Featured Student: Philip Vinh

Philip Vinhis a fifth-year PhD candidate at VIPBG working in the lab of Dr. Michael Neale. He grew up in the town of Windsor, Connecticut and attended the University of Connecticut, where he earned degrees in Biology and Chemistry. Before joining the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics in 2020, Philip conducted research in a chemistry lab studying environmentally friendly alternatives to common chemicals. As a project coordinator, he also directed ...

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OpenMx Master Class – Nov. 14-16, 2024

The first OpenMx Master Class is aimed to improve the skills of individuals who are already familiar with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and want to improve their understanding and capability to specify and fit advanced SEMs. We will also cover the OpenMx philosophy and how it differs from other SEM programs in terms of fit functions, expectation functions, multiple groups, definition variables, constraints, confidence intervals, standard errors, bootstrapping, compute plans, and simulations.

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Featured Postdoc: Luis Araujo

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.  ...

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The 2023 VIPBG Excellence Awards Announced

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.

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Featured Student: Yi (Daniel) Zhou

Daniel Zhou is a fourth-year MD/PhD student in the Integrative Life Sciences – Behavioral & Statistical Genetics concentration at VIPBG. He works in the lab of Dr. Michael Neale, Distinguished Professor, whose research focuses on statistical modeling software for brain imaging, substance use, and psychiatric disorders. Daniel was born in Anyang, China, and he moved to Canada with his family when he was five years old. With the goal of becoming a ...

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Marc Kealhofer Finalist in the 2023 Early Career Investigator Program

Marc Kealhofer, Graduate Student at the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, is a Poster Presentation Finalists in the 2023 Early Career Investigator Program Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics for his abstract “Dissecting the Relationship Between Major Depressive Disorder and Cognition Using Genetics.

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Mallory Stephenson 2023 International Summit on Suicide Research Finalist

Mallory Stephenson, Graduate Student at the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, is a Poster Presentation Finalists at the IASR/AFSP 2023 International Summit on Suicide Research for her abstract “Clarifying the Relationship Between Painful and Provocative Events and Risk for Suicide Attempt in a Swedish National Sample.

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