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Timothy Powell

Timothy Powell

Senior lecturer, King's College London

Senior lecturer, King's College London I am a Senior Lecturer and MRC New Investigator at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Research Centre. My research focuses on identifying molecular mechanisms underlying risk for psychiatric disorders and higher rates of age-related pathology. My lab adopts multidisciplinary approaches to research, which include: telomere quantification, inflammatory cytokine quantification, cellular models, RNA sequencing analyses and genetic analyses.

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Tamar Pincus

Tamar Pincus

Professor in Health Psychology and Dean, University of Southampton

Professor in Health Psychology and Dean, University of Southampton A member of the University Executive Board, Tamar has executive management responsibility for the Faculty and leads on the delivery of the strategic priorities. Her research focuses on investigating psychological aspects of pain, and especially chronic pain. Prof Pincus' research focuses on investigating psychological aspects of pain, and especially chronic pain. This has included investigations of cognitive biases in pain patients, the psychological predictors for poor outcome in low back pain, and the study of clinicians’ beliefs and behaviours and their effect on patients with pain, especially in reference to effective reassurance and return to work. Throughout she has collaborated closely with researchers from many disciplines, including doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors and clinical psychologists, from a multitude of institutions, in the UK and internationally. Her current research is focused on delivering effective reassurance to patients in primary care, and studying the use of technology to deliver rehabilitation.

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Tanya Dewey

Tanya Dewey

Assistant Professor, Biology, Colorado State University

Assistant Professor, Biology, Colorado State University Tanya Dewey is an assistant professor of biology and associate chair of undergraduate studies at Colorado State University. She has a diverse research interests, including education research and primary research on the impact of accurate species delimitation on conservation and management issues. She studies North American bats, including the impact of white-nose syndrome, invasive fungal disease that is devastating bat populations in eastern North America. She has also been involved in spatial ecology research on Myotis to try to understand their susceptibility to white nose syndrome. Dewey also is the director of the Animal Diversity Web and is particularly interested in the impact of authentic, data-driven inquiries on student engagement and learning gains in biology classrooms. As a QUBES Mentor, she works with faculty across the United States to improve integration of quantitative and data-driven skills into undergraduate classrooms. She works with dozens of undergraduate educators every year to provide and assess the value of writing-in-the-discipline experiences in natural history.

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