Tenure Track Assistant Professorship Institute for Behavioral Genetics

The Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professorship with an academic appointment in one of the following departments: 1) Integrative Physiology, 2) Psychology and Neuroscience, 3) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The Institute seeks to strengthen its next generation of research on...

Institute for Behavioral Genetics, 50 Years of Excellence, 1967-2017

Breaking ground: Jerry McClearn, Kurt Schlesinger, and Jim Wilson.

IBG Research Day

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

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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IBG Trainee's Work Featured in NIDA Notes

Sept. 23, 2021

IBG Trainee Jordan Buck's Ph.D. work on the consequences of maternal nicotine use during pregnancy on epigenetic factors in her offspring and grand offspring is featured in NIDA Notes. See the full story here .

IBG graduate student Katie Paulich's article on screen time featured in CU Boulder today and on Fox 31 Denver

Sept. 14, 2021

IBG graduate student, Katie Paulich, has her paper on screen time and children's outcomes, using the ABCD Study, featured in CU Boulder today and on Fox 31 Denver .

IBG Student Pamela Romero Villela Interviewed by the Graduate and Professional Student Government.

Sept. 7, 2021

IBG graduate student Pamela Romero Villela was recently interviewed by the Graduate and Professional Student Government for a Research Excellence Spotlight. Read the full interview here .

Recent IBG graduate, Evan Winiger, won the Rowe award at the 2021 BGA conference

Sept. 3, 2021

Recent IBG graduate, Evan Winiger, won the Rowe award for best poster presentation by an Associate Member at this year's meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association for his poster: "Genetic Identification of Sleep Vulnerabilities Inherited with Substance Use". Dr. Winiger is now a postdoctoral fellow with the Development of Psychopathology,...

Carol Becker Lynch Award for excellence in behavior genetics research

Sept. 1, 2021

A generous gift from Prof. Robert Lynch and the late Prof. and Vice Chancellor Carol Becker Lynch has established the Carol Becker Lynch Endowed Graduate Research Fund to provide support of various kinds for our graduate research training programs and for the cultural and educational mission of the Institute for...