Postdocs/Fellows

Shelby is a 2^nd year PhD student in the Neurosciences Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in understanding how prenatal experiences influence early brain development and subsequent neurodevelopmental trajectories. She is very interested in understanding the biological mechanisms through which prenatal environments imprint on the developing brain and in attending to the ways that variability in early brain development maps onto variability in later behavior. Shelby received her B.S. in Psychology from Duke University in 2015, and her M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Texas at Dallas in 2019. Outside of the lab, she enjoys yoga, cooking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Ashley Nielsen is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Neurology investigating how early life adversity impacts brain maturation in infants and toddlers. Brain development is immensely complex. Ashley's work has been devoted to appreciating and interrogating the complex interactions across the brain the support the emergence of behavioral capacities throughout development and considering the influence of environment and experience on this maturation. Ashley studies the infant brain using functional connectivity MRI, multivariate machine learning, and other neuroimaging tools and statistical techniques in order to disentangle the complex relationship between the brain, behavior, and environment in early life. Ashley received her PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis.

Regina Triplett is a practicing child neurologist with a specialization in epilepsy and EEG. She sees children with epilepsy and related disorders in the hospital and in the clinic. In 2015, she completed her medical degree and a master’s degree in clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. She then came to Washington University in St. Louis for her child neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship training. She has been conducting research with the WUNDER lab since 2017. Her work is focused on using multimodal MRI and EEG techniques to study healthy and disrupted neurodevelopment in infants with a range of risk factors. She plans to use MRI and EEG to better understand how seizures and epilepsy develop and to design and run clinical trials to treat or prevent epilepsy.