Current Graduate Students
Front: Raven Astrom, Teresa DeCandia, Amanda Wills, Ashley Smith, Melissa Munn, Laramie Duncan, Joanna Vandever Back: Debra Boeldt, Matt Simonson, Todd Darlington, Larry Taylor, Tristan McClure-Begley, Rohan Palmer, Will Horton, Brian Cadle | |||
Name |
Program |
Research Interests | IBG Advisor |
Raven Astrom |
BG Psychology |
The genetic and environmental influences on reading ability and disability and the stability of reading difficulties and long-term
outcome. |
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Debra Boeldt |
Clinical Psychology |
Genetic and environmental influences involved in the development of childhood externalizing behaviors. |
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Angela Brant |
BG Psychology |
The etiology of executive function and general cognitive ability and their relationship to developmental psychopathology | |
Joshua Bricker |
BG Psychology |
Genetic and environmental influences on age of sexual initiation and measures of risky sexual behavior: Twin and family studies. |
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| Brian Cadle | |||
| Todd Darlington | |||
| Teresa DeCandia | |||
Laramie Duncan |
Clinical Psychology |
Genetic and
environmental influences on anxious and depressive phenotypes. Brain-derived
neurotrophic factor (BDNF) polymorphisms and psychopathology.
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| Laura Hink | |||
Renee Good |
Toxicology (UCHSC) |
Environmental and genetic influences of sub-acute neurotoxic methamphetamine exposure in periadolescent mice and behavioral drug response in adulthood. |
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| William Horton | |||
| Daniel Howrigan | BG Psychology | Genetic correlates of complex disease, population
genetic theories, and evolutionary genetics.
http://ibg.colorado.edu/~howrigan |
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Tristan McClure-Begley |
Integrative Physiology |
Regulation of neuronal nicotinic receptors and their interactions with other neurotransmitter signalling pathways. |
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| Alex Mendenhal | Thomas Johnson (ibg.colorado.edu/tj-lab)/ | ||
| Melissa Munn-Chernoff | BG Psychology | The genetic and environmental influences on eating, mood, and related disorders. | |
Rohan Palmer |
BG Psychology |
The genetic and environmental influences on psychosocial disorders as well as the persistent and transient problems leading into substance dependency. |
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| Matthew Simonson | BG Psychology | Research in human genetic variation and individual differences. Using evolutionary theory as a way to guide research in behavioral genetics, especially in relation to mental disorders. | |
| Ashley Smith | |||
| Larry Taylor | |||
| Amanda Willis | |||
| Joanna Vandever | BG Psychology | Genetic and environmental influences on cognitive and personality factors related to behavioral disinhibition, substance use disorders and antisocial behavior. | |