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IBG Director Matthew Keller (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 award from the National Institutes of Mental Health

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:39:08 +0000

IBG Director Matthew Keller (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 award from the National Institutes of Mental Health Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/09/2022 - 14:39

IBG Director Matthew Keller (Principal Investigator) was awarded a 5-year R01 award from the National Institutes of Mental Health, "Causes and consequences of mental disorders: The environmental and genetic influences of parents on offspring." This project will extend existing and develop new models that use whole-genome data measured in parents and offspring to help disentangle the genetic and environmental causes of parent-offspring similarity on traits.

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Jared Balbona, Yongkang Kim, and Matthew Keller won the Fulker award for the best paper published in 2021 in Behavioral Genetics

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:33:07 +0000

Jared Balbona, Yongkang Kim, and Matthew Keller won the Fulker award for the best paper published in 2021 in Behavioral Genetics Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/09/2022 - 14:33

Jared Balbona, Yongkang Kim, and Matthew Keller won the Fulker award for the best paper published in 2021 in Behavioral Genetics. The paper presents a model for using polygenic scores within families to estimate the degree to which parent-offspring similarity is due to direct parental influences versus shared genetics, and accounts for otherwise confounding influences of assortative mating and gene-environment correlation. The full paper can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-020-10032-w

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Faculty Fellow Matt Keller received the 2019 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience award for outstanding research

Anonymous — Thu, 23 May 2019 15:02:24 +0000

Faculty Fellow Matt Keller received the 2019 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience award for outstanding research Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/23/2019 - 09:02

Dr. Matthew Keller's research bridges behavioral, evolutionary, and statistical genetics to elucidate the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders and individual differences. Over the past two years, he has published 24 peer-reviewed journal articles, many of those in the top journals in his field (Nature Genetics, Nature Human Behavior, Bioinformatics, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Biological Psychiatry); he gave 4 invited talks and 3 standard conference presentations, in addition to co-authoring student presentations; and he is PI, Co-PI, or Co-I on 4 NIH R-grants, totaling over $5 million in direct costs. He is highly productive, but more importantly, his work is highly impactful with respect to both theory and methods. His recently published work includes substantial methodological contributions: for example, comparing methods for using whole genome data to estimate heritability and genetic architecture (published in 2018 in Nature Genetics); and developing methods for quantifying assortative mating with whole-genome data (published in 2018 in Nature Human Behavior). His dedication to replicability is also evident, with four papers in the last two years that speak to the lack of replication of candidate-gene and candidate-gene-by-environment interaction effects in large samples. For these contributions and others, Dr. Keller deserves to win the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Research award for 2018.

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Matt Keller receives Fuller & Scott Early Career Award

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 18:10:22 +0000

Matt Keller receives Fuller & Scott Early Career Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/01/2016 - 12:10

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Matt Keller who received The 2012 Behavior Genetics Association's Fuller and Scott Early Career Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishments by a member who is early in their career. Matt earned this award based on his groundbreaking evolutionary and statistical genetic studies of behavior and psychiatric disorders.

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Matt Keller, Sarah Medland, and Laramie Duncan win Fulker Award

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Matt Keller, Sarah Medland, and Laramie Duncan win Fulker Award Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 07/31/2016 - 00:00

At this year's meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Fulker Award for best paper published in the journal Behavior Genetics during 2010 was presented to IBG Faculty Fellow, Matt Keller (Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience), Sarah Medland of the Queensland Institute for Medical Research, and Laramie Duncan, a graduate student in clinical psychology and the IBG graduate program. Their paper, "Are extended twin family designs worth the trouble? A comparison of the bias, precision, and accuracy of parameters estimated in four twin family models" provided a rigorous guide to these issues in the classical twin design and three extended twin family designs used in human behavior genetics.

Congratulations to Matt, Sarah, and Laramie for this outstanding contribution to behavior genetics research.

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