21
April
Emily Leung will be attending Columbia University in NYC this fall!
Emily will start her MPH at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in NYC this fall!
21
April
Camila Camacho will be attending Tufts University in Boston this fall!
Camila will start her PhD in Neuroscience at the Sackler School for Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University in Boston this fall!
10
April
Numerous press releases and online articles accompany Amy Hart’s and Abraham Palmer’s PNAS article about amphetamine, schizophrenia and ADHD
- “Liking Amphetamine Linked to Reduced Risk of Mental Disorder,” featured on The Scientist
- “Genetic Predisposition To Liking Amphetamine Reduces Risk Of Schizophrenia And ADHD” featured on Science Life
- “Genetic predisposition to liking amphetamine reduces risk of schizophrenia and ADHD” featured on The University of Chicago Medicine 2014 Press Releases
- “Enjoy The Feeling Of Adderall? You May Be Less Likely To Develop ADHD” featured on Popular Science
- “Genes for ‘Liking’ Amphetamine Lower Schizophrenia, ADHD Risk” featured on Medscape Medical News (Psychiatry)
- Almetric score: 95- article in the top 5% of all articles ranked by attention
10
September
Alex Gileta joins Palmer Lab!
Alex Gileta, a second year human genetics graduate student, has decided to join the lab. His initial project will focus on a GWAS study of almost 3000 genetically heterogeneous rats, phenotyped for incentive salience at the University of Michigan by Shelly Flagel and Terry Robinson, and genotyped by reduced representation sequencing.
25
July
22
February
Clarissa Parker accepts job at Middlebury College
Clarissa Parker has officially accepted an offer for an Assistant Professor position at Middlebury College in Vermont. Located in the quaint New England town of Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College offers scenic mountain views and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. It was recently ranked as the 4th best liberal arts college in the nation by US News and World Report. Clarissa will be joining the faculty there as an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. Congratulations to Clarissa!
30
October
Camron Bryant leaves for Boston
Camron leaves the lab to start his new job in Boston. He will be assuming the position of Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
28
September
Camron Bryant accepts position at Boston University
Camron Bryant, Research Associate in the Palmer Lab, has officially accepted an offer for an Assistant Professor position at Boston University School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. There, Camron will complete the R00 phase of his K99/R00 award, “Genetic Basis of Opioid Reward and Aversion.” Congratulations to Camron!
10
September
Amy Hart Receives GSA Travel Fund
Congratulations to Amy Hart, the recipient of a Graduate Student Affairs Travel Fund. Amy will be using her travel award to attend the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Hamburg, Germany this October. Her presentation is entitled “Small candidate gene studies of the acute response to amphetamine fail to replicate”.