Category Archive for : ‘Funding & Grants’

Dr. Abraham Palmer’s NIDA R01 Supplement titled, “Administrative Supplement for Research on Sex/Gender Differences,” was funded!

The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) offers administrative supplements to accelerate research on sex/gender differences (or similarities) and/or sex and gender factors in human health and illness, including preclinical, clinical and behavioral studies.

We plan to map sex-specific QTLs and brain eQTLs. The main traits of interest are methamphetamine-conditioned place preference and the locomotor response to methamphetamine, but we’ll also look at sex effects in the prepulse inhibition, glucose and body weight data.

The grant is titled “Integrated GWAS of complex behavioral and gene expression traits in outbred rats” and involved collaborators from University of Michigan (Terry Robbinson and Shelly Flagel, SUNY Buffalo (Jerry Richards, Paul Meyer and Joe Lucke), University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (Hao Chen) and Medical College of Wisconsin (Leah Solberg Woods).

Two predoctoral student fellowships are awarded annually.  The fellowships will cover all expenses for registration, travel, and lodging for the 2014 Statistical Genetics Short Course at UCLA. These fellowships are supported by NIH grants from the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (GM103774).

Click here for info about the 2014 Statistical Genetics Short Course

Dr. Laura Sittig’s Grant titled “Mapping epistatic modifiers of human psychiatric risk using mouse genetics“ was funded by the National Institutes of Health & National Institute of Mental Health.

Natalia’s F31 Grant titled “Integrative genetic analysis of methamphetamine’s motivational effects in mice” was funded by the National Institutes of Health & National Institute on Drug Abuse.

For more information about the the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, click here.

Dr. Palmer’s R21 grant titled “GWAS for goal versus sign tracking in genetically heterogeneous rats” was funded today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Terry Robinson and Shelley Flagel (Universty of Michigan) will be be co-investigators and Alex Gileta (University of Chicago–Palmer Lab) will be heading the project.

The Pilot and Feasibility award is titled “Mapping epistatic modifiers of diabetes using the Akita mouse model of pancreatic beta cell stress” and provides $35,000 to study epistatic interactions between the Akita mutation in the insulin protein and genetic modifiers. The award can be renewed for a second and final year.

More information about the DRTC can be found here: http://drtc.bsd.uchicago.edu/

Dr. Palmer’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant titled “Efficient discovery of epistatic modifiers of Cacna1c in mice: extending on GWAS”was funded today!

Clarissa submitted her application for the Brain and Behavior NARSAD Young Investigator Grant while she was still at Palmer Lab and will be using it to further her research at Middlebury College.  Congratulations, Clarissa!

The NARSAD Young Investigator Grant provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Two year awards up to $60,000, or $30,000 per year are provided to enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty.  For more information, here is the website.

This project will support two graduate students and two or three postdocs per year. The goal of this project is to train pre- and post-doctoral students in the methodology that will be important for the next generation of progress in understanding the genetics of psychiatric health and disease. The program will emphasize the integration of computational and statistical approaches to complex datasets as well as the use of hypothesis driven laboratory-based experiments. Trainees will be prepared for the coming decades, which will see an acceleration of the trend towards multidisciplinary