Tavia evans

Dr. Tavia Evans

About

I have a background in psychology, epidemiology and neuroscience with a focus on neuroimaging in ageing. Whilst completing my Psychology BSc at Cardiff university I undertook placements at Kings College London and Whitchurch psychiatric hospital. Following from this I enrolled in a Neuroscience PhD programme at Kings College London and moved to Rotterdam to conduct observational research within the Epidemiology and Radiology departments. Whilst completing my PhD I took part in the MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at Erasmus MC. During these programmes I investigated the role of neuroimaging markers at varying levels of specificity within the prediction of disease and cognitive decline.

I am a post-doctoral researcher within the Precision Epidemiology group working with Hieab Adams. My main focus is on neuroimaging of neurodegeneration and I am the chief of image analysis within the UNITED consortium, a large global neuroimaging consortium focusing on neurodegeneration. Alongside this I work within the CHARGE consortium within the neuroworking group. I am also investigating the use of deep learning in neuroimaging to predict incidental findings and the measurement of facial morphology in relation to brain structure and cognition.

Positions

Postdoctoral researcher, departments of Clinical Genetics and Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Chief image analysis, the UNITED consortium

Publications

Vilor-Tejedor, N., Evans, T. E., Adams, H. H., González-de-Echávarri, J. M., Molinuevo, J. L., Guigo, R., Gispert, J. D., & Operto, G. (2021). Genetic Influences on Hippocampal Subfields: An Emerging Area of Neuroscience Research. Neurology. Genetics, 7(3), e591. https://doi.org/10.1212/NXG.0000000000000591
Sargurupremraj, M., Suzuki, H., Jian, X., Sarnowski, C., Evans, T. E., Bis, J. C., Eiriksdottir, G., Sakaue, S., Terzikhan, N., Habes, M., Zhao, W., Armstrong, N. J., Hofer, E., Yanek, L. R., Hagenaars, S. P., Kumar, R. B., van den Akker, E. B., McWhirter, R. E., Trompet, S., Mishra, A., … Debette, S. (2020). Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan. Nature communications, 11(1), 6285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19111-2
Vilor-Tejedor, N., Operto, G., Evans, T. E., Falcon, C., Crous-Bou, M., Minguillón, C., Cacciaglia, R., Milà-Alomà, M., Grau-Rivera, O., Suárez-Calvet, M., Garrido-Martín, D., Morán, S., Esteller, M., Adams, H. H., Molinuevo, J. L., Guigó, R., Gispert, J. D., & ALFA Study (2020). Effect of BDNF Val66Met on hippocampal subfields volumes and compensatory interaction with APOE-ε4 in middle-age cognitively unimpaired individuals from the ALFA study. Brain structure & function, 225(8), 2331–2345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-020-02125-3
Shin, J., Ma, S., Hofer, E., Patel, Y., Vosberg, D. E., Tilley, S., Roshchupkin, G. V., Sousa, A., Jian, X., Gottesman, R., Mosley, T. H., Fornage, M., Saba, Y., Pirpamer, L., Schmidt, R., Schmidt, H., Carrion-Castillo, A., Crivello, F., Mazoyer, B., Bis, J. C., … Evans, T. E., Adams, H. H., … neuroCHARGE Working Group (2020). Global and Regional Development of the Human Cerebral Cortex: Molecular Architecture and Occupational Aptitudes. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 30(7), 4121–4139. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa035
Adams, H., Evans, T. E., & Terzikhan, N. (2019). The Uncovering Neurodegenerative Insights Through Ethnic Diversity consortium. The Lancet. Neurology, 18(10), 915. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30324-2