Program

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

We will offer a pre-conference workshop on advanced behavior genetic analyses (e.g., gene-environment correlation and interaction). Using data from the TwinLife study, participants will learn how to analyze twin data with more complex models in R (using packages “umx” and “OpenMx”) and to interpret the results.

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

The workshop is free of charge and will take place before the conference on the 26th of March. If you want to attend, please consider arriving a day early.

On the ➔ TwinLife Data Documentation website, you can find example materials from past workshops.

Workshop Schedule:

Start at 9:30 A.M. (GMT+1)

Time	Topic
9:30 – 11:00	Introduction, Behavioral genetics & working with Twin(Life) data
11:00 – 11:15	BREAK
11:15 – 12:15	ACE models in a SEM framework: cross-sectional
12:15 – 13:15	LUNCH BREAK
13:15 – 14:15	ACE models in a SEM framework: longitudinal
14:15 – 14:30	BREAK
14:30 – 16:00	Gene-by-Environment Interplay
16:00 – 16:30	Questions, Discussion & farewell

08:30 – 10:00 Late Registration (Room B2880)

08:45 – 09:45 Plenary Discussion with Sabrina TORREGROZA & Svenja EIBELSHÄUSER: TwinLife and infas: a longitudinal partnership (Room B3009)

09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break (Floor GW2)

10:15 – 11:15 Paper Presentation Session 1

PPS 1A Methods (Room B3010) – Chair: Steven WEZEL

10:15 Juan Gabriel RODRIGUEZ & Raquel Sebastián Lago: Effort, genes and circumstances

10:35 Laura BOTZET et al.: To adjust or to weight? Dealing with confounding variables when estimating effects of hormonal contraception on women's sexuality in longitudinal data

10:55 Steven WEZEL et al.: Differences between nuclear twin family and classical twin model parameter estimates in assortative mating based on simulated data

PPS 1B Health and Well-Being (Room B3009) – Chair: Marco DEPPE

10:15 Marco DEPPE: Well-being research based on TwinLife data

10:35 Charlotte MISCHNER & Christian Wolff: NTFD decomposition of trait, state, and slope variance of life satisfaction in childhood and early adulthood

10:55 Laura HELBIG: The confounding role of household chaos in the association between mental health problems and school grades

11:15 – 11:30 Short Break

11:30 – 12:30 Paper Presentation Session 2

PPS 2A Politics, Values, and Religiousness (Room B3010) – Chair: Ariel KNAFO-NOAM

11:30 Kevin CHENG: Personality, politics, and pedigree: insights from a cross-sequential study of German twins

11:50 Christoph SPÖRLEIN et al.: Longitudinal development of gender differences in religious participation during adolescence

12:10 Ariel KNAFO-NOAM: The genetic and environmental contribution to values: new results from the Longitudinal Israeli Study of Twins and ideas for collaboration

PPS 2B Peer Victimization and School Stress (Room B3009) – Chair: Ruyan LUO

11:30 Ruyan LUO & Yixuan Liu: A co-twin control study of the association between school stress and depressive symptoms in adolescence

11:50 Lucy BOWES: Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study

12:10 Benjamin IFFLAND et al.: Vulnerability for peer victimization: examination of heritability and risk factors in a twin-family study

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Mensa)

13:30 – 14:30 Workshop & Paper Presentation Session 3

Workshop ImmunoTwin (Room B3009)

13:30 Jonathan TURNER: What is ImmunoTwin?

13:45 Jeanne Le CLÉAC’H et al.: Impact of psycho-social environment (PSE) on immune profiles: Immunophenotyping adversity-divergent monozygotic twins

14:00 Archibold MPOSHI et al.: Biological embedding of the psycho-social environment: insights from monozygotic twin DNA methylation analysis

14:15 Discussion

PPS 3 Birthweight and Zygosity Effects on Child Development (Room B3010) – Chair: Roberts EVES

13:30 Robert EVES et al.: Differences in relative birthweight between twins and its association with cognitive outcomes

13:50 Julia KRELL et al.: Differences in relative birthweight between twins and its association with behavioural outcomes

14:10 Karoline LANGNER: Effect of zygosity and sex on depictions of affection in twin children's drawings

