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Executive Committee

BGA Past-President

Valerie Knopik

vknopik@purdue.edu

BGA President

Chandra Reynolds

chandra.reynolds@colorado.edu

BGA President-Elect & 2025 BGA Meeting Program Chair

Benjamin Neale

bneale@broadinstitute.org

Secretary

Tinca Polderman

tinca.polderman@amsterdamumc.nl

The BGA secretary is the principal coordinating officer for BGA activities. Please contact the secretary for general information about BGA, such as committee structure, information about future meeting sites, offers to host meetings, and suggestions for the annual business meeting agenda The BGA Office of the Secretary publishes the program for the annual meeting of BGA.

Treasurer

Gretchen Saunders

saund247@umn.edu

The BGA Treasure oversees all BGA membership applications and BGA financial transactions, including annual dues. The Treasure maintains the membership address list and the mailing list for the journal Behavior Genetics. Please direct all inquires and concerns related to membership dues and journal subscriptions to the BGA treasurer (and not the publisher).

Information Officer

Christopher Beam

beamc@usc.edu

The BGA Information Officer maintains the BGA website and works closely with the Secretary and Treasurer. Please direct information related to the BGA annual meeting, job vacancies/announcements, training/course opportunities, and event announcements to the Information Officer.

The Executive Committee also includes three elected Members-at-Large. One represents the general membership, one represents Associate Members, and one represents Members from outside North America. For continuity, one is elected each year.

Member-At-Large (Regular Members)

Brad Verhulst

verhulst@tamu.edu

Member-At-Large (Associate Members)

Abdel Abdellaoui

a.abdellaoui@amsterdamumc.nl

Member-At-Large (Outside North America)

Jose Morosoli

j.morosoli@ucl.ac.uk

The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee consists of three voting members elected by the BGA membership, serving 3-year staggered terms. The IDEA committee reviews any alleged violations of the BGA conduct policy (Article XV) that are reported to the committee, investigates the issue, and determines if action by the BGA is appropriate and the content of that action.

IDEA Committee Member (Chair)

Kit Elam

kitelam@iu.edu

IDEA Committee Member

Elizabeth Prom-Wormley

ecpromwormle@apps.vcu.edu

IDEA Committee Member

Angelica Ronald

a.ronald@surrey.ac.uk

IDEA Committee Member (Early Career)

S. Mason Garrison

garrissm@wfu.edu

The Public Science Committee consists of one representative who serves a 3-year term to lead BGA's effort to make the science of behavior genetics accessible to the general public.

Public Science Committee Chair

Evan Giangrande

egiangrande@broadinstitute.org

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