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Jacob Michaelson, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry

Current Positions

  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
  • Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • Roy J Carver Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  • Division Director, Computational and Molecular Psychiatry

Education

  • MS in Biological Engineering, Utah State University, Logan UT
  • PhD in Computational Biology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Autism genomics, Jonathan Sebat Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

Graduate Program Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • Thomas, T. R., Tener, A. J., Pearlman, A. M., Imborek, K. L., Seung Yang, J., Strang, J. F., & Michaelson, J. J. (2024) Polygenic Scores Clarify the Relationship Between Mental Health and Gender Diversity. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 4 (2). DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100291
  • Casten, L.G., Thomas, T.R., Doobay, A.F., Foley-Nicpon, M., Kramer, S., Nickl-Jockschat, T., Abel, T., Assouline, S., & Michaelson, J.J. (2023) The combination of autism and exceptional cognitive ability is associated with suicidal ideation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 197. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107698
  • Strang, J.F., Wallace, G.L., Michaelson, J.J., Fischbach, A.L., Thomas, T.R., Jack, A., Shen, J., Chen, D., Freeman, A., Knauss, M. & others. (2023) The Gender Self-Report: A Multidimensional Gender Characterization Tool for Gender-Diverse and Cisgender Youth and Adults. American Psychologist DOI: 10.1037/amp0001117
  • Veatch, O.J., Mazzotti, D.R., Schultz, R.T., Abel, T., Michaelson, J.J., Brodkin, E.S., Tunc, B., Assouline, S.G., Nickl-Jockschat, T., Malow, B.A.& others. (2022) Calculating genetic risk for dysfunction in pleiotropic biological processes using whole exome sequencing data. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 14 (39). DOI: 10.1186/s11689-022-09448-8
  • Wodka, E.L., Parish-Morris, J., Annett, R.D., Carpenter, L., Dillon, E., Michaelson, J., Kim, S.H., Landa, R., & Kanne, S. (2022) Co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anxiety disorders differentially affect males and females with autism. Clinical Neuropsychologist 36 (5) 1069-1093. DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2021.1942554
  • Thomas, T. R., Koomar, T., Casten, L. G., Tener, A. J., Bahl, E., & Michaelson, J. J. (2022) Clinical autism subscales have common genetic liabilities that are heritable, pleiotropic, and generalizable to the general population. Translational Psychiatry 12 (247). DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-01982-2
  • Gaine, M.E., Bahl, E., Chatterjee, S., Michaelson, J.J., Abel, T., & Lyons, L.C. (2021) Altered hippocampal transcriptome dynamics following sleep deprivation. Molecular Brain 14 (125). DOI: 10.1186/s13041-021-00835-1
  • Michaelson, J.J., Doobay, A., Casten, L., Schabilion, K., Foley-Nicpon, M., Nickl-Jockschat, T., Abel, T., & Assouline, S. (2021) Autism in gifted youth is associated with low processing speed and high verbal ability. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.02.21265802
  • Thomas, T.R., Koomar, T., Casten, L.G., Tener, A.J., Bahl, E., & Michaelson, J.J. (2021) Clinical autism subscales have common genetic liabilities that are heritable, pleiotropic, and generalizable to the general population. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.30.21262845
  • Koomar, T., Thomas, T.R., Pottschmidt, N.R., Lutter, M., & Michaelson, J.J. (2021) Estimating the Prevalence and Genetic Risk Mechanisms of ARFID in a Large Autism Cohort. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.668297