14:30 – 14:40 Short Break

14:40 – 15:20 Paper Presentation Sessions 4

PPS 4A Epigenetics I (Room B3009) – Chair: Alicia SCHOWE

14:40 Alicia SCHOWE et al.: Genetic and environmental contributions to salivary DNA methylation across development: a longitudinal analysis of monozygotic and dizygotic twins

15:00 Deniz FRAEMKE et al.: Associations of DNA-methylation profile scores of cognition with cognitive development, academic performance, and socioeconomic attainments

PPS 4B Parent-Child Transmission (Room B3010) – Chair: Alexandra STARR

14:40 Alexandra STARR et al.: Does parent-child resemblance in intelligence and reading ability predict children’s school performance?

15:00 Christina BORNER & Uwe Sunde: Unfolding the intergenerational transmission of economic and social preferences

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee Break (Floor GW2)

15:50 – 16:50 Paper Presentation Session 5

PPS 5A Epigenetics II (Room B3009) – Chair: Jana INSTINSKE

15:50 Jana INSTINSKE et al.: Epigenetic aging and personality differences: latent change analyses of twin data

16:10 Dmitry KUZNETSOV et al.: Tracking bullying experience in accelerated epigenetic aging during adolescence

16:30 Yixuan LIU et al.: Evidence of faster pace of aging measured in saliva DNA methylation among educational mobile German young adults

PPS 5B Parental Environment (Room B3010) – Chair: Bastian MÖNKEDIEK

15:50 Jasmin WERTZ: Associations between parental symptoms of ADHD and parenting: evidence from a longitudinal cohort

16:10 Bastian MÖNKEDIEK: The contributions of genes and environment to leaving the parental home

16:30 Ilija MILOVANOVIĆ et al.: Genetic and environmental effects on personality and perception of parenthood: insights from a Serbian and German twin study

17:00 – 18:00: German Twin Registry under Development (GerTRuD) Committee Meeting

08:45 – 10:15 Workshop with Alexander CAMPBELL et al.: Introduction to ICE FALCON: novel twin methods for causal inference (Room B3009)

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break (Floor GW2)

10:45 – 12:15 Research Idea Presentation Session I & II

RIPS I (Room B3009) – Chair: Theresa ROHM

10:45 Henriette BERING & Wiebke Schulz: Parental separation and children's educational outcomes

11:00 Henriette BERING & Wiebke Schulz: Extracurricular activities and educational potential

11:15 Martin FIEDER: Musical and artistic abilities as a by-product of the evolution of human pro-sociality

11:30 Josué Jonatan Teran LINARTE: Digital device usage and cognitive development in children: a longitudinal and behavioural genetic approach

11:45 Kouta SASAKI: The triangle of flexible self-regulation, goal achievement and subjective well-being: benefits of a behavior genetic perspective

12:00 Alexandra ZAPKO-WILLMES & Julia M. Rohrer: Birth-order effects on individual differences among twin siblings

RIPS II (Room B3010) – Chair: Christian KANDLER

10:45 Sören HESE et al.: Can high dimensional earth observation based environmental information explain epigenetic clock pattern variability in TwinLife?

11:00 Caspar GROSS: Using long read sequencing to investigate genetic and epigenetic variability in 400 twin pairs

11:15 Charlotte PAHNKE: A systematic investigation of assortative mating by geographic location in Germany

11:30 Dejan PAJIÆ: Exploring personality and genetic correlates of risky behaviour in virtual reality

11:45 Gerit LINNEWEBER: Cross-comparisons of fruit fly behavioral individuality with TwinLife data

12:00 Petri KAJONIUS & David Sjöström: PsiTwin/ psychedelic experiences with twins: genetic and experiential contributions and causes in mental health and well-being

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Mensa)

13:30 – 14:15 Plenary Discussion with Moana BEYER et al.: Challenges and opportunities in developing a German twin registry (Room B3009)

14:15 – 14:45 Special Talk about Collaborations with Tania Kiehl LUCCI & Emma Otta regarding The USP Twin Panel, a Brazilian twin registry (Room B3009)

14:45 – 15:00 Farewell (Room B3009)

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