Category: Conference/Meeting

INS Conference 2025

We are very proud of our three researchers who presented their work at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) meeting this February! Paula Argueta (program coordinator; left) presented her poster “Traits of depression in autistic children: the role of inhibitory control and social cognition”. McKayla Kurtz (graduate student; middle) presented her poster “The role of the executive control network in social functioning in autism”. Meagan Beckerson (graduate student; right) presented her poster “The relationship between executive functioning, brain connectivity, and externalizing behaviors in childhood”. Congrats to all three!

Undergrad Presents at TCAC 2024

Sep 12, 2024. Joseph Kannala presents his research poster at the Thompson Center Autism Conference.

We are very proud of our undergraduate researcher Joseph Kannala and his poster presentation at the Thompson Center Autism Conference! Joseph is an undergraduate researcher from St. Louis University who collaborated with the CBrA lab over the summer on a novel research project. He used data from our lab’s MISLEAD study to assess how higher cognitive functions impact deception detection in neurodiverse young adults. Congrats Joseph!

NCUR 2024

Congratulations to Caroline Vanderburgh for her amazing poster presentation at the National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2024 meeting! Caroline’s poster examined thalamo-cortical functional connectivity in autism.

MoLA 2024

The CBrA Lab was thrilled to have our program coordinator, Paula Argueta, present a poster at the Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) 2024 conference! Paula worked with co-coordinator Lucas Martin and postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Valles-Capetillo on the poster titled “The cognitive and neural correlates of reading comprehension in autistic and neurotypical children”. The poster used data from our lab’s BrainREAD study and looked at the relationship between various cognitive abilities, brain areas, and reading performance.

2024 Alabama Autism Conference

Graduate Researcher Meagan Beckerson (left) and Project Coordinator Lucas Martin (right) at the CBrA Lab booth at the 2024 Alabama Autism Conference. Feb 23, 2024.

On Friday, February 23, Project Coordinator Lucas Martin and Graduate Researcher Meagan Beckerson attended the 2024 Alabama Autism Conference at the Bryant Conference Center at the University of Alabama. They represented the CBrA Lab at their booth, informing clinicians, researchers, caretakers, and other parties about the lab’s research and opportunities for participation. Many talented and respected speakers presented at the conference, providing insights into the current state of Autism research, care, and community. We look forward to the next AAC in 2025!