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Duke University School of Med
Joined August 2020
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Kate Webb, PhD retweeted
@OlieMatshabane spoke at #WCPG2026 🏴 on exploring the ethical challenges and opportunities in neuropsychiatric genomics research community engagement in Africa, with a focus on the perspectives of African researchers 👏🏽😊👏🏽
I’m incredibly proud of Milli Patel, who won 1st place in the Duke Psychiatry Research Day poster competition!
The BEES Lab Hive had a great time learning about the research happening across the department and connecting with everyone. Thanks @DukePsychiatry!
New paper from the AURORA Study! In this study of recent trauma survivors, we examined whether air pollution exposure helps explain associations between residential segregation, PTSD symptoms, and hippocampal features.
nature.com/articles/s41398-0…
We're hiring! 🐝 Come join the hive! 🐝 The BEES lab at @DukePsychiatry is looking for a full-time post-bac research assistant.
Learn more about the lab: lnkd.in/eHPxSB5v
And apply here: lnkd.in/eaF6GbdH
Kate Webb, PhD retweeted
Congratulations to Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Kate Webb on receiving a Duke Climate & Health Big Idea Grant: “Trauma Recovery in a Changing Climate: Impacts of Extreme Heat & Air Pollution on Biological Risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”! 🌟 More info ⤵️
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ALT Kate Webb presenting at climate symposium
Excited to share we received a Climate & Health Big Idea Grant! Our team will examine how extreme heat and air pollution influence mental health following trauma, incorporating neuroimaging w/ community perspectives on exposures + practical mitigation strategies @DukePsychiatry
From extreme heat to community resilience, Duke’s latest Climate and Health Big Idea Grants support collaborative research addressing climate-driven health challenges.
medschool.duke.edu/news/heat…
What an incredible 1st day of the African Exposome and Mental Health Think Tank in Cape Town 🇿🇦 — supported by the Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health @IBROorg + @wellcometrust.
Today we heard from other organizations and networks working at the intersection of climate and mental health, sparking exciting conversations and new collaborations! Excited for Day 2 and to launch the new African Exposome & Mental Health Network @DukeGHI @DukePsychiatry
The best part of my job is getting to work with the amazing BEES Lab team🐝@DukePsychiatry
We had our end-of-year celebration last night to celebrate everyone’s hard work!
Congratulations to Milli Patel and Julia Simon for completing their Independent Research Study courses🎉
New paper from my NIMH F32 fellowship on risk, resilience, and biological aging after trauma! 🙌
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
A one-quartile increase in neighborhood disadvantage was linked to ~0.75 years of accelerated biological aging (GrimAge). Even relatively small accelerations in epigenetic age may compound over the lifespan and contribute to meaningful differences in morbidity and mortality risk
Kate Webb, PhD retweeted
Really cool paper on the value of improved weather forecasts for reducing heat-related mortality.
Kate Webb, PhD retweeted
Our tribute to the incredible Professor Dan Stein is now out in the South African Journal of Science [1]*. Dan’s scientific gifts, kindness, humility, and talents for bringing people together were unique.
🧠 If you have time today, watch any of these 3 enlightening thought-provoking lectures by Dan, +share them with your students:
1️⃣ Practising Psychiatry With Wisdom / Dan Stein, youtube.com/watch?v=8TnpjgBB…
2️⃣ Problems of Living, youtube.com/watch?v=f5DEBry0…
3️⃣ Research Collaborations with Developing Countries: An African Perspective, youtube.com/watch?v=-0tfR8wF…
*[1] Thompson PM, Giovanni Salum, Ronald Kessler, Bernard Lerer, Lukoye Atwoli , John Joska , Valerie Mizrahi. Dan J. Stein (1962–2025): Towering global scholar, collaborator, colleague, mentor and friend. South African Journal of Science. 2026;122(3–4):Art. #25563. doi:10.17159/sajs.2026/25563. sajs.co.za/index.php/sajs/en… *shared here as the Creative Commons Attribution Licence allows us to share the PDF freely so long as we also include a link to the journal-hosted version
🧠See also The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Are you attending @SOBP at the end of this month?? Come check out the Neuroscience for Primetime symposium! I'll be presenting new work on the role of ambient air pollution on neurobiological risk for PTSD.
Kate Webb, PhD retweeted
It's post-bac RA season! 😀
As a reminder, feel free to add your email to this listserv I have for sending out post-bac RA jobs in psychology. No fee, gimmick. It's really just helping me procrastinate productively. 🙃
Also, if you're hiring, let me know!
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1st paper from my @NIMHgov F32 fellowship 🎉 examining risk and resilience factors + biological aging after trauma (@ mentors Drs. Nate Harnett + Kerry Ressler). reporter.nih.gov/search/is52…
Under certain conditions, resilience factors can have unexpected or even adverse effects....
Honored to visit/work with the University of Cape Town-based team 🇿🇦 (thanks to @HarvardChanSPH Rose Traveling Fellowship). My F32 collaborator + senior author, Dan Stein, passed before this paper was accepted. He was a brilliant scientist and kind mentor. He is deeply missed❤️