UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics

ICNG Seminar: "Pediatric neuroimaging, neurogenetics, and neurobehavior: from Small Data to Big Data and back again"
2025-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

ICNG Seminar: "Changing mental health trajectories through early identification and intervention"
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Joshua Roffman, MD
Director, Mass General Early Brain Development Initiative
Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research and Training, MGH Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

ICNG Seminar: "Developing Insights into Schizophrenia and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders"
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Rebecca Birnbaum, MD
Assistant Professor
Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Mount Sinai

ICNG Seminar: "Connecting electrophysiological measures from schizophrenia patient-derived neurons to the donor’s clinical status and cognitive performance"
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Brady J. Maher, PhD
Lead Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

ICNG Seminar: "Future-proofing Neural Morphology"
2025-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Giorgio Ascoli, PhD
Professor
Bioengineering & Neuroscience
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University

ICNG Seminar: "Genetics, aging, and Alzheimer's disease in black communities"
2025-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Kacie D. Deters, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
University of California Los Angeles

ICNG Seminar: "Digital Phenotyping for Depression and Anxiety"
2024-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Nelson Freimer, MD
Professor, Psychiatry and Human Genetics
Director, Depression Grand Challenge

ICNG Seminar: "Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a CAG Triplet Disorder: Disease mechanisms and links with Huntington Disease"
2024-11-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Harry Orr, PhD
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota School of Medicine

ICNG Seminar: "Sex differences in the common genetic architecture of the human brain anatomy"
2024-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Rebecca Shafee, PhD
Research Fellow
Section on Developmental Neurogenomics
National Institute of Mental Health

ICNG Seminar: "Towards an atlas of human vulnerability using cell villages"
2024-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Michael Wells, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Genetics
David Geffen School of Medicine

ICNG Seminar: "Organization and Function of Cortical Circuits Underlying Long Term Memory"
2024-10-10 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Laura DeNardo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
David Geffen School of Medicine

Call for 2024-25 Predoc & Postdoc Applications
2024-08-06 - 2024-08-30
The Training Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics, directed by Drs. Roel Ophoff and Carrie Bearden, is now accepting applications for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees.
FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Friday, August 30, 2024, 5 PM (PT)
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY:

Per NIH Grants Policy 11.3.2.6, candidates must be U.S citizens or permanent residents.
Per UCLA Appointment Criteria, candidates must not have exceeded 4 years of postdoctoral experience (at UCLA and at other institutions, combined) at the time of application.
A Participating UCLA Faculty Mentor must submit a Letter of Nomination for a candidate
In the case that a candidate is appointed, their mentor must provide supplementary funding throughout their period of appointment in order to cover the shortfall resulting from the difference between the UCLA standard stipend rate and FY2024 NRSA standard stipend rate.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Letter of Nomination from a Participating UCLA Faculty Mentor
Two Additional Letters of Recommendation (may be from faculty outside of UCLA)
CNG T32 Application Cover Page (form attached)
Current CV
Statement of Objective (limited to 1-2 sentences)
Personal/Research Statement (limited to 1 page)
Appendices (limited to 3): Published/Submitted Grants and/or Papers

All letters should be sent directly to the CNG T32 Inbox (CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu) from the mentor and the recommenders, not the applicant. All other application materials should be submitted to the CNG T32 Inbox (CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu) by the applicant as a single PDF file, following our formatting guidelines.

ICNG Seminar: "High-Throughput Molecular and Synaptic Connectivity Phenotyping of Neurodevelopmental Disorder Models Using Viral Genomic Technology"
2024-06-06 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Arpy Saunders, PhD
Assistant Professor
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

NBG Journal Club: Topic TBD
2024-05-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: TBD
Article Link: TBD
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Comparative methods offer powerful insights into the evolution of the 'social brain'"
2024-05-23 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Sarah Kocher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University

NBG Journal Club: The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits
2024-05-14 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits
Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01828-5
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Partitioning cell type-specific heritability in scRNA-seq data"
2024-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Andy Dahl, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Chicago

NBG Journal Club: Vision-dependent specification of cell types and function in the developing cortex
2024-04-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: Vision-dependent specification of cell types and function in the developing cortex
Article Link: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)01485-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421014859%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Using Genetics and Development to Parse Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia"
2024-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Jen Forsyth, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Washington

NBG Journal Club: Topic A new agenda for personality psychology in the digital age?
2024-04-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: A new agenda for personality psychology in the digital age?
Article Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886919302132#bb0385
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Unraveling the complexity: biological insights from human cellular models of psychiatric disorders"
2024-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Ralda Nehme, PhD
Associate Director
Stem Cell Program
Broad Institute

NBG Journal Club: Cell subtype-specific effects of genetic variation in the Alzheimer’s disease brain
2024-04-02 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic:Cell subtype-specific effects of genetic variation in the Alzheimer’s disease brain
Article Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01685-y
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Gene-environment interplay in psychiatric risk and resilience"
2024-03-14 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Karmel Choi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Precision Prevention Program, MGH Center for Precision
Psychiatry Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

NBG Journal Club: Characterization of altered molecular mechanisms in Parkinson's disease through cell type-resolved multiomics analyses
2024-03-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: Characterization of altered molecular mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease through cell type-resolved multiomics analyses
Article Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo2467
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Sleep architecture predicts behavioral outcomes to stress"
2024-02-29 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Ketema Paul, PhD
Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
UCLA

NBG Journal Club: Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images
2024-02-27 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: Heart-brain connections: Phenotypic and genetic insights from magnetic resonance images
Article Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6598
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Autophagy and neurodegeneration"
2024-02-21 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
David C Rubinsztein MB ChB, BSc(Hons), PhD, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS
Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics
Deputy Director, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
UK Dementia Research Institute Professor
Honorary Consultant, Department of Medical Genetics
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

ICNG Seminar: "Genetic approaches to understanding substance use disorder and other behaviors: integrative studies using humans and rats"
2024-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Neuroscience Research Bldg Auditorium (NRB 132), 635 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Abraham Palmer, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research
Department of Psychiatry
UC San Diego

NBG Journal Club: Relationship Between Sleep Duration and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Analysis of NHANES and UK Biobank GWAS Data
2024-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Discussion Topic: Relationship Between Sleep Duration and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Analysis of NHANES and UK Biobank GWAS Data
Article Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10998004241230325?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed
Zoom URL: Provided upon request from CNGT32@mednet.ucla.edu

ICNG Seminar: "Comparing living and postmortem human brain biology"
2024-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics & Genomic Sciences
Director, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
