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The paper titled “Genome-wide association study identifies novel locus for neuroticism and shows polygenic association with Major Depressive Disorder” has been accepted for publication at JAMA Psychiatry. The de Wit/Palmer group contributed one of 29 datasets, resulting in a total
Natalia Gonzales has won an award to attend both the Seminar and Conference portions of the Quantitative Genetics and Genomics meeting of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference in Lucca (Barga), Italy. The USDA Animal Genetics conference award covers the costs
Apurva Chitre has joined the Palmer Lab! She recently completed her M.S. in Bioinformatics at John Hopkins University. While there, she also worked as a data analyst and research coordinator for multiple large-scale studies investigating the genetic basis of various
Dr. Oksana Polesskaya is the new Scientific Coordinator for the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats! The Scientific Coordinator is a crucial part of the Administrative Core, which is based at the University of Chicago. Dr. Polesskaya obtained her
Jungkyun Seo will join the Palmer Lab in January! He recently completed his M.S. in Statistics at the University of Chicago. He also worked as a Research Assistant in Nancy Cox’s lab, where he analyzed large sets of genomic data
The 53rd annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) was held in Phoenix, AZ from December 7-11. Dr. Palmer was promoted from Associate to Full Member and gave a talk; Natalia Gonzales, Clarissa Parker, and Camron Bryant presented
April Williams has also accepted a post-doc position and will join the Palmer Lab in Spring 2015! She is currently finishing her PhD in Coleen Murphy’s lab at Princeton University. Her dissertation is titled “Transcriptional Profiling of Dissociated Adult Caenorhabditis
Amanda Barkley-Levenson has accepted a post-doc position and will join the Palmer Lab in Spring 2015! She is currently finishing her PhD in John Crabbe’s lab at the Oregon Health & Sciences University. Her dissertation is titled “The role of
A recent article by Francie Diep in Scientific American explores the National Institute of Health’s new initiative that encourages researchers to design sex-balanced experiments. Part of this policy includes additional funding opportunities that add more animals to existing studies, in
The University of Chicago’s student-run newspaper, The Chicago Maroon, recently highlighted Dr. Palmer’s work for the new NIDA National Center of Excellence for GWAS in Outbred Rats. The Center seeks to use rats to investigate the genetic basis of drug