Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG)
The Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) at University of Colorado Boulder focuses on genetics of behavior, psychopathology, brain function, and more.
- New paper out today in Nature from IBG faculty @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social and the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. They take a multi-method approach to parse shared and unique genetic signal across >5 million controls and >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- IBG is saying a fond farewell to former postdoc @isyfoote.bsky.social. Isy was an invaluable asset to the institute in her time here. She is a Wellcome Trust Fellow and new faculty Queen Mary University of London. We can't wait to see what comes next for this exceptionally bright scholar 🧠🧬!
- Check out this write-up in CU Boulder Today about IBG Faculty Member @molaslab.bsky.social and graduate student Elora Williams recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry on the brain's response to fear: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...
- University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
- Successful applicants will have teaching interest in undergraduate research methods and/or statistics.
- Congratulations to IBG Research Professor Dr. Daniel Gustavson for receiving honorable mention as an outstanding postdoc mentor at CU Boulder. Congrats Dan! www.colorado.edu/postdoctoral...
- Be sure to check out this new publication from @molaslab.bsky.social!!!
- 🎊So excited to share our new publication! We identified a novel circuit underlying threat processing and adaptive learning. Deeply grateful to @bbrfoundation.bsky.social and all the co-authors who made this possible! @ibg.colorado.edu @umasschan.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New work in Nature Genetics from IBG members lead by @isyfoote.bsky.social (along with @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social) examining different measures of frailty using Genomic SEM. Findings reveal six genomic factors with unique biological pathways and clinical correlates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Check out this new work from IBG graduate student @breunigsophie.bsky.social that applies Genomic SEM to examine the relationship between genomic factors for immune-mediated diseases and psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🚨📰Check out new CEO magazine interview with Senior Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Massimo Ruzzene on his vision for “research to real-world impact” at CU Boulder and the ways our campus reflects a flagship research university: www.theceomagazine.com/business/exe...
- 🚨📰New paper from IBG Member Dr. Chandra Reynolds and collaborators that finds prolonged sitting impacts heart health and aging in the Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development and cognitive aging (CATSLife), even in young adults: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- A write up in CU Boulder Today can also be found here: colorado.edu/today/2024/1.... Congrats to Dr. Reynolds and the rest of this team on this important piece of work!
- Check out this University of Colorado newsletter that describes work being done by IBG faculty member @dangustavson.bsky.social using the VETSA twin dataset to examine genetic and environmental influences on cognitive decline. www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
- 📰 New paper out in Nature senior-authored by IBG director Matt Keller describing the scientific value of family-based sampling in biobanks. This includes estimating direct genetic effects 🧬 that have causal interpretation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🚨Check out this new molecular autism article first-authored by IBG graduate student @lukas-schaffer.bsky.social that examines the genetic signal unique to autism spectrum disorder when removing genetic overlap with ADHD. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
- 📰Results reveal that the genetic signal unique to autism spectrum disorder significantly overlaps with internalizing disorders and cognitive traits, along with functional annotations and genes associated with this signal. 🧬
- 🚨Check out this recent paper 📰 from IBG graduate student Lydia Rader that finds chronic pain in young adults is related to updating working memory deficits and and that the relationship appears genetic 🧬https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/9900/chronic_pain_is_specifically_associated_with.675.aspx
- 🚨IBG is hiring for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor! Candidates should have a background in neurogenetics, high-content genomics, experience with iPSC-derived neurons and glia and neural organoids, and expertise in neurodegeneration. More details here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
- IBG is taking applications for our next Director of Finance and Administration. This position coordinates and supervises the administrative, financial, and research activities of the Institute. Applications are due by October 13, 2024. For more information, please see link below: t.co/UgfpXXpNz4
- Link below for a postdoc position for an NIH project evaluating whether music engagement is protective for adolescent substance use. The project is led by @dangustavson.bsky.social and focuses on twin/family and polygenic score analyses of existing datasets. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
