Welcome to the
Michigan PNI Lab

About

Welcome! The Michigan PNI lab exists at the intersection of psychology and medicine. We study how immune function affects mental health, and how psychosocial factors affect immune status in individuals with and without disease. The ultimate goal of this research is to identify, and when possible, intervene on factors that promote and maintain mental and physical (especially immune) disorders

The Winter 2025 PNI Lab


In the Michigan PNI Lab, all are welcome. We recognize that the current psychological science is skewed due to systemic injustice that privileged white participants and investigators above others, resulting in data collection procedures fraught with unexamined -isms of the past. The best work comes from the most diverse teams, in which individuals feel safe to ideate and collaborate. It is an explicit, orienting principle that all members of the lab will humbly work to identify and overwrite biases, create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and uplift one another in their learning and research endeavors, recognizing that success is not a zero-sum game.