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

Joined January 2020
Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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: uclastresslab.org/pubs/Menge… Video overview at: youtu.be/GoH1RH6_xm4
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Now published, the protocol paper for our massive #multiomics-based precision medicine study on #stress, #health & #resilience. Read the article at: tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/… @UCLAHealth @UCLASemel @dgsomucla @UCLAHealthNews @SnyderShot @atulbutte @StanfordMed @UCSFMedicine
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Now published, our new article on the molecular basis of risk for #depression in adolescent #females. Check it out at: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @UCLAHealth @UCLASemelFriend @UCLASemel @UCLAHealthNews
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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: lnkd.in/gHb7EPY3
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po…
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… 2/14
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📢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.
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
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: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Mark your calendars for @srp_science 2024! Our precision psychopathology treatment symposia will be Sunday morning (with @PsychdOnScience Jha Berwain and @GeorgeSlavich )
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I search for PhD candidates @JagiellonskiUni Project on #sexhormones #menstrualcycle #stress, #reproductivehealth & life satisfaction (PL or ENG). Start: Oct 2024, 3700 - 5700 PLN/month. Apply by 26.07.24. More info: shorturl.at/pKJdT or DM [email protected]
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Excited to attend @PsychScience for this first time and present my poster “Body Awareness Moderates the Efficacy of a Precision Stress Management Intervention” tomorrow (Friday 5/24) at 10:30am poster session II-88 @UCLAStressLab #aps24sf
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Now online, our new article titled "Multi-omics in #stress and #health research: Study designs that will drive the field forward." Short summary: the future of biomedical #research on human #health is here! Led by @PsychdOnScience w/@SnyderShot Online at tinyurl.com/stressomics
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Now published, "Human #immune & #metabolic biomarker levels, & stress-biomarker associations, differ by season: Implications for #biomedical #health research"! We can no longer ignore assessment timing for clinical & research biomarkers. Full article at: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
PNI twitter: I need to store some DBS samples for a few months for cytokine assays. For logistical reasons, I need a new small/midsize freezer. I could spend $4-6k on a -20/-30 freezer from thermo fisher. Or, I could spend ~$1k on a commercial freezer w/similar specs. Advice?
7%Buy lab grade
18%Buy commercial
7%Neither (need -80)
68%Just see results
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Join @NASEM Health and Medicine Division Apr 29-30 for a hybrid public workshop to identify, define, and improve female mental health care across the lifespan. Learn more and register here: ow.ly/jinN50QzorV #MentalHealthForum #WomensHealth #HealthEquity #HealthDisparities
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Now published, our article on "Using Ecological Momentary Assessments to Study How Daily Fluctuations in Psychological States Impact #Stress, #WellBeing, and #Health," led by my amazing post-doc, @PsychdOnScience, w/@SnyderShot @stanford. Check it out at: lnkd.in/gG-7Abcs
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Over the MOON- our @UCLAStressLab *STAR* project coordinator, Lauren Kim, won a @PsychScience Emerging Scholar Award for her multiverse analysis of ACE modeling strategies in predicting internalizing symptoms using my F32 data. She's on the PhD market folx! Remember the name 👑
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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD retweeted
Calling all students seeking research experience in evolutionary social science! In @HumBehEvoSoc's new ADAPT Program, you'll work w a mentor on a research project in 2024-25. Get $1.2k stipend + up to $3k to attend/present at HBES2025! Apply hbes.com/the-adapt-mission/ by 6/1!
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