Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked as a child trauma therapist in Pittsburgh before coming to Penn State.

Emily broadly studies how chronic psychosocial stress (e.g., poverty, childhood adversity) gets “under the skin” to contribute to chronic disease risk. She is particularly interested in identifying individual and psychosocial protective resources that may buffer the extent to which chronic stress negatively impacts health, such as supportive interpersonal relationships and emotion regulation strategies. For her dissertation project, Emily is examining how being a first-generation college student and experiencing more hardship in childhood influences students’ psychosocial adjustment to college (e.g., sense of belonging) and their chronic disease risk (e.g., resting blood pressure, systemic inflammation, latent virus regulation). Study findings could potentially inform interventions that promote all aspects of students’ success and well-being during the transition to college.

 


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Jun 16

Emily Sellinger

Emily Sellinger works as a Research Technologist for the Schreier Lab. Emily received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Penn State University. As an undergraduate, she participated in research focused on predicting Lyme disease incidence. Her research interests include public health, disease ecology, and mathematical modeling. In time, Emily plans to continue her education through graduate school.


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Jun 16

Fernanda Lugo

Fernanda Lugo is an incoming first-year graduate student in the department of Biobehavioral health. She received a Bachelors in Biology with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas in El Paso in 2018. She previously worked in environmental chemistry, analyzing removal and filtration systems for Bisphenol A. Her current research interests are in the areas of public health and interventions, as well as the early detection of biomarkers as precursors to chronic disease. She is particularly interested in how environmental exposures and stress alike can lead to the development of autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases.


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Jun 16

Meghan Field

Meghan Field is a sophomore at The Pennsylvania State University majoring in Biobehavioral Health with minors in Biology and Psychology. After her time at Penn State, she plans to either attend Physician Assistant or Pharmacy school. Her research interests include how each individual’s life experiences mold their overall development in addition to discovering the relationships between our own environments and how we function on a daily basis.


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Jun 16

Haley Hammen

Haley is in her second year as an undergraduate student studying biobehavioral health. Her research interests include the relationship between biological function and environmental/social factors. After graduating, Haley plans to attend medical school to further her studies in healthcare.


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Apr 16

Abigail Dugo

Abby Dugo is a senior at The Pennsylvania State University studying Biobehavioral Health with minors in Neuroscience and Biology. After graduating from Penn State she plans to attend medical school and eventually enter a career in neurology doing both clinical and research-based work. She has a particular interest in neurodegenerative diseases and discovering pathological causes and developing pharmacological treatments for them.


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Apr 16

Kristy DiLoreto

Kristy DiLoreto is a senior at The Pennsylvania State University pursuing a major in Biobehavioral Health and a minor in Psychological Science. She is largely interested in how genetics and the environment contribute to one’s overall health, and is currently gravitating toward a future in genetic counseling because it will allow her to have a clinical aspect as well as a research and public health component in her career.


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Apr 16

Kalie Berman

Kalie is currently a junior at The Pennsylvania State University majoring in Biobhevaioral Health and minoring in Human Development and Family Studies. After graduating, she plans to go to graduate school and conduct more research. Eventually, Kalie hopes to get a job in research, specifically working in oncology and immunology.


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