Kendall Parks

Kendall Parks

Kendall is a second-year graduate student in the SNAP-Lab. She received her undergraduate degree in 2017 from the University of San Francisco studying psychology and neuroscience. Prior to entering graduate school, Kendall was a clinical research coordinator at UC San Francisco working on various genetic studies and investigational drug trials on neurodevelopmental disorders in Dr. Elliott Sherr’s lab, the Brain Development Research Program (BDRP). She was also a research assistant at the UCSF BrainChange Lab with Dr. Olga Tymofiyeva, studying MRI techniques like arterial spin labeling on the adolescent brain and the onset of mood disorders.In the SNAP Lab, Kendall is interested in examining the impacts of maternal childhood abuse and neglect on the adolescent brain and gut microbiome development.