Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position

The Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professorship.

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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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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.

Scott Vrieze wins 2018 Fuller and Scott Award

June 26, 2018

IBG Faculty Fellow, Scott Vrieze , won the 2018 Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding scientific accomplishments by an early career member of the Behavior Genetics Association.

Spencer Huggett accepts the award from Eric Turkheimer

Spencer Huggett wins 2018 Rowe Award

June 26, 2018

IBG graduate student, Spencer Huggett , won the 2018 Rowe Award for the best poster presented at the Behavior Genetics Association meeting. Spencer Huggett & Michael Stallings, Cocaine'omics: The Genetic and Neurological Basis of Cocaine Use and Dependence .

Postdoctoral Fellow Position

April 30, 2018

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with experience in programming, statistics, and/or genetics to help us develop methods to elucidate the genetic architecture of complex traits using genome-wide data. This NIH funded work is being conducted at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG), University of Colorado, Boulder (PI Matthew Keller)...

Comparison of methods that use whole genome data to estimate the heritability and genetic architecture of complex traits

April 26, 2018

IBG post-doc Luke Evans is first author on a paper in Nature Genetics which provides a comprehensive summary of different methods of computing narrow sense heritability from SNP data.