Conference Schedule

Wednesday, June 2nd 2010

9:00 am – 10:45 am	Session 1 – Health and Risk Behavior
Susan Short	Age at Initiation of Smoking and Nicotine Dependence
George Wehby	Genetic Instrumental Variable Analyses of the Effects of Smoking on BMI
Trenton Smith	Biological Evolution of Risk Attitudes: A Unifying Framework
Kathleen Harris	The Dopamine Transporter Gene, a Spectrum of Most Common Risky Behaviors, and the Legal Status of the Behaviors
10:45 am – 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm	Session 2 – Education and Cognition
Christopher Chabris	Most Published SNP Associations with General Cognitive Ability Are Probably False Positives
Jonathan Beauchamp	A Genome Wide Association Study of Educational Attainment
Stephanie Von Hinke	Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables: An Application to Child Fat Mass and Academic Achievement
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Session 3 – Political Attitudes and Behavior
Jaime Settle	DRD4-R7, Political Ideology and the Contextual Effect of the County Foreign Born Population
Brad Verhulst	The Structure of American Political Ideology: Disentangling the importance of psychological predispositions and socially constructions in the organization of political attitudes
Amanda Keller	Phenotypic and Genetic Covariance between Personality, Altruism, Ideology and Political Donations
Pete Hatemi	Genome-Wide Association Liberalism and Conservativism
Christopher Dawes	COMT, Extraversion, and Partisan Attachment
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm	Snack Break
4:20 pm – 5:45 pm	Session 4 – Economics and Economic Behavior
Jan-Emmanuel DeNeve Jason Fletcher Jere Behrman &   Hans Peter Kohler	Genes, Economics, and Happiness Genetic Lotteries within Families Identifying Causation and the Role of Endowments: The Use of Twin Studies in Economics and Behavior Genetics
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Happy Hour - Sherpa’s Adventures Restaurant and Bar - 825 Walnut Street, Boulder CO 80302

Thursday, June 3rd 2010

9:00 am – 10:45 am	Session 1 – Innovations in Theory, Research & Measurement
Hobart H. Cleveland	The use of intensive within-person data to demonstrate and specify Gene-Environment co-actions
Jeremy Freese	Genetic Heritability and the Fundamental Cause Perspective on Disease
Whitney Robinson	Deconstructing Nature: on the fallacy of the Nature=genes paradigm in health research
Dalton Conley	Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment: Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
10:45 am – 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:15 am – 1:15 pm	Session 2 – Stress, Mental Health and Aging
Matthew Bradshaw	Gene-Environment Interplay and Life Course Health
Colter Mitchell	The Role of Mother’s Genes and Environment in Postpartum Depression
Sarinnipha Vasunilashorn	Genetic markers and age in the Tsimane of Bolivia
Jason Boardman	Stressful life events and depression
Jessica Faul	Creating a National Resource for Genetic Research in Behavioral and Health Sciences
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch Break — catered lunch in IBS #11
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm	Concluding Remarks - Genes, Environment and Behavior, Bringing it all together!
	John Hobcraft
	Jason Boardman
	Jason Fletcher
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Walking tour of downtown Boulder. Meet your guide outside of the Boulderado, at the corner of 13th and Spruce Streets. Your guide will be there 10 minutes early and will be holding a sign that reads, "Boulder Walking Tours."