Abraham Palmer gives plenary lecture at Center for Contextual Genetics and Prevention Science
The talk was called “Using Intermediate Phenotypes to Bridge the Gap Between Human and Mouse Genetics” and was part of symposium titled “Unraveling Genetic Influences on Substance Misuse: The Intermediate Phenotype”. Details can be found here.
Competitive renewal of NIDA R01 funded
This is the first R01 that I’ve ever had to renew, luckily I got it on the first try! The grant was funded by NIDA and is titled “Systems genetic analysis of methamphetamine’s motivational effects in a mouse AIL” and
Greta Sokoloff and Abraham Palmer are co-authors on “Genetic analysis in the Collaborative Cross breeding population: Heritability, genetic correlation and QTL mapping” which is in press at Genome Research
After a long review process this paper is finally out!
Diane Trahanas hired as Palmer Lab’s new technician
Article “Dark matter: are mice the solution to missing heritability?” accepted in Frontiers in Genetics
The article can be found here.
Palmer Lab Travels to Rome for IBANGS Meeting
Dr. Greta Sokoloff’s paper “Anxiety and fear in a cross of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: mapping overlapping and independent QTL for related traits” accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior!
The article can be found here.
Dr. Camron Bryant appointed as Research Scientist (Assistant Professor)
Dr. Carmon Bryant has been promoted from postdoc to research scientist a change that is coincident with the start of his K99/R00 award. Congratulations to Camron!
Clarissa Parker wins travel fellowship to Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion
Dr. Clarissa Parker won a travel fellowship that allowed her to attend the Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion where she presented a poster titled “Genome-wide association for fear-conditioning in an advanced intercross mouse line: The benefits of recombination”.