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Kate Webb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. She leads the Biological Embedding Environment Stress (BEES) Laboratory, where her research focuses on understanding the biological underpinnings of stress and trauma-related disorders, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Webb utilizes a variety of methods including neuroimaging, geospatial techniques, behavioral assessments, and genetic analyses to identify predictors of PTSD and to gain insights into the profiles of individuals at increased risk for this disorder. Her overarching goal in her current work is to determine how socio-environmental factors, individual characteristics, and neurobiology interact and influence the development and progression of PTSD.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)