News and Photos

Davis Lab life in pictures! We work smart and play hard. Our lab enjoys spending time together in New York, Nashville, and around the world! Here are some pictures of our adventures over the years including parties, conferences, graduations, and science headlines.

May 2025 in New York

Lea presented a poster “What is a learning healthcare system” at Sinai DNA day 2025. Thanks everyone for stopping by!

May 2025 in New York

Fizah presented a poster “Reclassifying Rare Mutations for Public Health Genomics” at Sinai DNA day 2025. This poster won 2nd place in the Best Poster competition!

May 2025 in New York

Ellen presented her poster “Using AI to Study Genes and Opioid Dependence” at Sinai DNA day 2025. This poster won 1st place in the Best Poster competition!

February 2025 in Nashville

Dr. Allie Lake’s post-defense celebration dinner with Nashville folks.
Congratulations again, Dr. Lake!

February 2025 in Nashville

Allie’s post-defense celebration with Blake, Ky’Era, Lea, Tyne, and Rachana.

February 2025 in Nashville

Allie presented her dissertation titled “Leveraging electronic health records to evaluate gene-by-environment interactions in psychiatry.”

October 2024 in Singapore

Allie presented her poster titled “Genome-wide association study of short-term weight change following atypical anti-psychotic exposure in a hospital population” at WCPG 2024.

October 2024 in Singapore

Ellen gave an oral presentation titled “Genome-wide association analysis of an in-silico phenotype sourced from clinical notes: the Addiction Behaviors Checklist” at WCPG 2024.

June 2024 in Nashville

Congratulations Dr. Tara Mack! We are so proud of you!

May 2024 in Nashville

Lea’s goodbye party with the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI) community.

May 2024 in New York

Davis lab in New York! Photo taken with a bulldog outside of the restaurant (not visible but it’s there!)

May 2024 in New York

Davis lab visiting Mount Sinai! We toured Mount Sinai and New York Genome Center. Fun time together!

November 2022 in Paris, France

Kritika, Lindsay, Lea, Ky’Era, and Allie enjoying the IGES venue at in Paris, France.

November 2024 in Los Angeles

Maria presenting her work on polygenic scores and year of birth.

October 2024 in Florence, Italy

Lea receiving the Theodore Reich Award.
(Notes: Lea wore a dress full of cats!)

May 2022 in Nashville

Ky’Era’s PhD graduation!

May 2022 in Nashville

Julia’s PhD graduation!

May 2022 in Nashville

Slavi’s PhD graduation!