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.
Apurva Chitre was invited to speak at the American Physiology Summit, the flagship meeting of the American Physiological Society, which took place in Long Beach, California, from April 4-7, 2024.
The talk, titled “Genome-wide association study of adiposity in Heterogeneous Stock rats,” was part of the session It Takes All Strains: Rodent Genetic Diversity in Physiological Studies.
Jean is currently rotating in the Palmer Lab for Spring 2024 (April-June) as a student in the Bioinformatics and System Biology (BISB) graduate program.
On March 19, 2024, Drs. Palmer and Sanchez-Roige presented their talk,”Ten years of collaboration with 23andMe: what we’ve learned about behavioral genetics and where we are going,” at 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.
Dr. Palmer gave a talk for UCLA’s Integrative Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics (ICNG) Seminar Series, titled “Genetic approaches to understanding substance use disorder and other behaviors: integrative studies using humans and rats.”
Gavrila (“Gavi”) joined the Palmer Lab in January 2024, working as a Data Processes Information Systems Analyst with the Bioinformatics team. She graduated from San Diego State University with a master’s degree in Bioinformatics.
Welcome, Gavi!
Anjali is currently rotating in the Palmer Lab for Winter 2024 (January-March) as a student in the Bioinformatics and System Biology (BISB) graduate program.
…we are pleased to celebrate the 100th generation of HS Rats!
Palmer Lab has marked this momentous occasion with festivities at a few recent events.
Lab members and guests enjoyed another beautiful La Jolla sunset together at the annual Palmer Lab holiday party and white elephant gift exchange on December 15, 2023.
Note that the UC San Diego campus will be closed from December 25, 2023 through January 2, 2024.
