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IBG
Graduate Students
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Raven Astrom
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
The genetic and environmental influences on reading ability
and
disability and the stability of reading difficulties and long-term
outcome.
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L.
Cinnamon Bidwell
Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
Ms. Bidwell is interested in the relationships between genetic
and neuropsychological pathways in the etiology of attentional
disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
and schizophrenia. She is currently a second-year graduate
student in the Clinical Psychology training program.
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Joshua Bricker
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
Genetic and environmental influences on age of sexual initiation
and measures of risky sexual behavior: Twin and family studies.
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Kimberly
Brodsky
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
Kim is in her third year in the Clinical Psychology training
program. After completing her undergraduate education at the
University of California, Berkeley, she worked at the Henry
H. Wheeler Brain Imaging Center on studies that applied functional
magnetic resonance imaging techniques. For her Master's project
she is comparing the neurocognitive correlates of childhood
ADHD and schizophrenia in collaboration with researchers at
the Center for Schizophrenia Research at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center.
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Victoria
E. Cosgrove
Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
Ms. Cosgrove is interested in personality constructs and their
genetic relationship to comorbidity between adolescent internalizing
and externalizing disorders. She is currently a second-year
graduate student in the Clinical Psychology training program.
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Jennifer
Drapeau
Ph.D. program, Integrative Physiology.
The molecular and cellular characterization of a naturally
occurring polymorphism in the nicotinic receptor ?4 subunit
gene to establish how the polymorphism affects receptor function
and subsequently sensitivity to nicotine.
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Angela
Friend
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
Ms. Friend is interested in the genetic and environmental
influences on reading and reading related skills. She is currently
a second-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology
program.
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Detre
Godinez
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
Genetic and environmental influences on the executive system
and its relationship with substance abuse and other comorbid
disorders.
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Renee Good
Ph.D. program, Toxicology.
Environmental and genetic influences of sub-acute neurotoxic methamphetamine
exposure in periadolescent mice and behavioral drug response in adulthood.
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Jesse
Hawke
Ph.D. program, Psychology.
Differential genetic etiology of reading difficulties as a
function of age and gender in the Colorado Twin Study of Reading
Disability.
- Melissa Munn
Ph.
D. program, Psychology.
The genetic and environmental influences on eating, mood, and related disorders.
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Rohan
Palmer
Ph.
D. program, Psychology.
Mr. Palmer is interested in the genetic and environmental
influences on psychosocial disorders as well as the persistent
and transient problems leading into substance dependency.
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Clarissa
Parker
Ph.D. program, Neuroscience.
The genetic and environmental determinants of substance abuse
and related phenotypes such as impulsivity, aggression, and
anxiety, with an emphasis on the interaction between alcohol
and the HPA axis, and individual differences in response to
alcohol and stress
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Lara Ray
Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology
Etiology, prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.
Specifically, genetic and psychosocial factors related to
the development of alcohol abuse and dependence. Ms.
Ray is conducting a pharmacogenetics study for her dissertation,
in which
she will examine genetic factors that may influence responses
to
naltrexone, a drug used to treat alcohol dependence.
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Isabel
Schlaepfer
Ph.D. program, Integrative Physiology.
The study of candidate genes for ethanol drinking preference
with special interest in syntaxin binding proteins and the
association between alcohol and diabetes risk.
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Jay
Schulz-Heik
Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
Mr. Schulz-Heik is interested in genetic and environmental
mediation of the effects of parenting behaviors on children's
development. He is currently a second-year graduate student
in the clinical psychology training program.
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Laura
Sobik
Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
The genetic influences of cue-elicited craving for food.
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