Muriah D. Wheelock, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Research Centers:

Muriah D. Wheelock, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiology and a principal investigator in the Neuroimaging Labs Research Center. Wheelock’s BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 project is focused on developing and disseminating network level analysis statistical methods for connectome-wide association studies across the lifespan and in health and disease. Her doctoral studies focused on behavioral and neural response to psychosocial stress using functional and structural connectivity analysis, while her postdoctoral training utilized graph theory to determine brain networks underlying healthy and disordered cognitive and behavioral development.

Research Interests

Multimodal neuroimaging, human brain connectivity analysis methods, brain network development and degeneration, cognitive and emotional function in health and disease

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Education History

Fellowship

TL1 NCATS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Translational Sciences), Washington University in St. Louis; T32 NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Developmental Neuroscience and Child Psychopathology), Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis

Doctorate

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Undergraduate

University of Alabama

Associations

Organization for Human Brain Mapping
The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Association for Psychological Science
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Executive Diversity Committee
Academic Women’s Network at Washington University School of Medicine
FLUX Society

Awards

2022 Academy Council for Early Career Investigators in Imaging class, Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research
2021-2023 Knight ADRC (P30), Research Education Component Scholar
2020-2022 Pathway to Independence Award (K99), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
2016 Gregg Steele Outstanding Graduate Student in Behavioral Neuroscience Award, University of Alabama at Birmingham