Biosocial Approaches to Stress and Embodiment (BASE) Lab

Faculty Leads: Dr. Jemar R. Bather and Dr. Adolfo Cuevas

Lab Manager: Natalie Herz

The Biosocial Approaches to Stress and Embodiment (BASE) Lab at the NYU School of Global Public Health examines how psychosocial stressors shape biological processes and health across the life course. Led by Dr. Jemar R. Bather and Dr. Adolfo G. Cuevas, the lab conducts interdisciplinary, NIH-funded research integrating epidemiology, psychology, biostatistics, neuroscience, and molecular biology. This work focuses on how interpersonal and structural forms of social adversity affect biological responses, contributing to dysregulation across physiological and molecular systems. The lab also examines how social relationships and community ties may buffer the health consequences of stress, with the goal of advancing biosocial frameworks that help explain health disparities and inform public health research and practice.

Objectives:

  • Characterize the ways psychosocial stressors across the life course influence immunological aging.
  • Examine how interpersonal and structural determinants interact to shape population-level health disparities.
  • Identify social and relational factors that buffer the biological effects of chronic stress and promote resilience.

For Prospective Lab Members:
The BASE Lab welcomes undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, interested in developing rigorous, interdisciplinary skills at the intersection of social science, biostatistics, and biology. Lab members engage in methodologically intensive research, including the analysis of large population-based datasets, biomarkers, and gene expression data using advanced quantitative and life course approaches. Students receive close mentorship in study design, analytic strategy, and scientific writing, with opportunities to contribute to peer-reviewed publications and grant-funded projects. The lab emphasizes collaborative scholarship, intellectual rigor, and the development of independent research agendas in biosocial science.

For questions about the lab, contact ne2399@nyu.edu.

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