Chandra Reynolds portrait

Chandra Reynolds becomes professor at IBG

Aug. 24, 2023

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.

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Professor Andrew Grotzinger won the Fuller and Scott award at the 2023 BGA conference

July 20, 2023

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...

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IBG student Lydia Rader wins Rowe award for best poster at 2023 BGA conference

July 20, 2023

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

IBG Student Mina Griffioen received an award from the Sheryl R. Young Memorial Fellowship

May 1, 2023

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...

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IBG faculty Michael Stallings and IBG fellow Christian Hopfer awarded NIDA R01

Sept. 15, 2022

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.

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Professor Marissa Ehringer chosen as a Faculty Leadership Institute fellow for 2022-2023

Aug. 25, 2022

IBG faculty fellow Professor Marissa Ehringer has been chosen as a Faculty Leadership Institute fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Matthew Keller portrait

IBG Director Matthew Keller (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 award from the National Institutes of Mental Health

Aug. 9, 2022

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." This project will extend existing and develop new models that use whole-genome data measured in parents...

Soo Rhee portrait

IBG Faculty Fellow Soo Rhee (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Aug. 9, 2022

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 twins design." This application uses a children of twins design in samples from Minnesota and...

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Jared Balbona, Yongkang Kim, and Matthew Keller won the Fulker award for the best paper published in 2021 in Behavioral Genetics

Aug. 9, 2022

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 similarity is due to direct parental influences versus shared genetics, and...

Marissa Ehringer portrait

IBG Faculty Fellow Marissa Ehringer promoted to Full Professor

Aug. 1, 2022

IBG faculty fellow Marissa Ehringer was promoted from associate professor to full professor.

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