Seminars & Lectures: 2025-2026 | Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

id	Date	Seminar Title	Presenter	Email Address	User eID
602	2025-09-04	Research Program Updates.	Kenneth Kendler	kenneth.kendler@vcuhealth.org	kendler
603	2025-09-11	Disorder Liability and Age at Onset.	Michael Neale	michael.neale@vcuhealth.org	neale
604	2025-09-18	Fine-mapping GWAS and related topics.	Silviu-Alin Bacanu	silviu-alin.bacanu@vcuhealth.org	sabacanu
605	2025-09-25	First World Problems: Life in the Era of Big Data.	Brien Riley	brien.riley@vcuhealth.org	bpriley
606	2025-10-02	Trajectories to Substance Use: Transmissible Liability, Musicality & Reward Sensitivity.	Hermine Maes	hermine.maes@vcu.health.org	hmaes
607	2025-10-09	Traumatic Stress Research Project Updates.	Ananda Amstadter	ananda.amstadter@vcuhealth.org	abamstadter
608	2025-10-16	A Few Past, Present and Future PTSD-Substance Use Projects.	Kaitlin Bountress	kaitlin.bountress@vcuhealth.org	kebountress
609	2025-10-23	Advances in Causal Inference and Genetic Nurturing: Integrating Mendelian Randomization, Direction of Causation, and Polygenic Risk Scores in Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.	Nathan Gillespie	nathan.gillespie@vcuhealth.org	ngillespie
610	2025-10-30	Measurement of an Emerging Phenotype	Ruth Brown-Ennis	ruth.brown@vcuhealth.org	brownrc3
611	2025-11-06	Project Updates: Suicidal Behavior.	Alexis Edwards	alexis.edwards@vcuhealth.org	aedwards5
612	2025-11-13	DoD Grant updates: TBI, PTSD, and AUD genetic and phenotypic associations in a military sample. Background paper.	Christina Sheerin-Smith	christina.sheerin@vcuhealth.org	csheerin
613	2025-11-20	The All of Us sequencing data analysis: updates.	Hoang Nguyen	tanhoang.nguyen@vcuhealth.org	thnguyen2
614	2025-11-27	* NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING *
615	2025-12-04	Neural exosomes: Sorting Fact from Fantasy.	Dana Lapato	dana.lapato@vcuhealth.org	lapatodm
616	2025-12-11	* NO SEMINAR - HOLIDAY PARTY *
617	2025-12-18	* NO SEMINAR - WINTER BREAK *
618	2025-12-25	* NO SEMINAR - WINTER BREAK *
619	2026-01-01	* NO SEMINAR - NEW YEAR'S DAY *
620	2026-01-08	CIGMA2 Identifies Biologically Cell-Type-Specific eQTLs.	Minhui Chen	minhui.chen@vcuhealth.org	chenm17
621	2026-01-15	Examining Heterogeneity in the Genetic Architecture of Substance Use Disorders.	Jared Balbona	jared.balbona@vcuhealth.org	balbonaj
622	2026-01-22	Investigating the correlates and impact of suicidal behavior: Insights from the Swedish registries.	Mallory Stephenson	mallory.stephenson@vcuhealth.org	stephensonm2
623	2026-01-29	* POSTPONED - TO BE RESCHEDULED *
624	2026-02-05	Neuro-cognitive systems that, when dysfunctional, increase aggression risk and the potential for translation into clinical tools.	James Blair (Guest Speaker)
625	2026-02-12	Monitoring cognitive decline with pTau217	Luis de Araujo	luis.araujo@vcuhealth.org	silvacastrl
626	2026-02-19	Genetic and Cultural Transmission to Music Engagement and Longitudinal Associations Between Psychiatric Symptoms and Substance Use in Adolescence	Mei-Hsin Su	meihsin.su@vcuhealth.org	sum5
627	2026-02-26	Multi-modal AI Leveraging Patient-Similarity and Clinical Temporality for Disease Prognosis.	Preetam Ghosh
628	2026-03-05	Thinking Through Risk, Benefit, and Social Responsibility in Genomics	Daphne Martschenko (GROW Invited Speaker)
629	2026-03-12	Project Updates: Multimodel Inference in Twin Models and Screen Time Association with Childhood Internalizing.	Matthew Roth	matthew.roth@vcuhealth.org	rothm3
630	2026-03-19	Family Risk Scores as Prospective Predictors of New-Onset Internalizing and Functional Disorders: Longitudinal Evidence from the Lifelines Cohort.	Mykhailo Zakharin	michael.zakharin@vcuhealth.org	zakharinm2
631	2026-03-26	A Walk-through of Dynamic Causal Modeling in Neuroimaging Data.	Arman Kulkarni	arman.kulkarni@vcuhealth.org	kulkarnia4
632	2026-04-02	Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopment: A Longitudinal Twin Study of White Matter Microstructure.	Kiran Dhakal	kiran.dhakal@vcuhealth.org	dhakalk
633	2026-04-09	Neural Dimensions of Anxiety: Variability and Overlap.	Chelsea Sawyers-Rooney	chelsea.sawyers@vcuhealth.org	sawyersc
634	2026-04-16	Utilizing rare variant approaches to uncover the genetic architecture of PTSD and ANX.	Sydney Kramer	kramers4@vcu.edu	kramers4
635	2026-04-23	Utilizing Whole Genome Sequencing in Schizophrenia Multiplex Families for Variant and Gene Discovery.	Saeed Farajzadeh Valilou	farajzadehs@vcu.edu	farajzadehs
636	2026-04-30	Genetics of Complex Diseases: Understanding Mechanisms and Developing Actionable Healthcare Solutions.	Faculty Candidate: Dongbing Lai
637	2026-05-07	Closing the Gap: Novel Statistical Approaches for Recovering Missing Heritability in Complex Psychiatric Disorders.	Masoud Edizadeh	edizadehm@vcu.edu	edizadehm
638	2026-05-14	Notari: Understanding Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. \|\| Lo: Investigating the Comorbidity between Substance Use Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms Using Data from the Taiwan Biobank.	Emily Notari / Chao-Yi Lo
639	2026-05-21	Chow: Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Panel Modeling of Music Engagement and Externalizing Behaviors. \|\| Mullins: Model Development for Estimating Variance Components in Potentially Censored Populations.	Jordan Chow / Lanie Mullins
640	2026-05-28	Amala K. S.: Trans-eQTL mapping in gene sets identifies network effects of genetic variants. \|\| Arastonejad: Integrating phenotypic and whole-genome sequencing to analyze complex traits: The case of anxiety disorders.	Mahshid Arastonejad / Amala K. S.
641	2026-06-04	Development of Machine Learning Models and Statistical Genetics Methods for Psychiatric Disorder Research.	Mohammed Hassan	mohammed.hassan@vcuhealth.org	hassanm12
642	2026-06-11	VIPBG/CIMR Joint Mixer