Room 3 - Dr. Valerie Knopik

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Abstract

Valerie Knopik is the Ben & Maxine Miller Professor and Department Head of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. Dr. Knopik is an Associate Editor for Behavior Genetics, consulting editor for Child Development, serves on the editorial board of Psychological Medicine, and is the lead author on the textbook, Behavioral Genetics. Professor Knopik’s primary area of research focuses on joint effects of genetic, epigenetic and environmental (specifically prenatal and early postnatal) risk factors on birth outcomes, externalizing behavior (ADHD, conduct disorder), associated learning and cognitive deficits, and subsequent substance use. She has received two Research Mentoring Awards for Outstanding Mentorship and is currently the primary mentor on multiple NIH career development awards focused on biobehavioral pathways of development to adolescent substance use, genetic comorbidity of adolescent smoking and ADHD, and methodological approaches to gene-set and gene-network investigations of alcohol dependence.

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• Valerie Knopik, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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