The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics pre- and post-doc awards were announced on December 12, 2024. This year, the awardees include Madhurbain Singh who received the Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research, and Shannon Cusack, PhD, who accepted the Lindon Eaves Post-Doctoral Award.
Continue reading →Luis Fernando Silva Castro de Araujo, Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and post-doctoral researcher working in the lab of Dr. Michael Neale here at VIPBG. Originally from Brazil, Luis attended medical school in Bahia, after which he moved to São Paulo to complete his residencies in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. Luis later earned a Master’s degree in Psychiatry from the State University of Campinas and a PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Melbourne. ...
Continue reading →The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics pre- and post-doc awards were announced on December 14, 2023. This year, the awardees include Mallory Stephenson, M.S., who received the Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research, and Luís Fernando Silva Castro de Araújo, M.D., Ph.D., who accepted the Lindon Eaves Post-Doctoral Award.
Continue reading →Severine Lannoy, PhD, receives the 2023 Early Career Investigator Program Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics as a post-doctoral researcher for her abstract “The Roles of Aggregate Genetic Liability and Early Adversity in Risk for Suicidal Thought and Behavior.“
Continue reading →Eva Lancaster is a post-doctoral fellow at VIPBG and an alumnus of the Quantitative Human Genetics PhD program at the VCU School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Mary Washington. During her time in graduate school, Eva worked in the labs of Drs. Roxann Roberson-Nay and Timothy York. Her dissertation concentrated on bolstering the interpretability and underlying methodology of DNA methylation studies, and she ...
Continue reading →Madhurbain Singh, from the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, received The 2nd Rising Star Award at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association for his oral presentation “Harnessing the Genetic Diversity in the UK Biobank to Enhance Genomic Discovery.“
Continue reading →The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics pre- and post-doc awards were announced on December 15, 2022. This year, the awardees include Mohammad Ahangari, who received the Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research, and Severine Lannoy, Ph.D., who accepted the Lindon Eaves Post-Doctoral Award. Mr. Ahangari has been working with Brien Riley, Ph.D., and Dr. Lannoy has been working with Alexis Edwards, Ph.D.
Continue reading →The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics pre- and post-doc awards were announced on December 16, 2021. This year, the awardees include Terrell Hicks, who received the Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research, and Chelsea Sawyers Rooney, Ph.D., who accepted the Lindon Eaves Post-Doctoral Award. Mr. Hicks has been working with Ananda Amstadter, Ph.D., and Dr. Rooney has been working with Jim Bjork, Ph.D.
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The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics is pleased to invite applications for postdoctoral training with a focus on mental health. The Institute offers a rich interdisciplinary training environment. Institute faculty include leaders in the fields of behavioral and psychiatric genetics and represent a wide range of scientific backgrounds from molecular and statistical genetics to epidemiology, psychology, and psychiatry.
Currently funded research at VIPBG includes molecular-genetic studies of schizophrenia, major depression, anxiety and panic disorders, PTSD, substance use disorders ...
Continue reading →The Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics pre- and post-doc awards were announced on December 16, 2020. This year, the awardees include Eva Lancaster, who received the Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research, and Amanda Gentry, Ph.D., who accepted the Lindon Eaves Post-Doctoral Award. Ms. Lancaster has been working with Roseann Peterson, Ph.D., and Dr. Gentry has been working with Ananda Amstadter, Ph.D.
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