Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Post-doc series April 4, 2024: Kathryn Manning & Jordan Chad

Child brain structural patterns predict compromised mental health trajectories

Bio:
Kathryn Manning is a postdoctoral fellow in the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute at the University of Calgary with Dr. Catherine Lebel. She obtained her MSc and PhD in Medical Biophysics at Western University under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Menon. Her research is focused on applying data-driven multimodal MRI analyses to understand healthy and compromised brain development. She is currently working on identifying biomarkers in childhood that predict mental health outcomes and quantifying neuroplastic changes after targeted interventions. In her free time she enjoys playing outside with her one year old daughter and pretending to be a singer-songwriter with her first album titled “Hiding in Leaves”.