Bernie Devlin

Bernie Devlin is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His research program centers on statistical genetics with applications to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. The Devlin Lab pursues three interconnected goals: developing novel statistical methods for genetic analysis, discovering disease-associated genetic variants, and translating these findings to elucidate neurobiological mechanisms.

Primary research domains include:

• Statistical genetics methodology for large-scale genomic studies
• Genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia
• Functional genomics and proteomics in neural systems
• Integration of multi-omics data for neurodevelopmental disorders

His work has been supported by multiple grants from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), including:

• Transcriptomic/proteomic analysis of autism-associated genes (2022)
• Statistical methods development for the SSC-ASC Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium (2018)
• Interactome screening for damaging de novo mutations in autism (2018)

Recent publications demonstrate methodological innovations in gene-based testing and applications of genome sequencing in clinical diagnostics, with consistent focus on autism genetics.