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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
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
16. Name: Patrick Finan Affiliation: Arizona State University Email: patrick.finan@asu.edu Research: Clinical psychology/health psychology
17. Name: Lot Geels Affiliation: Free University Amsterdam Email: lm.geels@psy.vu.nl Research: Addiction, personality, adolescents
18. 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
19. 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
20. Name: Paola Gritti Affiliation: San Raffaele University Email: pesentigritti.paola@hsr.it Research: Developmental psychopathology, behaviour genetics, neurobiology of anxiety
21. Name: Youling Guo Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong Email: youlingguo@gmail.com Research: Genome-wide association studies
22. Name: Randy Haber Affiliation: VA Health Care System Email: randyhaber@gmail.com Research: Alcoholism, family studies, religion
23. Name: Alireza Haghighi Affiliation: University of Oxford Email: alireza@well.ox.ac.uk Research: Medical genetics of asthma
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. Name: Hon Ho Affiliation: Univ of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Psychiatry Graduate Medical Education Email: hon.ho@uchsc.edu Research:
28. 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
29. Name: Daniel Howrigan Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics Email: howrigan1980@gmail.com Research: Evolutionary genetics, human genetics
30. Name: Conrad Iyegbe Affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry Email: c.iyegbe@iop.kcl.ac.uk Research: Genomewide association of psychosis endophenotypes, psychopathology
31. 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
32. 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
33. Name: V.M. Kattenberg Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Psychologie en Pedagogiek Email: vm.kattenberg@psy.vu.nl Research:
34. Name: Kaisu Keskitalo Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health Email: kaisu.keskitalo@helsinki.fi Research: Nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, eating behavior
35. Name: Antti Knaapila Affiliation: Monell Chemical Senses Center Email: antti.knaapila@helsinki.fi Research: Genetics of human olfaction (the sense of smell)
36. 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
37. Name: Mats Larsson Affiliation: Örebro 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)
38. Name: Lewina Lee Affiliation: University of Southern California, Department of Psychology Email: lol@usc.edu Research: Aging, anxiety, behavioral genetics, research methods
39. Name: Lannie Ligthart Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit, dept. Biological Psychology Email: rsl.ligthart@psy.vu.nl Research: Genetics of migraine
40. Name: Levente Littvay Affiliation: Central European University Email: littvayl@ceu.hu Research: Social and political phenotypes; stats
41. Name: Vivia McCutcheon Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Email: vmccutcheon@wustl.edu Research: Women's alcoholism and recovery
42. Name: Colter Mitchell Affiliation: University of Michigan Email: cmsm@umich.edu Research: Gene & Environment Interactions on Health Behaviors, Family Demography, Sociology
43. Name: Miriam Mosing Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) Email: miriam.mosing@qimr.edu.au Research: Aging, wellbeing, optimism, depression, anxiety
44. Name: Melissa Munn Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics Email: melissa.munn@colorado.edu Research: Eating and related disorders
45. Name: Madalynn Neu Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver Email: madalynn.neu@ucdenver.edu Research: Infants and temperament, attachment
46. 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
47. 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
48. Name: Rohan Palmer Affiliation: Institute for Behavioral Genetics Email: Rohan.Palmer@Colorado.edu Research: Developmental etiology of drug use and addiction
49. Name: Michele Pergadia Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Email: pergadim@psychiatry.wustl.edu Research: Nicotine dependence and depression
50. Name: Roseann Peterson Affiliation: VCU Email: peterson.roseann@gmail.com Research: Methodology, complex disease (obesity, depression)
51. 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
52. Name: Thais Rizzi Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Email: TS.Rizzi@psy.vu.nl Research: Epidemiology, neurodevelopment, cognition
53. Name: Khashayar Roohollahi Affiliation: Email: khashayar40@hotmail.com Research: Behavioural genetics, molecular geentics, linkage studies
54. Name: James Niels Rosenquist Affiliation: Harvard University Email: jrosenquist@partners.org Research: Economics, psychiatry
55. 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
56. Name: Carolyn E Sartor, Ph.D. Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Email: sartorc@psychiatry.wustl.edu Research: Addiction, trauma, and related psychopathology
57. 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
58. Name: Jaime Settle Affiliation: University of California-San Diego, Department of Political Science Email: jsettle@ucsd.edu Research: Genetic components of political behavior
59. Name: Susan Short Affiliation: Brown University Email: susan_short@brown.edu Research: Social science /demography, gene/envt, epigenetics, pregnancy and child outcomes
60. Name: Matthew A. Simonson Affiliation: University of Colorado IBG Email: masimonson@gmail.com Research: Statistical genetics
61. Name: Susan South Affiliation: Purdue University Email: ssouth@purdue.edu Research: Marriage, personality, psychopathology
62. Name: Chiara Spatola Affiliation: San Raffaele University Email: chiara.spatola@hsr.it Research: Behaviour genetics, twin studies, dev. psychopathology, psychobiology of dyslexia
63. Name: Simone Stahringer Affiliation: MCDB, University of Colorado at Boulder Email: simone.stahringer@colorado.edu Research: Rotating graduate student with Ken Krauter
64. Name: Michael Stallings Affiliation: University of Colorado, Institute for Behavioral Genetics Email: Michael.Stallings@Colorado.Edu Research: Statistical genetics, substance abuse vulnerability
65. 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
66. 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
67. Name: Jean Steyaert Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Child Psychiatry Email: jean.steyaert@uzleuven.be Research: Psychiatric genetics: autism
68. Name: Shaoyong Su Affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine Email: ssu2@emory.edu Research: Twin analysis, genome-wide association study
69. Name: Clara Tang Sze Man Affiliation: The University of Hong Kong Email: claratsm@hku.hk Research: Statistical genetics, clinical genetics
70. Name: Sarah Tarbox Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Email: sat7@pitt.edu Research: Markers of liability to schizophrenia
71. Name: Jenny van Beek Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, department of Biological Psychology Email: JHDA.van.Beek@psy.vu.nl Research: Addiction, personality
72. 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
73. Name: Karin Verweij Affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research Email: karin.verweij@qimr.edu.au Research: Substance use and problem behaviour
74. Name: Hongyu Wang Affiliation: Sociology Department, University of Macau Email: hwang@umac.mo Research:
75. Name: Benjamin Yip Affiliation: Genome Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong Email: benboyip@gmail.com Research: GWAS, linkage, genetic epidemiology
76. Name: Susan Young Affiliation: IBG Email: Susan.Young@Colorado.edu Research: Externalizing disorders, behav disinhibition, impulsivity, risk taking, exec function
77. Name: Samuel Younkin Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University Email: sgy6@case.edu Research: Genome-wide association studies, LD block structure, regression techniques
