Laramie Duncan, PhD

Dr. Duncan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She studies genetic influences on psychopathology with a specific focus on schizophrenia and analyses using genetic sequence data. Dr. Duncan completed a double major at the University of Georgia in 2003. She lived in Yosemite National Park for one year before starting doctoral training in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado in 2004. She also completed training at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics in Boulder, Colorado from 2006-2010, learning quantitative and molecular genetic methods. After completing her internship in Clinical Psychology (2010-2011) at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School, she now devotes most of her time to statistical genetics research and maintains a small clinical practice.