Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Evaluation of inbreeding depression in Holstein cattle using dense SNP markers and alternative measures of genomic inbreeding

Doug Bjelland

PhD candidate

Department of Dairy Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussion leader: Chelsie Benca

Paper: An ICA with reference approach in identification of genetic variation and associated brain networks

Discussants: Dan Gustavson & Naomi Friedman

liu_et_al._2012.pdf

Optogenetic Control of Subicular Output and Drug Seeking Behavior in Mice

Brian Cadle

PhD candidate

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussion leader: Dan Johnson

Paper: The Small World of Psychopathology
Borsboom et al., 2011 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0027407
Discussants: Matt Simonson and Ashley Smith

Discussion leader: Brooke Huibregtse
Paper: Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321.full
Discussants: Chelsie Benca

Peter Visscher

Professor and Chair

Department of Quantitative Genetics

University of Queensland Diamantina Institute and Queensland Brain Institute

Ben Neale

PhD

Program in Medical and Population Genetics

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

(Advanced Twin Workshop)

Polygenic Analysis of Genome-Wide SNP data

Matthew Simonson

PhD candidate

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussion leader: Whitney Melroy
Paper: mcvean_2012_1000genomes_nature.pdf http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7422/full/nature11632.html
Discussants: Helen Kamens

(Spring Break)

Will Horton

PhD candidate

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussion leader: Ashley Smith
Paper: Research grants: Conform and be funded
Discussants: Chelsie Benca, Dan Johnson, and Joanna Vandever

Discussion leader: Sam Dolzani
Paper: TBD

Discussants: Mike Baratta and Juan Varela

TBA

Joanna Vandever

PhD candidate

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado at Boulder

Utilizing RNA-Sequencing to Compare the Striatal Transcriptomes of Alcohol Drinking and Exercising Mice.

Todd Darlington

PhD candidate

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussion leader: Michael Baratta
Paper:“Serotonin-1A autoreceptors are necessary and sufficient for the normal formation of circuits underlying innate anxiety”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21508226

Discussants: Will Horton