====== The 2009 International Workshop on Statistical Genetics and Methodology of Twin & Family Studies: The Advanced Course Boulder, Colorado March 2-6, 2009 ====== ==== Participant List ==== - Name: Francis Ali-Osman * Affiliation: Duke University * Email: alios001@mc.duke.edu * Research: Genetic association studies in cancer - Name: Andrey Anokhin * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine * Email: andrey@matlock.wustl.edu * Research: genetic psychophysiology, genetics of addiction vulnerability -Name: Sumitra Balasubramanian * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: balasubs@psychiatry.wustl.edu * Research: -Name: Jonathan Beauchamp * Affiliation: Harvard University (now visiting Princeton for the Spring semester) * Email: beauchamp.jonathan@gmail.com * Research: Intersection of economics, genetics, neuroscience, statistics -Name: Tim Bigdeli * Affiliation: VIPBG, Virginia Commonwealth University * Email: tbigdeli@gmail.com * Research: Identification of loci conferring susceptibility to schizophrenia -Name: Debra Boeldt * Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder * Email: boeldt@colorado.edu * Research: Etiology of disruptive behaviors in children -Name: Angela Brant * Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: Angela.Brant@Colorado.edu * Research: Executive function and general cognitive ability -Name: Josh Bricker * Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: JBricker@Colorado.edu * Research: -Name: David Cesarini * Affiliation: MIT * Email: cesarini@mit.edu * Research: Behavior & molecular genetic techniques applied to study complex social phenotypes -Name: High Seng Chai * Affiliation: Biomedical Statistics & Informatics, Mayo Clinic * Email: chai.high@mayo.edu * Research: -Name: Chris Dawes * Affiliation: UCSD Political Science * Email: cdawes@ucsd.edu * Research: Genetic basis of political behavior and attitudes -Name: Jaime Derringer * Affiliation: Washington University, Department of Psychology * Email: derringer@wustl.edu * Research: Substance use, genetics, twin methods -Name: Alexis Duncan * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: aduncan@wustl.edu * Research: Substance use disorders, eating disorders, obesity -Name: Marissa Ehringer * Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu * Research: Genetics of substance abuse -Name: Samantha Fahy * Affiliation: King's College, Dept of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, St Thomas' Hospital * Email: samantha.fahy@kcl.ac.uk * Research: Genetics and epidemiology of the aging eye -Name: Patrick Finan * Affiliation: Arizona State University * Email: patrick.finan@asu.edu * Research: Clinical psychology/health psychology -Name: Lot Geels * Affiliation: Free University Amsterdam * Email: lm.geels@psy.vu.nl * Research: Addiction, personality, adolescents -Name: Julia Grant * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: grantj@psychiatry.wustl.edu * Research: Developmental behavioral genetics, alcohol and cannabis use/abuse/dependence -Name: Corina Greven * Affiliation: Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Ctr, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College * Email: Corina.Greven@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Research: Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, reading disability -Name: Paola Gritti * Affiliation: San Raffaele University * Email: pesentigritti.paola@hsr.it * Research: Developmental psychopathology, behaviour genetics, neurobiology of anxiety -Name: Youling Guo * Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong * Email: youlingguo@gmail.com * Research: Genome-wide association studies -Name: Randy Haber * Affiliation: VA Health Care System * Email: randyhaber@gmail.com * Research: Alcoholism, family studies, religion -Name: Alireza Haghighi * Affiliation: University of Oxford * Email: alireza@well.ox.ac.uk * Research: Medical genetics of asthma -Name: Ken Hanscombe * Affiliation: Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Ctr, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College * Email: Ken.Hanscombe@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Research: Gene-environment interplay -Name: Pete Hatemi * Affiliation: VIPBG, Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs, VA Commonwealth University * Email: phatemi@gmail.com * Research: Political behavior, mate selection, voting, intensity -Name: Emmeline Hill * Affiliation: Univ College Dublin, Vet Sciences Ctr School of Agriculture, Food Science & Vet Med * Email: Emmeline.Hill@ucd.ie * Research: Genetic associations w/ athletic performance phenotypes in Thoroughbred racehorses -Name: Hon Ho * Affiliation: Univ of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Psychiatry Graduate Medical Education * Email: hon.ho@uchsc.edu * Research: -Name: Karla Holmboe * Affiliation: University of London, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development * Email: karla.holmboe@gmail.com * Research: Genetics of early childhood attention in relation to later behavior problems -Name: Daniel Howrigan * Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: howrigan1980@gmail.com * Research: Evolutionary genetics, human genetics -Name: Conrad Iyegbe * Affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry * Email: c.iyegbe@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Research: Genomewide association of psychosis endophenotypes, psychopathology -Name: Joy Jeffrey * Affiliation: Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado HSC * Email: joy.jeffrey@ucdenver.edu * Research: Coordinator of twin study for type 1 diabetes; molecular biology, genetics, adv. stats -Name: Guolian Kang * Affiliation: The University of Alabama at Birmingham * Email: gkang@ms.soph.uab.edu * Research: QTL mapping, statistical & genetic theory, linkage & association analysis -Name: V.M. Kattenberg * Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Psychologie en Pedagogiek * Email: vm.kattenberg@psy.vu.nl * Research: -Name: Kaisu Keskitalo * Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health * Email: kaisu.keskitalo@helsinki.fi * Research: Nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, eating behavior -Name: Antti Knaapila * Affiliation: Monell Chemical Senses Center * Email: antti.knaapila@helsinki.fi * Research: Genetics of human olfaction (the sense of smell) -Name: Gun Peggy Knudsen * Affiliation: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Mental Health * Email: Gun.Peggy.Knudsen@fhi.no * Research: Genetics, twin studies, molecular genetics, GWAS -Name: Mats Larsson * Affiliation: $(0!;(Brebro University, Ctr for Dev Research, Dept of Behavioural, Social & Legal Sciences * Email: mats.larsson@oru.se * Research: Personality, IQ (Current postdoc, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia) -Name: Lewina Lee * Affiliation: University of Southern California, Department of Psychology * Email: lol@usc.edu * Research: Aging, anxiety, behavioral genetics, research methods -Name: Lannie Ligthart * Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit, dept. Biological Psychology * Email: rsl.ligthart@psy.vu.nl * Research: Genetics of migraine -Name: Levente Littvay * Affiliation: Central European University * Email: littvayl@ceu.hu * Research: Social and political phenotypes; stats -Name: Vivia McCutcheon * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: vmccutcheon@wustl.edu * Research: Women's alcoholism and recovery -Name: Colter Mitchell * Affiliation: University of Michigan * Email: cmsm@umich.edu * Research: Gene & Environment Interactions on Health Behaviors, Family Demography, Sociology -Name: Miriam Mosing * Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) * Email: miriam.mosing@qimr.edu.au * Research: Aging, wellbeing, optimism, depression, anxiety -Name: Melissa Munn * Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: melissa.munn@colorado.edu * Research: Eating and related disorders -Name: Madalynn Neu * Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver * Email: madalynn.neu@ucdenver.edu * Research: Infants and temperament, attachment -Name: T. Caitlin O'Brien * Affiliation: Arizona State University, Department of Psychology * Email: tcobrien@asu.edu * Research: Behavior and molecular genetic studies of resilience and temperament in twin children -Name: Alfredo Ortega-Alonso * Affiliation: Dept Health Sciences, Univ of Jyvaskyla & Dept of Public Health, Univ of Helsinki * Email: alfredo.ortega@sport.jyu.fi * Research: Physical activity, Nutrition, Obesity, Metabolism, Cognition, Aging -Name: Rohan Palmer * Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: Rohan.Palmer@Colorado.edu * Research: Developmental etiology of drug use and addiction -Name: Michele Pergadia * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: pergadim@psychiatry.wustl.edu * Research: Nicotine dependence and depression -Name: Roseann Peterson * Affiliation: VCU * Email: peterson.roseann@gmail.com * Research: Methodology, complex disease (obesity, depression) -Name: Elizabeth Prom-Wormley * Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Virginia Inst