Montana joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Vermont.

Her previous research examined the effects of genetic diversity on electrophysiological and neurobehavioral traits in epilepsy mouse models.

Her scientific interests span neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders, and she is excited to apply quantitative genetics approaches to model systems in the Palmer Lab. 

Montana is glad to be back in San Diego where she enjoys the beach, biking, playing with her dog, and going on adventures outside with friends and family. 

Welcome, Montana!

Robert joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023.  He holds a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and he completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, IBM Research, and Scripps Research. 

Prior to joining the Palmer Lab, he worked on developing and applying computational tools for analyzing molecular measurements and binary classification tasks. 

His interests are in applying his background to problems in genetics, genomics, and transcriptomics in the Palmer and Mohammadi Labs.

Welcome, Bobby!

Abraham Palmer is an author on the manuscript titled “A Novel Quantitative Trait Locus Implicates Msh3 in the Propensity for Genome-wide Short Tandem Repeat Expansions in Mice,” which was recently accepted for publication in Genome Research.

Preprint available here.

The manuscript titled “Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.

Authors include Amy M. Gancarz, Suzanne H. Mitchell, Anthony M. George, Connor D. Martin, Marisa C. Turk, Heather M. Bool, Fahmida Aktar, Francis Kwarteng, Abraham A. Palmer, Paul J. Meyer, Jerry B. Richards, David M. Dietz, and Keita Isiwari.

The full article is available here.

Scientific Reports, volume 13, article number: 7027 (2023)

doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2525080/v1

From the article:

Delay Discounting(a) This plot shows the mean (±SEM) indifference point (rejection volume of water) as

The manuscript “Genome-wide Association Studies of Human and Rat BMI Converge on Synapse, Epigenome, and Hormone Signaling Networks” has been provisionally accepted for publication as a research article at Cell Reports.

Authors include Brittany Leger, Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya,
Riyan Cheng, and Abraham Palmer.

Congratulations!

Publication details to follow! (as of 4/24/23)

The manuscript titled “CADM2 is Implicated in Impulsive Personality and Numerous Other Traits by Genome- and Phenome-wide Association Studies in Humans and Mice” was accepted in Translational Psychiatry. Authors from the Palmer Lab (current and past members) include Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Amanda Barkley-Levenson, Danielle Schafer, Cedric Snethlage, Zeljana Babic, and Abraham Palmer.

April 2023 (A preprint is available here)

The manuscript titled “Automated Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis (AutoQTL)” was accepted in BioData Mining. Authors include Apurva S Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.

Published: 10 April 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-023-00331-3

Ben Johnson joined the Bioinformatics team at Palmer Lab in March 2023. He received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University with concentrations in Ecological Genetics, Population Biology, Systematics, and Physiological Ecology.
Welcome, Ben!

The manuscript titled “Exponential Increase in QTL Detection with Increased Sample Size” was accepted in GENETICS. Authors include Apurva S. Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, Daniel Munro, Riyan Cheng, and Abraham Palmer.

Published: 28 March 2023 (online ahead of print)

DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyad054

A new R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) was awarded to Dr. Giordano de Guglielmo, with Dr. Abraham Palmer as co-investigator. The 5-year grant is titled “Identification of Genetic Variants that Influence Compulsive Alcohol Intake in Outbred Rats” and will start March 10, 2023 and end on February 29, 2028.