Matthew Keller

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...

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...

Dr. Matthew Keller's research bridges behavioral, evolutionary, and statistical genetics to elucidate the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders and individual differences. Over the past two years, he has published 24 peer-reviewed journal articles, many of those in the top journals in his field (Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behavior, Bioinformatics, Annual...

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Matt Keller who received The 2012 Behavior Genetics Association's Fuller and Scott Early Career Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishments by a member who is early in their career. Matt earned this award based on his groundbreaking evolutionary and statistical genetic studies of behavior...

At this year's meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Fulker Award for best paper published in the journal Behavior Genetics during 2010 was presented to IBG Faculty Fellow, Matt Keller (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience), Sarah Medland of the Queensland Institute for Medical Research, and Laramie Duncan, a...