The manuscript titled “The Whole Individual is the Model: Why New Approach Methodologies Must Complement, Not Replace, Animal Models in Neuropsychopharmacology” was accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham Palmer.
Congratulations!
Dr. Palmer is an author for the manuscript titled “Genome-wide association analyses of suicidality identify 77 loci and implicate subcortical brain regions and synaptic pathways,” which was accepted for publication in Nature Genetics.
The full author list is currently available on PubMed and medRxiv; and the final version will be added here after publication.
Congratulations to these collaborators!
The manuscript titled “Aberrant recursive splicing in a human disease locus” was accepted for publication in Cell Reports.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Oksana Polesskaya, Rudy Avila, and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “A phenome-wide association study of externalizing polygenic risk in the adolescent brain” was accepted for publication in Psychological Medicine.
Yixuan (Lawrence) Xu joined the Palmer Lab in August 2026 as a rotation student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD program.
Welcome, Lawrence!
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for the Psychiatric Institute & Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics Neuroscience Seminar Series at University of Illinois at Chicago on August 27, 2026.
Kalyani joined the Palmer Lab in August 2026 as a Data Processes Information Systems Analyst with the Bioinformatics team.
Welcome, Kalyani!
Dr. Montana Lara was selected to be a scholar in the Human Genetics Scholars Initiative program from the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG).
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The manuscript titled “Data-driven RNA phenotyping captures genetically regulated dimensions of the transcriptome” was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham Palmer.
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Dr. Palmer gave a talk during the 49th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) on June 21, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Palmer’s talk, “Using every part of the buffalo: how a large rodent genetics project encouraged spinoffs, collaborations and secondary data analyses,” was part of the round table session titled “From Biobanks to Behavior: How Shared Bioresources and Genetic Pipelines Drive Ethical Innovation in Preclinical Alcohol Research.”
