One of our RABLAB postdocs, Dr. Caitlin Hudac, recently traveled to San Antonio Texas for the 50th Annual Gatlinburg Conference On Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The theme for this year’s conference was “Outcome Measures, Biomarkers, and Treatment Possibilities”. Dr. Hudac participated in a symposium highlighting EEG as a tool for evaluating biomarkers with colleagues from UCLA (Drs. Shafali Jeste, Sandra Loo, Charlotte DiStefano, Abby Dickinson). Dr. Hudac’s work described overly responsive ERP patterns of attention and learning associated with ASD and comorbid intellectual disability. From a genetics-first approach, she noted that this pattern was particularly severe in children who have a rare genetic variant that impacts early brain development. Keep posted as we prepare these results for publication!