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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
Lydia Rader won the Rowe award for best poster presented at BGA. Her poster was titled, "Associations between adolescent pain and psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study." Best posters aren't just judged for what
Mina Griffioen was selected to receive a second-place award for the Sheryl R. Young Memorial Fellowship of $2,000 for the 2023-2024 academic year. The family of Dr. Young along with Dean Adler selected her on the basis of her nomination by the
IBG fellow Christian Hopfer, IBG faculty member Michael Stallings and Tamara Wall (MPIs) were awarded a 5-year R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to identify predictors of persistent drug abuse.
IBG faculty fellow Professor Marissa Ehringer has been chosen as a Faculty Leadership Institute fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year.
IBG Director Matthew Keller (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 award from the National Institutes of Mental Health, "Causes and consequences of mental disorders: The environmental and genetic influences of parents on offspring
IBG Faculty Fellow Soo Rhee (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Understanding the links between parental and adolescent substance use: complementary natural experiments using the children of
Jared Balbona, Yongkang Kim, and Matthew Keller won the Fulker award for the best paper published in 2021 in Behavioral Genetics. The paper presents a model for using polygenic scores within families to estimate the degree to which parent-offspring
IBG faculty fellow Marissa Ehringer was promoted from associate professor to full professor.