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IBG and Psychology and Neuroscience assistant professor Andrew Grotzinger is lead author on a Nature paper looking at the commonality in genetics of psychiatric disorders. The study covers 14 disorders with over 1 million subjects, and finds that the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders comes from 238 pleiotropic loci. The disorders show a high level of polygenic overlap, and very few disorder specific loci.

IBG Associate Professor Charles Hoeffer has been appointed a Research & Innovation Office faculty fellow for 2026. The RIO faculty fellow program is designed to give faculty the tools to be interdisciplinary and creative leaders, and increase the impact of CU º£½ÇÉçÇø as a research and teaching institution.

As part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has selected IBG Assistant Research Professor Dan Gustavson for honorable mention in the category of outstanding postdoc mentors of the year at CU.

IBG graduate student Elora Williams is first author on a paper from Professor Sussanna Molas's lab in the journal Molecular Psychiatry which examines the role in mice of GABAergic neurons in the dysregulation of threat response when threats lack real danger.

IBG assistant research professor Dan Gustavson was interviewed on the ABC Radio National Health Report podcast about predicting adult cognitive skills from childhood genetic and environmental influences.

Ryan Bruellman, IBG faculty member Chandra Reynolds' student at the University of California Riverside, is first author on a paper using IBG's CATSLIFE data which suggests that prolonged sitting decreases heart and metabolic health even in young people. These findings have received national press attention and will be featured on an episode of NPR's Science Friday.

A new paper published inÌýNatureÌýwith Matthew Keller as senior author explores the potential of family-based sampling for future biobanks, emphasizing its advantages in uncovering causal relationships and minimizing confounding factors in

At the 2024 BGA meeting in London, UK, Lukas Schaffer won the Outstanding Associate Member Oral Presentation Award for his talk titled "Genetic Pathways for Autism Spectrum Disorder Unique of ADHD at Multiple Levels of Biological Analysis."

Naomi Friedman has been recognized as one of 2024's outstanding graduate student mentors by the Graduate School.

Lydia Rader is a graduate student in the behavioral, psychiatric, and statistical genetics program. Lydia has shown tremendous leadership both within and outside of the program. Locally, Lydia has been a research award reviewer for the Institute of