The Jovanovic Lab - DTP

DTP was proud to have four of our interns presenting their research at WSU’s Urban Health Research Conference! 👏

It’s always exciting to see students share their work, build confidence as scientists, and engage in conversations about trauma research and mental health. We’re grateful for all of their hard work and dedication this year — and loved seeing them in action presenting their posters.

DTP represented at the Brain, Behavior and Mind Conference 👏

Congratulations to Oluwaseyi Akintoroye, Mohammad Turaani, and Tate Poplin for presenting their research posters at this year’s conference. Special congratulations to Tate Poplin, TNP doctoral candidate, for receiving the Best Clinical Poster Award! 🏆

We’re proud to see our trainees sharing impactful work and representing the lab so well.

The Detroit Trauma Project at ADAA in Chicago ✨ We are so proud of our team — 6 of our students presented their research, showcasing the incredible work happening in our lab. It was a big moment for Dr Jovanovic as well, as she stepped into her role as President-Elect of the organization. We are grateful for the opportunity to share, learn, and connect with this community.

DTP lab members participated in Brain Day at the Michigan Science Center! We had a wonderful time teaching kids about their sweat and how it relates to science.

DTP graduate students, Manessa Riser and Tate Poplin, got 2nd Place and Honorable Mention respectively (winning 2 out of the 3 award places!) for their poster presentations at the 2026 Graduate Student Research Presentation Day – a competition that is open to graduate students from all across the School of Medicine. Congratulations and thank you for representing DTP so well!

DTP is excited to share a new paper from Tate Poplin in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. Tate is the first author and a current graduate student in our lab. This work was conducted during Tate’s prior role as a research assistant at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, OK. The paper examines how transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) affects attention and threat processing in individuals with anxious depression. The study found that frontal tDCS enhanced task engagement and executive control—but also unexpectedly increased sensitivity to threat, highlighting the nuanced effects of neuromodulation in complex clinical populations. A BPCNNI press release about this study is linked in our bio!