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A new paper published in Nature with Matthew Keller as senior author explores the potential of family-based sampling for future biobanks, emphasizing its advantages in uncovering causal relationships and minimizing confounding factors in
At the 2024 BGA meeting in London, UK, Lukas Schaffer won the Outstanding Associate Member Oral Presentation Award for his talk titled "Genetic Pathways for Autism Spectrum Disorder Unique of ADHD at Multiple Levels of Biological Analysis."
Lydia Rader is a graduate student in the behavioral, psychiatric, and statistical genetics program. Lydia has shown tremendous leadership both within and outside of the program. Locally, Lydia has been a research award reviewer for the Institute of
Sam Freis’s work examines the phenotypic and genetic relationship between executive functions and other cognitive processes. She elucidates how these relate to self-regulation and psychopathology. Specifically, her major work makes use of the rich
Katie Paulich is poised to graduate with her PhD in behavioral genetics and has shown excellence and dedication to teaching throughout her training. Katie’s nomination was supported by multiple faculty letters of support, including from Drs. Matt
IBG PhD student Eammon Duffy's paper using a rat model system to study opioid use disorder is published in Genes, Brain & Behavior. See the full paper here.
IBG PhD Candidate Romero Villela and Professor Ehringer's research on the genetics of smoking highlighted in the Daily Camera. See the article here.- Erika Mehrhoff in the Ehringer lab was awarded $5000 from the Research Society on Alcohol through their Doctoral Students Small Grants Program to support “Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes in the Liver of a GCKR P446L Mouse Model Related to
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that long-time collaborator Dr. Chandra Reynolds has officially joined us as a professor at IBG. Dr. Reynolds is a leading expert in life span development and aging with a focus on the role of genes and
Professor Andrew Grotzinger won the Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding early career contributions to the field of behavior genetics. Andrew is one of the originators of what is debatably the most important methodological innovation in behavioral