Eden’s project focused on calling genotypes for the X and Y chromosomes using GBS data. She was able to adapt the pipeline for use in the sex chromosomes but discovered that imputation was much less successful because the reference genotype data that we had been using for the autosomes is much less complete for the …
The article, “Genetic risk for major depressive disorder and loneliness in sex-specific associations with coronary artery disease,” was accepted for publication in Molecular Psychiatry. Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige and Dr. Abraham Palmer are co-authors along with Jessica Dennis, Julia Sealock, Rebecca Levinson, Eric Farber-Eger, Jacob Franco, Sarah Fong, Peter Straub, Donald Hucks, Wen-Liang Song, MacRae Linton, Pierre …
The goal of the center is to use outbred rats to study the genetic basis of drug self-administration and related behavioral traits. More information is available at www.ratgenes.org.
Drs. Amanda Barkley-Levenson and Abraham Palmer attended the Research Society on Alcoholism conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 22-26. Amanda presented a poster titled, “Glyoxalase 1 and sensitivity to the motivational effects of ethanol.” Abraham presented a talk titled, “Dissecting the genetics of alcohol Consumption and alcohol misuse, and overlap with alcohol dependence.” He also …
The Palmer Lab is looking to hire an Information Systems Analyst. This person will be maintaining databases and running established scripts and pipelines for the Palmer Lab. There is also a lot of opportunity for professional growth. See the job description and apply here.
The 5th Annual Retreat for the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats (Director – Dr. Palmer) was held on June 12, 2019. Investigators from the P50 Center, as well as PIs of the grants affiliated with the Center, gave short talks about their projects, followed by discussion. The Advisory Board had a closed-door meeting …
On June 8-11, 2019, the Complex Traits Consortium (CTC) meeting was held at UCSD and hosted by Dr. Abraham Palmer. The meeting covered quantitative approaches to mouse and rodent genetics. The meeting had three plenary speakers, a poster session, and many short talks that were drawn from submitted abstracts and organized thematically. CTC talks from …
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige had a healthy baby girl on June 8th. The baby’s name is Margot, and we cannot be happier for Sandra!
Dr. Abraham Palmer visited the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was invited to be the keynote speaker for a graduate student conference. The title of his talk was, “Quantitative behavioral genetics in mice, rats, and humans,” which highlighted his contributions to the field of behavioral genetics.
Apurva and Abraham attended the Addiction Genetics and Epigenetics Data Jamboree, May 29-31 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. This workshop, co-sponsored by NIDA and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed challenge problems to integrate data across human and model organism genetics, genomics, and epigenetic studies of addiction.