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.
November 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Freida gave an oral presentation titled “Sex differences in the genetic aspects of clinical laboratory traits,” and she won the Best Oral Presentation at GGS retreat 2025!
November 2025 in New York
Lea served as a panelist in session “The promise and challenges of realizing genomic medicine” at GGS retreat 2025!
October 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Davis lab reunion at WCPG 2025! It was great seeing Yingjie, Kritika, Jessica, Julia, and Sandra!
May 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Ellen gave an oral presentation titled “The Value of including Individuals Prescribed Long-Term Opioids in Opioid Genetic Analyses” at WCPG 2025.
October 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Freida gave a talk titled “Sex Differences in the Association of APOE haplotypes, LDL cholesterol, and Dementia in the Electronic Health Record” at the symposium “Not All Minds Think Alike: Exploring Depression and Cognition Through a Sex-Stratified Lens” at WCPG 2025.
October 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Lea gave a talk titled “PsycheMERGE: Advancing Precision Psychiatry at Scale” at the symposium “Electronic Health Records and Biobanks in the Era of Computational and Genomic Psychiatry” at WCPG 2025.
October 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Kayla presented a poster “Decoding the Pleiotropy of Schizophrenia and Multiple Sclerosis at the HLA Locus” at WCPG 2025.
October 2025 in Cancun, Mexico
Rachana presented a poster “Understanding the Presentation of Complex Traits in Pediatric Populations” at WCPG 2025.
May 2025 in New York
Davis lab retreat in New York! We have folks in Nashville flying in to New York. It was a great and productive day of science!
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!