Dr. Sanders will be accepting applications for a graduate student for Fall 2026.

Dr. Sanders is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. She is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who received her PhD in Applied Biopsychology from the University of New Orleans in 2019. She then began her postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis working on the Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development (HCP-D). Shortly after, Dr. Sanders joined the NIMH-funded T32 Developmental Neuroscience & Child Psychopathology postdoctoral training program in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University under the direction of Drs. Deanna Barch and Joan Luby. She joined UGA in Fall 2024. 

Dr. Sanders' research aim is to elucidate the neural mechanisms by which socioeconomic disadvantage impacts a child's biobehavioral trajectory and risk for psychiatric illness, with the ultimate goal of informing public health policies targeting childhood adversity. To this end, she utilizes a range of neuroimaging modalities (e.g., resting-state functional connectivity, diffusion tensor imaging) alongside inflammatory biomarkers (e.g., cytokines) to understand the role of a child's environment in their neurodevelopment. She also has a keen interest in brain regions that are implicated in stress and cognition but are otherwise unexplored in relation to social and environmental disadvantage (e.g., the cerebellum).

Daylin Delgado is a first-generation Cuban-American woman from Miami Gardens, Florida. She double-majored in Psychology and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. While at Amherst, Daylin discovered her love for research, particularly in adolescent mental health, while working with Dr. Julia McQuade in the Peer Relationships Lab. 

After graduation in May 2022, Daylin worked for two years as a clinical research assistant on the Autistic Adults and other Stakeholders Engage Together - Suicide Prevention (AASET-SP) project at the UNC TEACCH Autism Program in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her primary research project focused on adapted interventions for addressing suicidality in autistic youth and young adults. In this role, Daylin gained invaluable experience in community-partnered research and clinical trials, and what it means to involve the communities we wish to help in the research process from start to finish. 

In the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Georgia, Daylin hopes to continue to improve and expand her research skills, and address the issues of mental health disparities in adolescents from underrepresented and underserved communities. 

Hudson Barthes is a 1st-year doctoral student from Navarre, FL. Hudson received his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Creative Writing from Florida State University, as well his Master's Degree in I/O Psychology from the University of West Florida. He is excited to be working with the COFFEE Lab at the University of Georgia at Athens. He is interested in researching how disability (especially Autism Spectrum Disorder), greater diversity, and artificial intelligence fit into the workplace. In his free time, Hudson enjoys reading and writing comics, the secular study of religion, and going on adventures with his wife.