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IBG assistant professor Charles Hoeffer and IBG associate professer Marissa Ehringer, in a paper written by former IBG postdoc Helen Wong, publish research examining the biology of gender differences in response to psychiatric medication. They find differences between male and female mice in the function of the brain protein AKT.

First year graduate student Julia Potocnjak has received a Figueroa Family Fellowship for her comitment to promoting a diverse student body.

Claire Morrison , a graduate student at IBG, won the Rowe award for best poster presentation at the 2020 BGA conference. The title of her poster is Latent genetic structure of sleep health and psychopathology.

Jared Balbona won the Thompson award for the best presentation by a student at the 2020 BGA conference. His talk was titled The nature of nurture revisited: Estimating the effect of vertical transmission using structural equation modeling. The paper can be found here .

The paper " Genetic suppression of cryoprotectant toxicity " from IBGers James Cypser and Tom Johnson , with co-authors Wallace S. Chick, Gregory M. Fahy, and Garrett J. Schumacher, has won the Arthur W. Rowe Best Paper Award recognizing the most outstanding paper published annually in Cryobiology in 2019.

Congratulations to IBG Faculty Fellow Naomi Friedman who received the 2020 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience award for outstanding research. " Dr. Naomi Friedman is recognized as a world expert on executive functions - the set of cognitive processes necessary for the control of behavior - and their genetic underpinnings...

IBG Faculty Fellow Jason Boardman receives the 2020 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement presented by the Population Association of America.

Recent IBG graduate Richard Border won the Dosier/Muenzinger Award for Outstanding Contribution to Basic Research. Richard Border, who was one of IBG's Winter 2019 graduates, was nominated by his mentors Soo Rhee and Matt Keller for this award. They note that Richard is one of the “brightest, most conscientious, most...

Marissa Ehringer, an associate professor in Integrative Physiology and an IBG Faculty Fellow, was named as an Honorable Mention on the list of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program's list of outstanding faculty mentors for 2020.

Congratulations to IBG graduate, Dr. Emma Johnson, who received an Early Career Investigator Award for her presentation on "Genome-wide cross-disorder analyses of schizophrenia and alchohol use disorder" at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Los Angeles.