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: "Genetics, aging, and Alzheimer's disease in black communities"
2025-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | 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: "Future-proofing Neural Morphology"
2025-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 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: "Connecting electrophysiological measures from schizophrenia patient-derived neurons to the donor’s clinical status and cognitive performance"
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 | 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: "Developing Insights into Schizophrenia and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders"
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 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: "Changing mental health trajectories through early identification and intervention"
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:00 | 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: "Pediatric neuroimaging, neurogenetics, and neurobehavior: from Small Data to Big Data and back again"
2025-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 | 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: "Integration of estimated regional gene expression with neuroimaging and clinical phenotypes at biobank scale"
2025-05-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Tony Capra, PhD
Professor
Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute
University of California, San Francisco

ICNG Seminar: "The allelic architecture of rare variants in autism"
2025-05-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Jack Fu, PhD
Instructor
Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

ICNG Seminar: "Child and Adolescent Psychosis in Focus: Contributions of Brain, Genes, and Environment"
2025-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
David Glahn, PhD
Research Chief | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Tommy Fuss Center for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research
​Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Call for 2025-26 Predoc & Postdoc Applications
2025-06-13 - 2025-07-18 | CA
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, July 18, 2025, 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 FY2025 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.
Please note: Selected predocs and postdocs are guaranteed to receive one year of funding; predoc trainees may be eligible to receive a second year of funding, depending on funding availability.

ICNG Seminar: "Social-Science Genomics: Incorporating Genetic Data into Social-Science Research"
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Daniel Benjamin, PhD
Professor
Anderson School of Management
and Human Genetics
University of California Los Angeles

ICNG Seminar: "Developmental Emergence of Personality"
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bassem Hassan, PhD
Scientific Director & Deputy Executive Director,
Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute

ICNG Seminar: "Prefrontal Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Depression and Its Treatment"
2025-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Scott Wilke, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Penske Family Chair in Neuromodulation
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

ICNG Seminar: "Cognitive Genomics: A Cell Type-Specific Perspective"
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Genevieve Konopka, PhD
Professor & Chair
Department of Neurobiology
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

ICNG Seminar: "Single-Nucleus Epigenomic Dysregulation Unmasks Genetic Risk-Associated Neurodegenerative Cell States"
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD
John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation
Endowed Chair
Department of Neurology
Division of Neurogenetics
University of California, Los Angeles

ICNG Seminar: "Schizophrenia Risk Convergence in Gene Co-Expression Networks"
2026-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Giulio Pergola, PhD
Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Associate Professor of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

ICNG Seminar: "Multi-Omic integration of iPSC Brain Cell Types to Investigate H1/H2 Haplotype"
2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Timothy Chang, MD, PhD
Augustus S. Rose Chair in Neurology
Alzheimer’s Disease and Movement Disorders Program
Director, Amyloid Immunotherapy Care Program
Director, Chang Lab
Director, UCLA California Alzheimer’s Disease Center

ICNG Seminar: "Is Addiction Genetics Ready for Precision Medicine?"
2026-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Zoom): https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/96577774556
Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
UC San Diego
Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

ICNG Seminar: "Pan-NeuroDegeneration Analysis (PanNDA): Deep Proteomics of 2000 Human Samples and Mouse Models"
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Junmin Peng, PhD
Professor
Department of Structural Biology
Department of Developmental Neurobiology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

ICNG Seminar: "Minding Our Gut Microbes: Uncovering Mechanisms & Applications for Microbiome-Nervous System Interactions"
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Elaine Hsiao, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Goodman Luskin Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research
Director, UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Director, UCLA Gnotobiotic Animal Core Facility

ICNG Seminar: "Sex and the Single Cell: A Role for Sex Chromosome Dosage in Cardiometabolic Disease"
2026-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Karen Reue, PhD
Professor, Human Genetics
Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Human Genetics
Associate Director, UCLA/Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program

ICNG Seminar: "Cognitive Performance and Facial Expression Dynamics During Helpless Behavior"
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Austin Coley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

ICNG Seminar: "Mobile Technology to Advance Depression Prevention: Insights from the Intern Health Study"
2026-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Zoom) : https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/2970582103
Srijan Sen, MD, PhD
Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg
Professor of Depression and Neurosciences
Director
Eisenberg Family Depression Center
University of Michigan
Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
University of Michigan Medical School

ICNG Seminar: "Sex Chromosome Dosage Effects on Human Behavior and Brain Development"
2026-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Armin Raznahan, MD, PhD
Chief, Section on Developmental Neurogenomics
Human Genetics Branch
National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program
National Institutes of Health

ICNG Seminar: "FEMA-Long: A Framework for Discovery of Time-Dependent Genetic Effects"
2026-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Pravesh Parekh, PhD
Bioinformatics Engineer
J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), La Jolla
Guest Researcher, Centre for Precision Psychiatry
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo

ICNG Seminar: "Progress in Gene Discovery for Severe Mental Illness"
2026-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Benjamin Neale, PhD
Co-Director
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute
Core Institute Member
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital

ICNG Seminar: "Toward Decoding Excitation–Inhibition Imbalance in Developmental Disorders"
2026-07-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Gonda (Goldschmeid) Center, Room 1357, 695 Charles E Young Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Alessandro Gozzi, PhD
Director, Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory
Italian Institute of Technology
