Meet Ryan
Ryan Bogdan, PhD, is the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He obtained his B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University (2003), and completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Science (Psychology) at Harvard University (2010) with Dr. Diego Pizzagalli. Before joining WUSTL he was a postdoctoral fellow in Neurogenetics with Dr. Ahmad Hariri at Duke University.
Ryan is interested in understanding genomic and environmental factors associated with psychopathology risk (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia) and their biological correlates (e.g., structural brain metrics, inflammation). He is interested in these questions from a developmental context and studies them across the lifespan from the prenatal period to later life. He uses a variety of methods including molecular genetics, GWAS, MRI, EEG/ERP, , twin studies, behavioral assessment, endocrine and inflammation assays, and self-report in both healthy and clinical populations across the lifespan. In addition to his dry lab, he runs a small wet lab that processes biological samples (e.g., saliva, blood, other tissues).
