Drs. Amanda Barkley-Levenson and Sandra Sanchez-Roige have each received a Young Investigator Travel Award to attend the Genes, Brian and Behavior 2017 meeting of the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) in Madrid, Spain. These awards will help defray the costs of their travel and lodging and are generously supported by NIAAA. Congratulations both!
Laura Sittig was selected from among 350 applications as a Travel Awardee for this year’s meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She will present at ACNP 2016 in Hollywood, Florida this December. She will attend special receptions and luncheons with ACNP leadership as well as participate in a coveted Travel Awardee poster session. All of her travel, lodging, and registration fees will also be paid by the award. Congratulations, Laura!
The Behavioral Neuroscience graduate program at UC San Diego was named the best in the nation Wednesday March 17th 2016 by U.S. News & World Report.
Many other programs at UCSD and San Diego State University were also highly ranked. See the full rankings here!
In recognition of her outstanding presentation at the 29th International Mammalian Genome Conference, Natalia Gonzales was awarded the book “Genetics of the Mouse” from Springer.
The name of her talk was “Genetic architecture of behavior in an advanced intercross line of mice” during the plenary session “Large Scale Resources”.
Congratulations, Natalia!
Natalia Gonzales has won the International Mammalian Genome Conference Trainee Scholarship to support her attendance to IMGC 2015 and the associated Trainee Symposium. This scholarship covers her travel, lodging, and conference registration costs.
Congratulations, Natalia!
The first Rat Genetics and Genomics for Psychiatric Disorders and Addiction workshop was held on Monday June 29th in the Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Speakers from all over the world came to discuss recent advances in rat genetics and genomics as well as the genetics of substance abuse and addiction. See the full schedule here!
Dr. Abraham Palmer presented a talk titled “Center for GWAS in outbred rats: current activities and opportunities for future collaborations”. Three Palmer Lab members (current graduate students Katherine McMurray & Alex Gileta,
The Palmer Lab had a big showing at the Rat Genetics and Genomics for Psychiatric Disorders and Addiction workshop on June 29th: Katherine McMurray, Alex Gileta, and Yu-yu Ren presented their work and all won “Best Poster” awards. Congratulations, you three!
Natalia Gonzales has won an award to attend both the Seminar and Conference portions of the Quantitative Genetics and Genomics meeting of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference in Lucca (Barga), Italy. The USDA Animal Genetics conference award covers the costs of her travel and registration fees. Congratulations, Natalia!
Natalia Gonzales & Dr. Abraham Palmer attended the Complex Trait Consortium 13th Annual Meeting that was held in Berlin, Germany from May 19-22, 2014. Natalia also wins Best Poster Award!
The Epstein Trainee Award for excellence in human genetics research is awarded by the American Society of Human Genetics. It is a merit-based award that recognizes highly competitive abstracts submitted and presented at the ASHG Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Shyam!
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