On June 27, 2025, Dr. Abraham Palmer presented at the Festschrift event held in honor of Harriet de Wit at the University of Chicago.
He co-organized the event with Hanna Molla (University of Chicago).
Brittany gave a talk titled “Getting the runaround: is the locomotor response to a novel environment a model of human externalizing behavior?” for the 18th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat at UC San Diego on May 23, 2025.
The Palmer Lab ran a booth at Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago featuring our RATTACA project.
The conference was held at the McCormick Place Convention Center from October 5-9, 2024.
Eight members from the Palmer Lab attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 2 to 5, 2024.
The 10th Annual P50/P30 Retreat was held on Friday, September 6, 2024 at the University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely! We hope you found the talks and discussions informative and made connections with new HS rats/GWAS colleagues.
Presenters, talk recordings, and photos are available on the P50/P30 Center website. (ratgenes.org)
Dr. Palmer was invited to present at the third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Newry, Maine on August 18-23, 2024.
He gave a talk titled “Studying Intermediate Phenotypes to Elucidate the Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders” during the concurrent Neurobiology of Drug Addiction meeting.
Dr. Palmer hosted and presented a talk at a summit for fellow Glo1 researchers at UC San Diego on April 19, 2024. The summit was an occasion for researchers who are working on Glyoxalase 1 (Glo1) to meet and hear about one another’s projects.
Palmer Lab member and UC San Diego Biomedical Sciences graduate student Brittany Leger presented a research poster at the 19th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium on April 25, 2024.
