The Hall Lab

Congratulations to Dr. Morris Aguilar for completing his PhD! Dr. Aguilar will be returning to Penn State Hershey to finish the MD portion of his MD/PhD program.

Dr. Kristin Passero successfully defended her PhD! Dr. Passero has accepted a Senior Research Analyst position at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Congratulations to Hall Lab postdoc, Dr. Tomas González Zarzar, for starting his own lab as Assistant Professor at Universidad Mayor!

Dr. Jiayan Zhou successfully defended his PhD! Dr. Zhou will be headed to Stanford University for a postdoctoral fellowship.

Dr. Tomas González Zarzar, Kristin Passero, Jiayan Zhou, and Dr. Molly Hall discuss Hall Lab research with USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack during his visit to Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences.

Hall Lab PhD student Jiayan Zhou publishes new paper as co-first author in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Here we leveraged social media data from Twitter to anticipate vaccine hesitancy at the US county level.

Lingyao Li, Jiayan Zhou, Zihui Ma, Michelle T.Bens, Molly A.Hall, Gregory B.Baecher “Dynamic assessment of the COVID-19 vaccine acceptance leveraging social media data.” Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Hall Lab postdoc Dr. Tomás González Zarzar’s first-author paper has been published in Frontiers in Radiology. In this collaboration with Drs. Dokyoon Kim and Li Shen (UPenn), we evaluated sex differences in metabolomic effects on Alzheimer’s Disease.

González-Zarzar T, Lee B, Coughlin R, Kim D, Shen L, Hall MA “Sex Differences in the Metabolome of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression.” Frontiers in Radiology