for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics * Email: ecprom@vcu.edu * Research: Methylation, GWAS, epigenetics, gene-environ interaction using twin & family designs -Name: Thais Rizzi * Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit * Email: TS.Rizzi@psy.vu.nl * Research: Epidemiology, neurodevelopment, cognition -Name: Khashayar Roohollahi * Affiliation: * Email: khashayar40@hotmail.com * Research: Behavioural genetics, molecular geentics, linkage studies -Name: James Niels Rosenquist * Affiliation: Harvard University * Email: jrosenquist@partners.org * Research: Economics, psychiatry -Name: Euijung Ryu * Affiliation: Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic * Email: ryu.euijung@mayo.edu * Research: Statistical methodology for family data, case-control for GWAS study -Name: Carolyn E Sartor, Ph.D. * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine * Email: sartorc@psychiatry.wustl.edu * Research: Addiction, trauma, and related psychopathology -Name: Andrew (A.J.) Schrage * Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry * Email: schragea@psychiatry.wustl.edu * Research: Statistical genetics; family-based association, family-based GWAS and linkage -Name: Jaime Settle * Affiliation: University of California-San Diego, Department of Political Science * Email: jsettle@ucsd.edu * Research: Genetic components of political behavior -Name: Susan Short * Affiliation: Brown University * Email: susan_short@brown.edu * Research: Social science /demography, gene/envt, epigenetics, pregnancy and child outcomes -Name: Matthew A. Simonson * Affiliation: University of Colorado IBG * Email: masimonson@gmail.com * Research: Statistical genetics -Name: Susan South * Affiliation: Purdue University * Email: ssouth@purdue.edu * Research: Marriage, personality, psychopathology -Name: Chiara Spatola * Affiliation: San Raffaele University * Email: chiara.spatola@hsr.it * Research: Behaviour genetics, twin studies, dev. psychopathology, psychobiology of dyslexia -Name: Simone Stahringer * Affiliation: MCDB, University of Colorado at Boulder * Email: simone.stahringer@colorado.edu * Research: Rotating graduate student with Ken Krauter -Name: Michael Stallings * Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: Michael.Stallings@Colorado.Edu * Research: Statistical genetics, substance abuse vulnerability -Name: Jason Stein * Affiliation: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine * Email: steinja@ucla.edu * Research: Identifying how brain structure varies with genetics using scans and genotype info -Name: Sarah (Holly) Stephens * Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics * Email: sarah.stephens@uchsc.edu * Research: Biostats, statistical genetics, association studies with case-control & family members -Name: Jean Steyaert * Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Child Psychiatry * Email: jean.steyaert@uzleuven.be * Research: Psychiatric genetics: autism -Name: Shaoyong Su * Affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine * Email: ssu2@emory.edu * Research: Twin analysis, genome-wide association study -Name: Clara Tang Sze Man * Affiliation: The University of Hong Kong * Email: claratsm@hku.hk * Research: Statistical genetics, clinical genetics -Name: Sarah Tarbox * Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh * Email: sat7@pitt.edu * Research: Markers of liability to schizophrenia -Name: Jenny van Beek * Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, department of Biological Psychology * Email: JHDA.van.Beek@psy.vu.nl * Research: Addiction, personality -Name: Niels van der Aa * Affiliation: VU University Amsterdam * Email: n.van.der.aa@psy.vu.nl * Research: Interplay between genes and environment on adolescents' wellbeing -Name: Karin Verweij * Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research * Email: karin.verweij@qimr.edu.au * Research: Substance use and problem behaviour -Name: Hongyu Wang * Affiliation: Sociology Department, University of Macau * Email: hwang@umac.mo * Research: -Name: Benjamin Yip * Affiliation: Genome Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong * Email: benboyip@gmail.com * Research: GWAS, linkage, genetic epidemiology -Name: Susan Young * Affiliation: IBG * Email: Susan.Young@Colorado.edu * Research: Externalizing disorders, behav disinhibition, impulsivity, risk taking, exec function -Name: Samuel Younkin * Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University * Email: sgy6@case.edu * Research: Genome-wide association studies, LD block structure, regression techniques