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Education

BA Hons (Queen’s University)
MA (University of British Columbia)
PhD (University of British Columbia)
PDF (Harvard Medical School)

Research Interests

While all children and adolescents experience stress, it is only for some youth that stress is biologically embedded, or ‘gets under the skin’, in ways that impact long-term wellbeing. This raises several critical questions, each of which guides interwoven lines of work comprising my program of research.

First, I aim to uncover how stress affects wellbeing by identifying risk factors linked to negative mental and physical health outcomes, as well as protective factors that foster resilience. Second, I explore for whom the biological embedding of stress occurs by examining how early life adversity influences the functioning of multiple biological systems—including, but not limited to, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. I examine both risk and resilience processes to better how some individuals, despite exposure to adversity, show adaptive physiological functioning and positive outcomes. Third, I explore how stress gets ‘under the skin’ to impact mental and physical health through the integration of multiple biomarkers, which acknowledges the interconnected nature of biological systems and connects biology with behavior. This integrative approach also includes the identification of resilience biomarkers and protective behavioral processes, allowing for a comprehensive understanding of how some individuals withstand or recover from the negative effects of stress and adversity.

I pursue these lines of work with an overarching aim of developing and testing a biopsychosocial model of risk and resilience in youth that has actionable implications for practice and policy. I conduct research both within and beyond the laboratory via biomarker collection and psychophysiological assessment, cognitive tasks, surveys, and structured interviews of stress and psychopathology.

Publications

• Jopling, E.Ìý& Nelson, C.A. (2025). Early Life Adversity and Risk for Non-Communicable Disease: Challenge and Opportunities for a Maturing Field.ÌýBMC Medicine.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýDrury, S.S., Fox, N.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Nelson, C.A. (2025). The Epigenetic Impacts of Pubertal Acceleration Following Early Caregiver Disruptions.ÌýProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýJameson, T.,ÌýIbonie, S.G., Young, G., Mauss, I.B., Alloy, L.B., Borelli, J.L., Bullock, B., Holley, S.R., Kamble, S., Mason, L., Moriarity, D.P., Nusslock, R., Okuma, A., Rutledge, R.B., Strauss, G.P., Van Bavel, J.J., Villanueva, C.M., Gruber, J., & LeMoult, J. (2025). Understanding Resilience in Emerging Adults: An International, Multi-Site Study.ÌýAffective Science.Ìý
• Jopling, E.,ÌýRnic, K., Tracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2025). Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding during Early Adolescence.ÌýDevelopmental Psychobiology.
• Jopling, E.ÌýTracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2025). Impact of Attentional Bias to Threat on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth During the High School Transition.ÌýPsychoneuroendocrinology.
• Jopling, E. &ÌýLeMoult, J. (2023). Early Life Adversity and the Cortisol Awakening Response in Depression: A Meta-Analysis.ÌýJournal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýRnic, K.,ÌýJameson, T.,ÌýTracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2023). Discordance Indices of Stress Sensitivity and Trajectories of Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence.ÌýResearch on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
• Jopling, E., Rnic, K., Tracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2021). Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth.ÌýPsychoneuroendocrinology.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýTracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2021). Cognitive Disengagement and Biological Stress Responses in Early Adolescence.ÌýPsychoneuroendocrinology.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýGotlib, I.H., & LeMoult, J. (2020). Effects of working memory training on cognitive, affective, and biological responses to stress in major depression: A novel cognitive bias modification protocol.ÌýJournal of Affective Disorders.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýTracy, A.,Ìý& LeMoult, J. (2020).ÌýChildhood Maltreatment, Negative Self-Referential Processing, and Depressive Symptoms During Stress.ÌýPsychology Research and Behavior Management.
• Jopling, E.,ÌýBurke, M., Wilson, J., Tracy, A., & LeMoult, J. (2020). Positive Interpretation Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders. In H. Okon-Singer & T. Aue (Eds.),ÌýProcessing Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurophysiological Foundations.ÌýAmsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.