Society memberships:
Society for psychophysiological research (SPR)
Vision Sciences society (VSS)
society for neuroscience (sfn)
American psychosocial oncology society (apos)
Workshops, Poster presentations, Talks:
2023 Mindfulness Mechanisms & Methods Meeting (M4) Conference
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Oct 5th – 6th, 2023
Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 63rd Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA, September 27th - October 1st, 2023
2022 NSF Virtual Grants Conference, Fall 2022
Virtual Meeting, Nov 14-17th, 2022
Sessions attended: Proposal preparation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
PTSD and the Brain, Special Topics seminar
Eckerd College Winter Term, invited guest lecturers during January 24-28th, 2022
§ Dr. Sara Hofmann, Clinical Psychologist (PTSD), Eckerd College
§ Dr. Lisa McTeague, Clinical Psychologist (PTSD) and Researcher, MUSC
§ Southeastern Guide Dogs, Teaching Demo with Service Dogs trained for Veterans with PTSD
2020 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
Virtual Meeting, October 5-9th, 2020
Poster (1st author, accepted): ‘Interactions of transient and oscillatory evoked potentials during visual search: revisiting the classical superposition theory with steady state visual evoked potentials (ssVEPs)’
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Webinar, July 29th, 2020
COVID-19, the Brain, and Mental Health: Weighing the Direct and Indirect Effects (attended)
New Knowledge & Innovation Conference, 2020 SMHCS (Sarasota Memorial Health Care System), hosted by Sarasota Memorial Hospital –
Converted to virtual due to COVID-19 Pandemic; Sarasota, FL, May 1st, 2020
Poster (3rd author): ‘A pilot study evaluating the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on cardiovascular functioning among breast cancer survivors (BCS)’
American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS), 17th Annual Meeting
Portland, OR, March 11-13th, 2020 – Converted to virtual due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Poster (3rd author): ‘A pilot study evaluating the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on cardiovascular functioning among breast cancer survivors (BCS)’
JMP Pro Workshop, hosted by the USF Graduate and Professional Student Council (attended)
Tampa, FL, January 31st, 2020
2019 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 59th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 25-29, 2019
Symposium – Faces of the Future Flash Talk: ‘Neuronal orientation tuning under changing threat contingencies: Oscillatory specificity of safety learning during fear generalization’
USF Postdoctoral Research Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, September 20th, 2019
Research Lightning Talk: ‘To fear or not to fear: safety learning in human visual cortex’
2018 Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 18th Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, May 18th-23rd, 2018
Poster (5th author): ‘Oscillatory dynamics in widespread cortical networks during feature-based attention: coupling across and between frequencies.’
2017 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 56th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, September 21-25, 2017
Poster (2nd author): ‘Tagging the neurophysiological mechanisms of competing spatially overlapping visual stimuli using simultaneously recorded electrocortical and hemodynamic signals’
Poster (2nd author): ‘The neural signature of viewing dynamic emotional faces: complementary contributions of evoked versus induced oscillatory brain activity’
Poster (5th author): ‘Selective attention to targets is accompanied by cortical synchrony in the theta-band and increases in gamma power in frontal and temporal regions’
2016 Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 46th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 12th – 16th, 2016
Dynamic Poster (1st author): ‘Deconstructing expectancy in human aversive learning: evidence from visuocortical, physiological and behavioural dynamics’
2015 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 55th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 30th – October 4th, 2015
Poster (1st author): ‘Visuocortical changes during discriminant aversive conditioning: effects of inter-individual differences in contingency awareness and autonomic engagement’
Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 15th Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, May 15-20th, 2015
Poster (1st author): ‘Visuocortical changes during discriminant aversive conditioning: effects of inter-individual differences in contingency awareness and autonomic engagement’
2014 Florida Genetics 2014 Symposium, University of Florida Cancer & Genetics Research Complex, Gainesville, FL, October 29-30th, 2014
Poster (1st author): ‘The role of the COMT val158met polymorphism in mediating aversive learning in visual cortex and concurrent heart rate responding’
Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 54th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 10-14th, 2014
Poster (1st author): ‘The role of the COMT val158met polymorphism in mediating aversive learning in visual cortex and concurrent heart rate responding’
Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 14th Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, May 16-21st, 2014
Poster (1st author): ‘Fear memories in visual cortex: inter-individual differences related to reflex physiology and genetic variants’
Poster (2nd author): ‘Characterizing the in-vivo neurophysiology of visual aversive conditioning using concurrent EEG-fMRI recordings’
2013 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 53rd Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, October 2-6th, 2013
Poster (1st author): ‘Fear memories in visual cortex: inter-individual differences related to reflex physiology and genetic variants’
Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 3rd Annual North Central Florida Chapter, Gainesville, FL, March 14th, 2013
Poster (1st author): ‘Fear memories in visual cortex: inter-individual differences and reflex physiology
2012 Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), 52nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 19-23rd, 2012
Poster (1st author): ‘Oscillatory evoked dynamics in the face processing network: effects of presentation rate and face inversion’
Poster (2nd author): ‘Visuocortical mechanisms of threat detection during fear learning: maximizing generalization or discrimination?’
2011 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography (ECoG), Office of Continuing Medical Education of Albany Medical
College, Washington, DC, November 10-11th, 2011