Hermine H. Maes

Faculty

Hermine H. Maes

Associate Professor
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Psychiatry & Massey Cancer Center

Tel: 804 828 8145
Fax: 804 828 8801 Email:
hmaes@vcu.edu P.O. Box:
980003 VIPBG
Biotech 1-148

My research is mostly focused on understanding the etiology and trajectories of tobacco use and abuse using meta-analyses of adolescent tobacco use data, as well as heterogeneity, developmental, survival and twin-parent analyses that allow better separation of genetic and environmental transmission. As part of the GEDI project, my research involves harmonizing substance use phenotypes across studies and modeling developmental trajectories of substance use and abuse to study the combined effects of genes and environment (GE correlation and interaction). My research also involves psychometric analyses of substance (ab)use phenotypes including tests of measurement invariance across groups, characterization of the biological and genetic basis for vulnerability to tobacco addiction by including measured environments and genotypes into statistical models, and extension of twin pedigree models to be applied to the Swedish population databases. I am part of the Open Mx team and translate existing Mx code into the newly developed R-OpenMx code, that will allow even greater flexibility in specifying statistical (genetic) models, and write documentation for and provide training in the new OpenMx code for structural equation modeling of a range of applications to genetically informative data.

Education

1985: Lic Physical Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
1992: PhD Physical Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Professional Experience

1985-1992: Research Assistant, Institute of Physical Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
1992-1995: Research Associate, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1995-1998: Instructor, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1998-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2006-2007: Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2007-present: Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Psychiatry and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Honors

1993: Thompson Memorial Award for Behavior Genetics
1999: John Templeton Foundation Exemplary Paper Awards
2005: Outstanding Teacher Award of Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University

Funded Research

5R01DA025109: Developmental Genetic Epidemiology of Smoking [10-15] PI: Hermine Maes

Research Interests

Genetic Epidemiology Methodology
Relationship between Mental and Physical Health

Teaching Assignments

HGEN619: Quantitative Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, VCU (Course director: Maes)
International Workshop on Methodology of Twin and Family Studies, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Boulder CO
HGEN603: Mathematical and Statistical Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, VCU (Course director: York)
HGEN620: Principles of Human Behavioral Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, VCU (Course director: Silberg)

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