2018
BGA Graduate Students attend Jackson Laboratory for a Short Course on the Genetics of Addiction
BGA’s Lauren Bertin and Katie Martin attended Jaxon lab’s psychiatric genetics workshop in in Bar Harbor, Maine. Through lectures and a hands-on workshop, Lauren and Katie learned new genetic and bioinformatics approaches to behavioral genetics.
Dr. Rohan Palmer visits the University of Queensland in Australia.
BGA attends the Association for Psychological Science 2018 conference
BGA’s Dr. Rohan Palmer, Dr. Chelsie Benca-Bachman, Pamela Romero, Lauren Bertin, and Andrew Boateng-Poku presented at the Association for Psychological Science’s 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Chelsie Benca-Bachman attends the Behavior Genetics Association conference
Dr. Chelsie Benca-Bachman attends the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics
Dr. Benca-Bachman attended multiple modules at this year’s institute at the University of Washington. She is looking forward to applying and teaching what she learned to the rest of the lab.
Dr. Chelsie Benca-Bachman attends the AddHealth user conference
BGA’s Dr. Benca-Bachman attended a conference in Bethesda, MD for users of the AddHealth data, a dataset the BGA Lab is using to investigate the relationship between religiosity and substance abuse.
Undergraduate Lab Members participate in Emory’s Undergraduate Research Symposium
Andrew Boateng-Poku, Victoria Risner, Maddy Gordon, Pamela Romero and Jenani Srijeyanthan all presented their work in the Spring. Their projects ranged from understanding
Dr. Palmer and the BGA Lab’s Undergraduate Research Assistants are featured in 