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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 Cognitive Science as well as recently selected as a Co-Senator between the...

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 data set of the ABCD study to examine developmental questions about the similarities and differences between...

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 Keller and Brooke Huibregtse Ketels, which highlighted her experience, skills, and dedication to...

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 Alcohol Behaviors and Metabolic Conditions”.

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 environment in risk for dementia.

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 genetics in the last 10 years (Genomic SEM) and the first author on...

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 is on the poster itself, but for how well the candidate understands and...

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 Department of Integrative Physiology and Professor Kenneth Wright...