The 2009 International Workshop on Statistical Genetics and Methodology of Twin & Family Studies: The Advanced Course Boulder, Colorado March 2-6, 2009

Participant List

  1. Name: Francis Ali-Osman
    • Affiliation: Duke University
    • Email: alios001@mc.duke.edu
    • Research: Genetic association studies in cancer
  2. Name: Andrey Anokhin
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
    • Email: andrey@matlock.wustl.edu
    • Research: genetic psychophysiology, genetics of addiction vulnerability
  3. Name: Sumitra Balasubramanian
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
    • Email: balasubs@psychiatry.wustl.edu
    • Research:
  4. 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
  5. Name: Tim Bigdeli
    • Affiliation: VIPBG, Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Email: tbigdeli@gmail.com
    • Research: Identification of loci conferring susceptibility to schizophrenia
  6. Name: Debra Boeldt
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder
    • Email: boeldt@colorado.edu
    • Research: Etiology of disruptive behaviors in children
  7. Name: Angela Brant
    • Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: Angela.Brant@Colorado.edu
    • Research: Executive function and general cognitive ability
  8. Name: Josh Bricker
    • Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: JBricker@Colorado.edu
    • Research:
  9. Name: David Cesarini
    • Affiliation: MIT
    • Email: cesarini@mit.edu
    • Research: Behavior & molecular genetic techniques applied to study complex social phenotypes
  10. Name: High Seng Chai
    • Affiliation: Biomedical Statistics & Informatics, Mayo Clinic
    • Email: chai.high@mayo.edu
    • Research:
  11. Name: Chris Dawes
    • Affiliation: UCSD Political Science
    • Email: cdawes@ucsd.edu
    • Research: Genetic basis of political behavior and attitudes
  12. Name: Jaime Derringer
    • Affiliation: Washington University, Department of Psychology
    • Email: derringer@wustl.edu
    • Research: Substance use, genetics, twin methods
  13. Name: Alexis Duncan
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
    • Email: aduncan@wustl.edu
    • Research: Substance use disorders, eating disorders, obesity
  14. Name: Marissa Ehringer
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: marissa.ehringer@colorado.edu
    • Research: Genetics of substance abuse
  15. 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
  1. Name: Patrick Finan
    • Affiliation: Arizona State University
    • Email: patrick.finan@asu.edu
    • Research: Clinical psychology/health psychology
  2. Name: Lot Geels
    • Affiliation: Free University Amsterdam
    • Email: lm.geels@psy.vu.nl
    • Research: Addiction, personality, adolescents
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Name: Paola Gritti
    • Affiliation: San Raffaele University
    • Email: pesentigritti.paola@hsr.it
    • Research: Developmental psychopathology, behaviour genetics, neurobiology of anxiety
  6. Name: Youling Guo
    • Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong
    • Email: youlingguo@gmail.com
    • Research: Genome-wide association studies
  7. Name: Randy Haber
    • Affiliation: VA Health Care System
    • Email: randyhaber@gmail.com
    • Research: Alcoholism, family studies, religion
  8. Name: Alireza Haghighi
    • Affiliation: University of Oxford
    • Email: alireza@well.ox.ac.uk
    • Research: Medical genetics of asthma
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Name: Hon Ho
    • Affiliation: Univ of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Psychiatry Graduate Medical Education
    • Email: hon.ho@uchsc.edu
    • Research:
  13. 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
  14. Name: Daniel Howrigan
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: howrigan1980@gmail.com
    • Research: Evolutionary genetics, human genetics
  15. Name: Conrad Iyegbe
    • Affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry
    • Email: c.iyegbe@iop.kcl.ac.uk
    • Research: Genomewide association of psychosis endophenotypes, psychopathology
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Name: V.M. Kattenberg
    • Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Psychologie en Pedagogiek
    • Email: vm.kattenberg@psy.vu.nl
    • Research:
  19. Name: Kaisu Keskitalo
    • Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health
    • Email: kaisu.keskitalo@helsinki.fi
    • Research: Nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, eating behavior
  20. Name: Antti Knaapila
    • Affiliation: Monell Chemical Senses Center
    • Email: antti.knaapila@helsinki.fi
    • Research: Genetics of human olfaction (the sense of smell)
  21. 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
  22. 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)
  23. Name: Lewina Lee
    • Affiliation: University of Southern California, Department of Psychology
    • Email: lol@usc.edu
    • Research: Aging, anxiety, behavioral genetics, research methods
  24. Name: Lannie Ligthart
    • Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit, dept. Biological Psychology
    • Email: rsl.ligthart@psy.vu.nl
    • Research: Genetics of migraine
  25. Name: Levente Littvay
    • Affiliation: Central European University
    • Email: littvayl@ceu.hu
    • Research: Social and political phenotypes; stats
  26. Name: Vivia McCutcheon
