IBG Graduate Students

• Raven Astrom
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  The genetic and environmental influences on reading ability and
  disability and the stability of reading difficulties and long-term
  outcome.

• L. Cinnamon Bidwell
  Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
  Ms. Bidwell is interested in the relationships between genetic and neuropsychological pathways in the etiology of attentional disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia. She is currently a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology training program.
  

• Joshua Bricker
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  Genetic and environmental influences on age of sexual initiation and measures of risky sexual behavior: Twin and family studies.
  

• Kimberly Brodsky
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  Kim is in her third year in the Clinical Psychology training program. After completing her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked at the Henry H. Wheeler Brain Imaging Center on studies that applied functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques. For her Master's project she is comparing the neurocognitive correlates of childhood ADHD and schizophrenia in collaboration with researchers at the Center for Schizophrenia Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

• Victoria E. Cosgrove
  Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
  Ms. Cosgrove is interested in personality constructs and their genetic relationship to comorbidity between adolescent internalizing and externalizing disorders. She is currently a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology training program.

• Jennifer Drapeau
  Ph.D. program, Integrative Physiology.
  The molecular and cellular characterization of a naturally occurring polymorphism in the nicotinic receptor ?4 subunit gene to establish how the polymorphism affects receptor function and subsequently sensitivity to nicotine.

• Angela Friend
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  Ms. Friend is interested in the genetic and environmental influences on reading and reading related skills. She is currently a second-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology program.

• Detre Godinez
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  Genetic and environmental influences on the executive system and its relationship with substance abuse and other comorbid disorders.

• Renee Good
  Ph.D. program, Toxicology.
  Environmental and genetic influences of sub-acute neurotoxic methamphetamine exposure in periadolescent mice and behavioral drug response in adulthood.

• Jesse Hawke
  Ph.D. program, Psychology.
  Differential genetic etiology of reading difficulties as a function of age and gender in the Colorado Twin Study of Reading Disability.

• Melissa Munn
  Ph. D. program, Psychology.
  The genetic and environmental influences on eating, mood, and related disorders.

• Rohan Palmer
  Ph. D. program, Psychology.
  Mr. Palmer is interested in the genetic and environmental influences on psychosocial disorders as well as the persistent and transient problems leading into substance dependency.

• Clarissa Parker
  Ph.D. program, Neuroscience.
  The genetic and environmental determinants of substance abuse and related phenotypes such as impulsivity, aggression, and anxiety, with an emphasis on the interaction between alcohol and the HPA axis, and individual differences in response to alcohol and stress

• Lara Ray
  Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology
  Etiology, prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Specifically, genetic and psychosocial factors related to the development of alcohol abuse and dependence. Ms. Ray is conducting a pharmacogenetics study for her dissertation, in which she will examine genetic factors that may influence responses to naltrexone, a drug used to treat alcohol dependence.

• Isabel Schlaepfer
  Ph.D. program, Integrative Physiology.
  The study of candidate genes for ethanol drinking preference with special interest in syntaxin binding proteins and the association between alcohol and diabetes risk.

• Jay Schulz-Heik
  Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
  Mr. Schulz-Heik is interested in genetic and environmental mediation of the effects of parenting behaviors on children's development. He is currently a second-year graduate student in the clinical psychology training program.

• Laura Sobik
  Ph.D. program, Clinical Psychology.
  The genetic influences of cue-elicited craving for food.