Current Graduate Students
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Name |
Program |
Research Interests | IBG Advisor |
Raven Astrom |
BG 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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Cinnamon Bidwell |
Clinical Psychology |
The relationships between genetic and neuropsychological pathways in the etiology of attentional disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia. |
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Debra Boeldt |
Clinical Psychology |
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Angela Brandt |
BG Psychology |
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Joshua Bricker |
BG 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 |
Clinical Psychology |
Comparing the neurocognitive correlates of childhood ADHD and schizophrenia. |
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Victoria Cosgrove |
Clinical Psychology |
Personality constructs and their genetic relationship to comorbidity between adolescent internalizing and externalizing disorders. |
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Jennifer Drapeau |
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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Laura Dumas |
Human Medical Genetics (UCHSC) |
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Laramie Duncan |
Clinical Psychology |
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Angela Friend |
Cognitive Psychology |
The genetic and environmental influences on reading and reading related skills. |
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Renee Good |
Toxicology (UCHSC) |
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 |
BG Psychology |
Differential genetic etiology of reading difficulties as a function of age and gender in the Colorado Twin Study of Reading Disability. |
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Tristan McClure-Begley |
Integrative Physiology |
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Rohan Palmer |
BG Psychology |
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 |
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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Isabel Schlaepfer |
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 |
Clinical Psychology |
The genetic and environmental mediation of the effects of parenting behaviors on children's development. |
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