Spectrum: Autism Research News
Meet the Spectrum Team
Staff
Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky joined Spectrum in 2020, having previously served in editorial leadership roles at outlets including Medscape, Reuters Health and Scientific American.
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Kristin Ozelli
Kristin Ozelli oversees Spectrum’s day-to-day operations, manages the news team and oversees the production of articles and multimedia content.
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Nicholette Zeliadt
Nicholette Zeliadt manages Spectrum‘s staff writers and interns, and she commissions and edits news and opinion articles.
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Ingrid Wickelgren
Ingrid Wickelgren edits Deep Dives, Spectrum’s long-form stories on important topics in autism research.
Rebecca Horne
Rebecca oversees and directs Spectrum‘s multimedia operations, publishes all content on the site and commissions illustrations, infographics and other multimedia content.
Hope Vanderberg
Hope Vanderberg edits articles on Spectrum for grammar and accuracy.
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Peter Hess
Peter Hess is a news writer for Spectrum, where he covers autism research.
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Laura Dattaro
Laura Dattaro is a reporter for Spectrum, where she covers autism research and writes the Null and Noteworthy Newsletter.
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Chelsey B. Coombs
Chelsey B. Coombs oversees Spectrum’s social media presence and audience engagement.
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Angie Voyles Askham
Angie Voyles Askham is a reporter for Spectrum, where she covers autism research.
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Ashfia Alam
Ashfia Alam supports the Spectrum team, assisting with daily operations, webinars and events.
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Niko McCarty
Niko McCarty is Spectrum’s data reporter and a graduate student at New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
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Contributors
Contributing writers:
Advisory Board
Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and publisher of its award-winning science magazine, Undark.
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Stephanie Chan
Stephanie Chan performs research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, as a research scientist at DeepMind. She completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Princeton University.
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David Gresham
David Gresham is associate professor of biology at New York University. His lab focuses on genome evolution and plasticity, post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and control of cell growth.
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Laura Helmuth
Laura Helmuth is editor-in-chief at Scientific American and vice president of the National Association of Science Writers.
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Rebecca Jones
Rebecca Jones is a senior clinical research scientist at Imagen Technologies and clinical assistant professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
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Sara Luterman
Sara Luterman is the caregiving reporter at The 19th, based outside Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor at Radiolab.
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Robin Marantz Henig
Robin Marantz Henig is a science journalist and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and is president of the National Association of Science Writers.
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Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi
Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi is associate professor of neurology at the University of California, Davis.
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Jason Penchoff
Jason Penchoff is senior director of marketing and communications at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City, where he focuses on content strategy and physician engagement.
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David Sassoon
David Sassoon is the founder and publisher of InsideClimate News, the nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2013.
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