Ekomobong Eyoh
Ekomobong Eyoh is a third year Ph.D. student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. Broadly, she is interested in studying the heterogeneity inherent in psychopathology and social cognition. More specifically, she is interested in studying autism early identification, heterogeneity in developmental disorders and other psychopathological profiles, and social cognition and interactions, including sibling relationships, in typical and atypical populations. Prior to graduate school at ICD, Ekom received a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in 2016 and a M.P.H. from the University of Miami in 2019. Later, she worked as a research coordinator for a year and a half in the Laboratory of Affective Sensory Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center studying sensory differences in autism.
Angelina Jones
Angelina Jones is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the Institute of Child Development. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from The University of Alabama and worked as a research assistant in the Cognition and Intellectual Disability Lab. Later, she worked as a clinical research coordinator with the Neurobehavioral Treatment Discovery Team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she coordinated several clinical research studies using multi-method assessment batteries with the overarching aim to create personalized treatments in Fragile X Syndrome. Her current research interests are investigating neuropsychological profiles and biomarkers of cognitive deficits during early childhood among children with neurodevelopmental disorders, aiming to contribute to the advancement of treatment development in this field.
Sally Stoyell
Sally Stoyell is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. She is interested in studying the structural and physiological processes behind infant memory and cognitive development in both typically and atypically developing populations. Prior to joining the CNS Lab, Sally received her BS from Cornell University where she did her undergraduate thesis in a lab looking at EEG and behavioral measures of infant memory as related to iron status. Most recently she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Chu Lab studying the brain processes and structure behind seizures and cognitive dysfunction in infantile and childhood epilepsies
Sanju Koirala
Sanju is a second year PhD student in the developmental psychology track at the Institute of Child Development (ICD). She is interested in characterizing the development of brain-behavior associations in the early years of life and examining how it differs in various neurodevelopmental disorders and delays. Prior to joining ICD, she worked as a Simons Fellow in Computational Neuroscience at Emory University’s Marcus Autism Center where she examined how early trajectories of social visual engagement predicts later language outcome in infants at low and high-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. She received her B.A. in neuroscience from Hamilton College in 2019.
Beatrice Ojuri
Beatrice (Bea) Ojuri is a first-year PhD student on the Developmental Psychopathology
and Clinical Science track in the Institute of Child Development (ICD). She is broadly interested
in examining shared and distinct behavioral and neurobiological traits in children with ASD and
ADHD as well as early neural predictors within those disorders that contribute to emerging
psychopathology. Prior to joining ICD, Bea earned her B.S. in psychology from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst in 2022. Later, as a research coordinator and assistant In the Center
for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, she
investigated behavioral, neuropsychological, motor, and neurobiological profiles of children and
adolescents with ASD, ADHD, and reading disorders.
