11th annual P30 Center retreat – November 20, 2025

The 11th annual retreat for the NIDA Center of Excellence for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats was held on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at the University of California San Diego.

Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely, and thank you to the session speakers and poster presenters! We hope you found the talks and discussions informative and made connections with new HS rats colleagues. It was especially gratifying to see so many people having a chance to talk to each other in person both during the meeting and at the dinner that evening.

Please keep the energy form the retreat going. If you saw new opportunities for projects, papers, or grants, please follow up!

The Center PIs gave talks in Session 1, and nine presenters from the HS rats community gave talks on their research in Sessions 2, 3, and 4. 

Presenters and photos are available on the P30 Center website (ratgenes.org) in the Meetings tab: "11th Annual Retreat: Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats"

A special thank you to Palmer Lab members who helped with the event preparations for audio/visual connections, seating, signage, decorations, research posters, and the tables for ID lanyards, swag, coffee, and meals! Thank you, Ben, Bobby, Daniel, Elaine, Gracie, Mohammad, Nina, Riyan, Rudy, and Thiago!

And another special thank you to the session co-chairs: Palmer Lab postdocs Dr. Montana Lara and Dr. Zachary Tatom and Palmer Lab graduate students Apurva Chitre and Denghui Chen.

See also: Palmer Lab Photo Gallery for more photos.

If you are interested in attending a future Retreat, please contact Abraham Palmer - aap@ucsd.edu.