Institute for Behavioral Genetics First Friday Talks & Colloquium

Spring 2006

Brion Maher  
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics, Division of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Title—ADHD, Endophenotypes and the Dopamine System”  
Co-sponsored by IBG and the Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder
(Candidate for Behavioral Statistical Genetics Position)

Matthew McQueen
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Title—“Mapping Genetic Determinants of Bipolar Disorder”
Co-sponsored by IBG and the Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder  (Candidate for Behavioral Statistical Genetics Position)

Gregory A. Petsko
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry; Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. 
Title:  “The Structural Enzymology of Parkinson’s Disease”

Jeesun Jung  
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Division of Statistical Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
Title—Combined Linkage and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci”  Co-sponsored by IBG and the Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder  (Candidate for Behavioral Statistical Genetics Position)

Jeesun Jung 
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Division of Statistical Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
“Gene Dropping vs. Empirical Variance Estimation:  A Comparative Study of Standardization Methods for Allele-Sharing Statistics”  
Co-sponsored by IBG and the Department of Applied Math, University of Colorado at Boulder  (Candidate for Behavioral Statistical Genetics Position)

2006 Super Mouse Group Meeting—Sponsored by Beth Bennett.  
The Super Mouse Group Meeting involves researchers giving 15 minute presentations on their current projects (including work mapping ethanol sensitivity genes), with discussion following.