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
    • Email: vmccutcheon@wustl.edu
    • Research: Women's alcoholism and recovery
  27. Name: Colter Mitchell
    • Affiliation: University of Michigan
    • Email: cmsm@umich.edu
    • Research: Gene & Environment Interactions on Health Behaviors, Family Demography, Sociology
  28. Name: Miriam Mosing
    • Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR)
    • Email: miriam.mosing@qimr.edu.au
    • Research: Aging, wellbeing, optimism, depression, anxiety
  29. Name: Melissa Munn
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: melissa.munn@colorado.edu
    • Research: Eating and related disorders
  30. Name: Madalynn Neu
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver
    • Email: madalynn.neu@ucdenver.edu
    • Research: Infants and temperament, attachment
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Name: Rohan Palmer
    • Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: Rohan.Palmer@Colorado.edu
    • Research: Developmental etiology of drug use and addiction
  34. Name: Michele Pergadia
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
    • Email: pergadim@psychiatry.wustl.edu
    • Research: Nicotine dependence and depression
  35. Name: Roseann Peterson
    • Affiliation: VCU
    • Email: peterson.roseann@gmail.com
    • Research: Methodology, complex disease (obesity, depression)
  36. 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
  37. Name: Thais Rizzi
    • Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit
    • Email: TS.Rizzi@psy.vu.nl
    • Research: Epidemiology, neurodevelopment, cognition
  38. Name: Khashayar Roohollahi
    • Affiliation:
    • Email: khashayar40@hotmail.com
    • Research: Behavioural genetics, molecular geentics, linkage studies
  39. Name: James Niels Rosenquist
    • Affiliation: Harvard University
    • Email: jrosenquist@partners.org
    • Research: Economics, psychiatry
  40. 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
  41. Name: Carolyn E Sartor, Ph.D.
    • Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
    • Email: sartorc@psychiatry.wustl.edu
    • Research: Addiction, trauma, and related psychopathology
  42. 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
  43. Name: Jaime Settle
    • Affiliation: University of California-San Diego, Department of Political Science
    • Email: jsettle@ucsd.edu
    • Research: Genetic components of political behavior
  44. Name: Susan Short
    • Affiliation: Brown University
    • Email: susan_short@brown.edu
    • Research: Social science /demography, gene/envt, epigenetics, pregnancy and child outcomes
  45. Name: Matthew A. Simonson
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado IBG
    • Email: masimonson@gmail.com
    • Research: Statistical genetics
  46. Name: Susan South
    • Affiliation: Purdue University
    • Email: ssouth@purdue.edu
    • Research: Marriage, personality, psychopathology
  47. Name: Chiara Spatola
    • Affiliation: San Raffaele University
    • Email: chiara.spatola@hsr.it
    • Research: Behaviour genetics, twin studies, dev. psychopathology, psychobiology of dyslexia
  48. Name: Simone Stahringer
    • Affiliation: MCDB, University of Colorado at Boulder
    • Email: simone.stahringer@colorado.edu
    • Research: Rotating graduate student with Ken Krauter
  49. Name: Michael Stallings
    • Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
    • Email: Michael.Stallings@Colorado.Edu
    • Research: Statistical genetics, substance abuse vulnerability
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. Name: Jean Steyaert
    • Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Child Psychiatry
    • Email: jean.steyaert@uzleuven.be
    • Research: Psychiatric genetics: autism
  53. Name: Shaoyong Su
    • Affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine
    • Email: ssu2@emory.edu
    • Research: Twin analysis, genome-wide association study
  54. Name: Clara Tang Sze Man
    • Affiliation: The University of Hong Kong
    • Email: claratsm@hku.hk
    • Research: Statistical genetics, clinical genetics
  55. Name: Sarah Tarbox
    • Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
    • Email: sat7@pitt.edu
    • Research: Markers of liability to schizophrenia
  56. Name: Jenny van Beek
    • Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, department of Biological Psychology
    • Email: JHDA.van.Beek@psy.vu.nl
    • Research: Addiction, personality
  57. 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
  58. Name: Karin Verweij
    • Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research
    • Email: karin.verweij@qimr.edu.au
    • Research: Substance use and problem behaviour
  59. Name: Hongyu Wang
    • Affiliation: Sociology Department, University of Macau
    • Email: hwang@umac.mo
    • Research:
  60. Name: Benjamin Yip
    • Affiliation: Genome Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong
    • Email: benboyip@gmail.com
    • Research: GWAS, linkage, genetic epidemiology
  61. Name: Susan Young
    • Affiliation: IBG
    • Email: Susan.Young@Colorado.edu
    • Research: Externalizing disorders, behav disinhibition, impulsivity, risk taking, exec function
  62. Name: Samuel Younkin
    • Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
    • Email: sgy6@case.edu
    • Research: Genome-wide association studies, LD block structure, regression techniques