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IBG graduate Evan Winiger's (Ph.D. Psychology and Neuroscience, 2021) dissertation research on the relationship between marijuana use and sleep is discussed in an article in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine.- IBG Research Associate Nomita Chhabildas received the Anne K Heinz Staff Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement.
Congratulations to IBG student Pamela Romero-Villela for winning the Graduate & Professional Student Government award for graduate excellence in research for the 2020-2021 academic year.
A special issue of the journal Behavior Genetics highlights the contributions of the The International Workshop on Statistical Genetic Methods for Human Complex Traits which has been mostly hosted by IBG over the last 30+ years. The issue includes
Research from IBG offers new insights into biology of response to treatment of psychiatric disordersIBG 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
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. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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
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
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