Recent News
Award
Al Collins, has been selected to receive the 2009 Boulder Faculty
Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work.
FBAT/PBAT SHORT COURSE
The FBAT/PBAT short course will be held on June 11th and 12th at IBG. For more information and to register, please visit the course website
Award
Tom Johnson, Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics and
Professor of Integrative Physiology, CU Boulder, has been selected as the 2009
winner of the Schober Award for research on aging awarded by the Martin-Luther
University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Prof. Johnson will give the keynote
address at their September 2009 meeting on biomarkers of aging.
Award
Prof. John Hewitt, IBG's Director, received the Dobzhansky Award for
outstanding lifetime research accomplishment in the field of behavioral
genetics. The award was conferred at the Annual Meeting of the Behavior
Genetics Association in Louisville, Kentucky, June, 2008.
Award
Prof. Greg Carey, an IBG Faculty Fellow, received the James Shields Award
for outstanding contributions to twin research. This award is conferred by
the Behavior Genetics Association and the International Society for Twin
Studies in honor of James Shields, a pioneering researcher in human
behavior genetics. The award recognizes both methodological and
substantive contributions to the study of twins and is the premier
scientific award for twin research.
Award
Jen Wilking, a graduate student in Jerry Stitzel's lab, has been awarded a NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Research Grant Awards
Mike Stallings and Matt McQueen have been awarded research grants from the CU-Boulder Vice Chancellor for Research's Innovative Seed Grant Program. This competitive program was instituted "to involve new initiatives and take investigators in creative, and sometimes high-risk/reward directions; and, have tangible payoffs in terms of future funding, scholarly or artistic impact, and development of new collaborations."
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Dr. Soo Rhee has been selected to receive one of the new Provost Faculty Achievement Awards.
Noteworthy
A research article by Matt Keller and collaborators was chosen by the American Journal of Psychiatry's editors as "particularly interesting and important" in the journal's end-of-year editorial. You can also read the full research article.
Position Announcement
The Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with a joint appointment in an appropriate academic department. Candidates who employ state-of-the-art behavioral and genetic methods to study complex behaviors in animal models are urged to apply. Applicants who have demonstrated expertise in using mouse genetic models to study complex behaviors such as substance abuse, learning and memory, psychopathologies, aging, and sleep disorders will be given special consideration. The appointee will participate in the research and teaching missions of both the Institute and his or her academic department. Minimum requirements are a PhD, MD, or equivalent terminal degree. Find out more
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Dr. Erik Willcutt recently received the APA's Division 53 (Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology) Early Career Research Award.
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