ISTS Membership/Subscription
What does Membership include?
- Membership includes an annual SUBSCRIPTION to the official journal of the society, Twin Research and Human Genetics. Members receive 6 high-quality journal issues in the post, as well as online access to all issues of the journal.
- ISTS members receive all communications regarding the society, the society congress, and other relevant meetings.
Who can join?
- Any individual (twin researcher, twin, parent of twin, or other person) who supports the objectives of ISTS and is willing to contribute to the achievement of those objectives is qualified to join the Society.
- Any officially organized group of individuals, e.g. Twins Club is qualified to be an Organizational Member.
How to join
- Please complete it and send it to:
- Professor Nicholas Martin
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- Post Office, Royal Brisbane Hospital
- Brisbane Queensland, 4029
- Australia
- Fax: +61 7 3362 0101
- Current dues are 180 AUD per year for full members, with discounts for students and non-professional members (see Membership form for details). This includes a subscription to the official journal of the society, Twin Research and Human Genetics. Please note that membership runs for the calendar year, January to December.
ISTS Office Bearers 2008-2011
Please find below a list of elected Board members who handle various functions in the Society. The Bylaws of the Society guide
the action of these elected board members and the activity of the Society.
President
- Matt McGue, PhD
- Department of Psychology
- University of Minnesota
- N241a Elliott
- 75 East River Road
- Minneapolis, MN
- 55455-0344
- USA
- Email: mcgue001@umn.edu
ISTS Secretary-General
- Jennifer Harris, PhD
- Department of Genes and Environment
- Division of Epidemiology
- The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Post Box 4404 Nydalen
- N-0403 Oslo, NORWAY
- AND
- Behavioral and Social Research Program
- The National Institute on Aging
- Gateway Building, Room 533
- 7201 Wisconsin Avenue
- Bethesda, MD 20892-9205, USA
- Email: harrisje@nia.nih.gov
- or Jennifer.harris@fhi.no
Treasurer
- Professor Nicholas Martin
- Editor, Twin Research and Human Genetics
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- Post Office, Royal Brisbane Hospital
- 300 Herston Road
- Brisbane 4029
- AUSTRALIA
- Email: nickM@qimr.edu.au
Past President
- Jaakko Kaprio, MD, PhD
- Dept. of Public Health
- P.O. Box 41
- FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
- FINLAND
- Email: jaakko.kaprio@helsinki.fi
Board Members
- Catherine Derom, PhD
- Centre for Human Genetics
- UZ-Gasthuisberg O&N
- Herestraat, 49
- B-3000 Leuven
- Twins UZ-Gent
- De Pintelaan, 185 PB91
- B-9000 Gent
- BELGIUM
- Email: c.derom@telenet.be
- or catherine.derom@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
- Danielle M. Dick, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Human Genetics
- Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Department of Psychiatry
- PO Box 980126
- Richmond, VA 23298-0126
- USA
- Email: ddick@vcu.edu
- Paul Lichtenstein, PhD
- Karolinska Institutet
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm
- SWEDEN
- Email: Paul.lichtenstein@ki.se
- Nancy Pedersen, PhD
- Karolinska Institutet
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm
- SWEDEN
- Email: Nancy.pedersen@ki.se
- Nancy Segal, PhD
- California State University, Psychology Department, H-830-M
- 800 N. State College Blvd
- Fullerton, CA 92834
- USA
- Email: nsegal@fullerton.edu
- Kimberley Weatherall
- COMBO Chair and Chair, Multiple Births Canada
- 494 Deancourt Cres.
- Orleans, Ontario, K4A 3G3
- CANADA
- Email: chair@multiplebirthscanada.org
- or kweatherall3854@rogers.com
- Gonneke Willemsen, PhD
- Biological Psychology
- VU University Amsterdam
- van der Boechorstraat 1
- 1081 BT Amsterdam
- THE NETHERLANDS
- Email: AHM.Willemsen@psy.vu.nl
International Society for Twin Studies
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Last revised: Monday, 11 February 2008