POP-GEM
Cross-Population Working
Group on Genes and Environment
in Mental Health
Award
December 2021
Terrell Hicks, MS is awarded the Kendler Award for Excellence in Pre-Doctoral Research by Virginia Commonwealth Universty's Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (VIPBG).
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
December 2021
Paper Published
April 2022
Lab director Roseann E. Peterson, PhD co-authored Indirect paths from genetics to education in Nature Genetics.
Award
15 April 2022
Lab member Madhur Singh receives BGA Travel Award to present his work at this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference in LA in June.
Lab Meet-Up
12 April 2022
Lab director Roseann Peterson, PhD and lab members Madhur Singh, Eva Lancaster, PhD, Hope Wolf, Hailie Suarez-Rivas, and Rowan O'Hara get meet in-person for the first time at the VCU Women's Health Research Day.
Lab director Roseann Peterson, PhD and lab members Amanda Gentry, PhD, Hope Wolf, Eva Lancaster, PhD, and Rowan O'Hara have a meet up at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Sculpture Gardens.
Women's Health Research Day 2022
12 April 2022
Lab director Roseann Peterson, PhD and lab members Eva Lancaster, PhD, Rowan O'Hara, and Hailie Suarez-Rivas present their posters at VCU Women's Health Research Day.
Society for Reproductive Investigation
17 March 2022
Lab member Eva Lancaster, PhD presented her poster, "Investigating polygenic influences on age at menarche and relationships with depression risk across development," at the Society for Reproductive Investigation.
Paper Published
January 2022
Lab Director, Roseann E. Peterson, PhD is named as a co-author on Intermediate stable states in substance abuse.
Paper Published
January 2022
Terrell Hicks, MS publishes his first-author paper Divergent changes: abstinence and higher-frequency substance use increase among racial/ethnic minority young adults during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Lab Director, Roseann E. Peterson, PhD is named a co-author.