معرفی
Shaunna L Clark, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Texas A&M University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding how biological and environmental factors influence psychiatric disorders, particularly alcohol use disorder, depression, anxiety, and childhood trauma exposure. Her work integrates epigenetics, statistics, and bioinformatics to identify biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment improvement.
Education: PhD in Advanced Quantitative Methods from UCLA (2010), MA from UCLA (2004), BA in Statistics from UC Berkeley (2003).
Research Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms in psychiatric disorders, DNA methylation biomarkers, comorbidity analysis between substance use and mental health, and the impact of environmental factors like neighborhood disadvantage on behavior. Her lab uses cutting-edge methods such as methylome-wide association studies and single-nucleus transcriptomics.
Current Projects include brain transcriptome analysis in alcohol use disorder, biomarker development for peripheral tissues, and longitudinal studies on methylation aging. She has contributed to over 80 publications since 2010, focusing on psychiatric epigenetics and biomarker discovery.
Her work bridges statistical methodology with clinical applications, emphasizing translational research to improve mental health outcomes.
