2023
December 2023
Palmer Lab holiday party
December 15, 2023
Good luck, Shae! Good luck, Beverly!
ACNP meeting in Tampa, FL
December 3-6, 2023
December 5, 2023
Dinner with the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry group at Anchor & Brine in Tampa, Florida during the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting.
(Dr. Palmer is pictured in the center of the group!)
November 2023
November 7, 2023
Complex Traits Journal Club (hosted by Mamad Ahangari from Sebat Lab); Palmer Lab attended in support of fellow member, Den Chen who presented on one of the papers that led to CATlas.
(Dr. Palmer proposes that we develop a rat version and call it RATlas...and the logo could feature a cat chasing a rat!)
Palmer Lab members (at the conference table, along the window): Den Chen, Montana Lara, Elaine Keung, Faith Okamoto, Bobby Vogel, Thiago Sanches, Dr. Palmer, Brittany Leger, Yizhi Wang, and Clara Ortez.
Comprehensive atlas for regulatory elements and functional annotations
October 2023
9th Annual P50 Center Retreat
October 27, 2023
Additional photos and video recordings of the talks are available at ratgenes.org.
October 19, 2023
Dinner at Duke's La Jolla after Nancy Cox's presentation for the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology Colloquium at UC San Diego.
From left: Sandra Sanchez-Roige (Sanchez-Roige Lab, UC San Diego), Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Dr. Palmer, Terry Gaasterland (Director, BISB Program, UC San Diego)
20th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) | Rat Genome & Models
Memphis, Tennessee (October 8-12, 2023)
The CTC Crew! (Palmer Lab members, from left: Thiago, Den, Oksana, Dr. Palmer, Montana, Apurva)
Exploring the campus at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
CTC Talks
Palmer Lab member Joel Leal Gutierrez gave his CTC talk remotely.
Celebrating the 100th generation of HS rats at CTC with fellow HS rats researchers!
Dinners and HS rats discussions with Palmer Lab collaborators
Memphis, TN
July 2023
Lab Lunch
July 19, 2023
(back row, from left): April, Bobby, Den, Ben, Oksana, Shae, Faith, Riyan, Khai.
A fun lunch together—talking about projects and celebrating our newest Palmer Lab members: summer/REHU students, Mika and Brandon, and recent hires, Montana, Bobby, Yizhi, and Ishita!
Delicious catered Indian cuisine was organized by lab member Apurva Chitre.
Thesis defense
July 6, 2023
Jessica Zhou’s thesis defense at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA.
Dr. Palmer was part of Jessica's thesis committee. (from left: Graham McVicker, Trey Ideker, Kyle Gaulton, Abraham Palmer, Jessica Zhou, Francesca Telese, Bing Ren)
Congratulations, Jessica!
Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) meeting
Bellevue, Washington (June 24-28, 2023)
(from left to right: Michelle Doyle, Olivier George, Tamara Phillips, Abraham Palmer, Giordano de Guglielmo, Tom Jhou, Chris King, Mehdi Esmaeili-Fard)
April 14, 2023
Celebrating our student lab members and their mentors for National Student Employment Week!
Dr. Palmer hosted lunch on campus at Underbelly for students Faith Okamoto, Emily Cameron, Cristina Comacchio, and Justin Park—and recent graduate Annie Choi!—and mentors Clara Ortez, Beverly Peng, and Apurva Chitre.
March 27-29, 2023
Apurva Chitre and former Palmer Lab member Alex Gileta at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Agricultural meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
January 26, 2023
Pejman Mohammadi and Abraham Palmer at Mandarin House in La Jolla
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