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IBG fellow Christian Hopfer , IBG faculty member Michael Stallings and Tamara Wall (MPIs) were awarded a 5-year R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to identify predictors of persistent drug abuse.

IBG faculty fellow Professor Marissa Ehringer has been chosen as a Faculty Leadership Institute fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year.

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...

IBG Faculty Fellow Soo Rhee (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Understanding the links between parental and adolescent substance use: complementary natural experiments using the children of twins design." This application uses a children of twins design in samples from Minnesota and...

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...

IBG faculty fellow Marissa Ehringer was promoted from associate professor to full professor.

IBG faculty fellow Marissa Ehringer was appointed chair of the Department of Integrative Physiology , for a term from July 2022 to June 2025.

First year IBG graduate student Sophie Breunig was awarded the Curci Scholarship from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation .

We, the members of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, denounce the racist violence and horror perpetrated on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, NY, where the murderer made racist claims and misrepresented science, including the genetic basis of behaviors and intelligence. Such violence is never justifiable under any circumstances. More generally,...