The 46th Annual Thompson Award for the best oral presentation by an associate member was awarded to Hans Fredrik Sunde from the Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, for their presentation “Assortative mating increases genetic similarity among distant relatives: evidence from polygenic scores”.

The 11th Annual Rowe Award for the best poster presentation by an associate member was awarded to Lydia Rader from the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA for their presentation " Working memory is genetically associated with young adult chronic pain: results from a longitudinal twin study”.

The 2nd Rising Star awards were awarded to Madhurbain Singh, from the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, for their oral presentation “Harnessing the Genetic Diversity in the UK Biobank to Enhance Genomic Discovery”, and Eva M Bartsch from Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, for their poster presentation “Working memory is genetically associated with young adult chronic pain: results from a longitudinal twin study”.

The 23nd Annual Fulker Award for the outstanding paper in Behavior Genetics during the past year was presented to David Hugh-Jones and Abdel Abdellaoui from the School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for their work “Human Capital Mediates Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans”.

The 19th Annual Fuller and Scott Award for outstanding early career contributions to the field was presented to Andrew Grotzinger from the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA.

The 45th annual Dobzhansky Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of behavior genetics was presented to Peter McGuffin of King’s College London, UK.

Respectfully Submitted,

Tinca Polderman.

Secretary, Behavior Genetics Association.

Lisabeth DiLalla.

Past President, Chair of the BGA Awards Committee.