Amanda Blue Zheutlin
Dept. of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520
amanda.zheutlin@yale.edu
EDUCATION & TRAINING
anticipated 2018
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology (Behavior, Genetics, & Neuroscience)
Adviser: Tyrone Cannon, Ph.D.
2014
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Sackler Summer Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Coordinator: B.J. Casey, Ph.D.
2011 – 2013
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow
Advisers: Joseph Callicott, M.D., Daniel Weinberger, M.D.
2011
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
B.Sc., Psychology (Honors), Neural & Behavioral Sciences
Adviser: Rebecca Compton, Ph.D.
2010
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
HONORS & AWARDS
2011
2010
Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology, Haverford College
KINSC Summer Research Grant, Haverford College ($3500)
PUBLICATIONS
Compton, RJ, Hofheimer, J, Kazinka, R, Levinson, A, & Zheutlin, A. (2013). Alpha suppression following
performance errors is correlated with depression, affect, and coping behaviors. Emotion, 13, 905-914.
Compton, RJ, Huber, E, Levinson, AR, & Zheutlin, A. (2012). Is “conflict adaptation” driven by conflict?
Behavioral and EEG evidence for the underappreciated role of congruent trials. Psychophysiology, 49, 583589.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREP
Ihne, JL, D’Ambrosio, E, Marenco, S, Ursini, G, Zheutlin, AB, Blasi, G, Spencer, BE, Romano, R,
Hochheiser, J, Reifman, A, Sturm, J, Berman, KF, Bertolino, A, Weinberger, DR, Callicott, JH. (under
review). Urban environment during childhood interacts with COMT to influence adult prefrontal
information processing efficiency. Nature Neuroscience.
Zheutlin, AB, Fortgang, RG, Sabb, FW, Bilder, RM, Freimer, N, London, ED, Hultman, CM, Johansson, V,
Kizling, I, Haut, KM, Wang, Z, Wang, Z, Purcell, SM, Bergen, SE, & Cannon, TD. (in prep). Common
variants for schizophrenia ascertained through genome-wide association with a cognitive
endophenotype.
Callicott, JH, Straub, RE, Nixon, DC, Zheutlin, AB, Prust, MJ, Vakkalanka, RK, et al. (in prep). Epistatic
interaction between COMT and GAD1 on prefrontal function during working memory.
POSTERS & PRESENTATIONS
Zheutlin, AB, Hultman, CM, Purcell, SM, & Cannon, TD. (2014, September). Common genetic variants
predict memory and diagnostic status in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Research in Psychopathology, Evanston, IL.
Zheutlin, AB, Hultman, CM, Wang, K, Purcell, SM, & Cannon, TD. (2014, May). Relative contributions of
common and rare genetic variation for risk in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the 69th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biology Psychiatry, New York, NY.
Callicott, JH, Zheutlin, AB, Dickinson, D, Zhang, F, Straub, RE, Kolachana, B, et al. (2012, October).
Propensity score as a means for studying the combined impact of multiple risk genes for schizophrenia using
imaging genetics. Nanosymposium presented by first author at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
Zheutlin, AB, Callicott, JH, Yates, WD, White, MG, Mattay, VS, Chen, Q, et al. (2012, October). ARC risk
predicts PFC function, hippocampal activation, and PFC-hippocampal connectivity in an encoding and
retrieval memory task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New
Orleans, LA.
Zheutlin, AB, Dickinson, D, Zhang, F, Straub, RE, Feng, N, Kolachana, B, et al. (2012, May). Making sense
of GWAS data: Propensity scores and their relation to working memory and schizophrenia. Poster presented
at the NIH Spring Research Festival, Bethesda, MD.
Zheutlin, AB, Callicott, JH, Yates, WD, White, MG, Mattay, VS, Chen, Q, et al. (2012, April). ARC
genotype predicts PFC efficiency and connectivity between PFC and hippocampus. Poster presented at the 67th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA.
Compton, RJ, Hofheimer, J, Kazinka, R, Levinson, A, & Zheutlin, A. (2012, April). Post-error alpha
suppression predicts anhedonic depression and reduced daily reports of positive emotion and active coping.
Poster presented by first author at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,
Chicago, IL.
Zheutlin, AB, Joo, S, & Murray, S. (2010, September). The surround suppression effect and perception of
orientation. Poster presented at the Undergraduate Science Research Symposium supported by the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Haverford, PA.
TEACHING
Fall 2014
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Clinical Neuroscience, Yale University
SERVICE
2014 – 2015
2014
2013 – present
Coordinator, Current Works in Behavior, Genetics, & Neuroscience, Yale University
Student Chair, Graduate Recruitment, Yale University
Neuroscience Area Organizer, Colloquium Committee, Yale University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP)
Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP)
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)