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====== 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
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