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At the end of each year IBG hosts a mini-conference where students and trainees present their original research. Afterwards, we celebrate!

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Molecular Genetics and Neuroscience

Multiple laboratories use neuroscience and molecular genetic approaches to understand behavior in animals.

fMRI, Executive Function, and Genes

Studies of executive function look at the genetic basis of brain regions involved in decision making

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Workshop 2019 Registration

Registration for the 2019 International Workshop On Statistical Genetic Methods For Human Complex Traits advanced course is now open.

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Featured Research at IBG

COTwins: Colorado Twin Study

A social media study with Colorado twins ages 14-17.

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Nicotinic Receptors

A study on DNA regions involved with nicotine dependence.

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CATSLife

Colorado Adoption & Twin Study of Lifecourse Development.

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fMRI Studies

Several Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies are underway.

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Registration is now open for the 2019 Statistical Genetics Workshop

Oct. 8, 2018

Registration for the 2019 International Workshop On Statistical Genetic Methods For Human Complex Traits advanced course is now open.

Leadership and Service Award Selection Committee Chair Andrea Feldman and recipient Matthew McQueen

Matt McQueen received the 2018 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for leadership and service

Sept. 28, 2018

Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology and IBG Faculty Fellow, Matt McQueen, received the 2018 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for leadership and service: "Through his research at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at CU Boulder, he started studying addiction, impulsivity and disinhibition. He also directs the Public Health Program and Epidemiology Laboratory."

HIgh Risk of Death Among Teens with Conduct Disorder and Substance Abuse

Aug. 9, 2018

IBG graduate student, Richard Border , and IBG Faculty Fellow, Dr. Soo Rhee , and their colleagues report on the strikingly high risk of early death among teens with conduct disorder and substance abuse. Original article in Addiction CU Boulder Today article Science Daily article

The Genetics of Educational Attainment

July 31, 2018

IBG training program graduate, Dr. Robbee Wedow, and IBG Faculty Fellow, Prof. Jason Boardman, coauthor major new study on the genetics of educational attainment. The original article is published in Nature Genetics . These findings are also summarized in a CU news release , an article on the study in...

Professor Marissa Ehringer is interviewed by Scitech Europa

July 23, 2018

IBG Faculty Fellow and President of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, Prof. Marissa Ehringer, discusses the opportunities and challenges for contemporary neural and behavioral genetics.