Binghamton Mood Disorders Institute Personnel:

Director: Brandon E. Gibb, Ph.D., director of the Binghamton Mood Disorders Institute, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Temple University in 2003. He completed his predoctoral clinical training at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and his predoctoral internship at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium. Dr. Gibb specializes in evaluating cognitive vulnerability-stress theories of depression in children and adults. More specifically, he is interested in environmental and genetic factors contributing to the development and expression of different forms of cognitive vulnerability to depression (e.g., biases in attention, interpretation, and memory). He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy and Research. He is a member of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy), Society for Research in Child Development, Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, American Association of Suicidology, International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Society for Research in Psychopathology, and Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Gibb joined the psychology faculty at Binghamton University in September of 2003 and established the Binghamton Mood Disorders Institute in 2004.

	Ashley Johnson received her B.S. in neurobiology from University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and her M.S. from Binghamton University in 2008. She joined the BMDI as a graduate student in the Summer of 2008. She is currently completing her internship at Brown University.
	Lindsey Stone received her B.S. in psychology from University of South Carolina in 2006. She joined the BMDI as a graduate student in the Fall of 2007 and earned an M.S. from Binghamton University in 2009. She is currently completing her dissertation, supported by a NIMH funded F31 grant, examining peer relationships, cognitive vulnerabilities, and gender differences in depression risk in adolescents.
	Andrea Hanley received her B.A. in psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2006. She joined the BMDI as a graduate student in the Fall of 2009 and earned an M.S. from Binghamton University in 2011. Andrea’s research interests focus on depression, suicidality, and nonsuicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviors. More specifically, she is interested in how the onset and course of major depressive disorder causes children and adolescents to engage in suicidal and NSSI behaviors.
	Katie Burkhouse received her B.S. in psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008, and she joined the BMDI as a graduate student in the Fall of 2010. Her research interests focus on the neurobehavioral aspects of emotion including emotional processing, pupillary reactivity, and genetics, and their relation to depression.
	Jimmy Choi received his B.A. in psychology from Temple University. He joined the BMDI as a graduate student in the Fall of 2011. His primary research interests examine the transactional relation between stress and depression, and gene-environment interactions in depression.
	Mary Woody received her B.S. in psychology from the University of Miami in 2011, and she joined the BMDI as a graduate student during Fall 2011.  Her research interests include the role of rumination in the prediction and maintenance of depression and biological markers of stress, such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
	Sydney Meadows received her B.A. in psychology from Binghamton University in 2010. She joined the lab as MIMIC project coordinator in the Summer of 2010. Her research interests focus on the etiological processes involved in the development of alcohol use disorders, especially in high-risk youth.
	Michael Van Wie received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2010. He joined the lab as MIMIC project coordinator in the Summer of 2011. His research interests include mechanisms of comorbidity between anxiety and depression as well as the psychophysiology of self-injurious behaviors.