Suzanne obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2008, supported for three years by a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship. She received dual bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology from Florida State University. She completed an APA-accredited predoctoral clinical psychology internship at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center during 2007-2008 and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Department of Psychology, first as the NU project director of the Youth Emotion Project (2008 to 2010), and next as an NIH/NIMH NRSA postdoctoral research fellow (2010 to 2013). She is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. As a graduate student, Suzanne was interested in behaviors mediated by the brain’s serotonin system. For her dissertation project, she directed an ambitious tryptophan depletion study to investigate serotonergic correlates of eating disordered behavior in healthy individuals and in females with anorexia nervosa. Her current work focuses on the etiology of mood disorders, using naturalistic life stress and lab-induced stress to study the main effects of stress and gene-environment interactions on depression and related outcomes.

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