Category Archive for : ‘Palmer Lab News’

• “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 

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.

Amy Hart defended her thesis, “Investigating genetic influences on drug response and psychiatric phenotypes” this morning and it was approved by her committee.  Congratulations, Amy!

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 4^th 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!

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.

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!

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”.

Summer will be working with two mentors: Drs. Abraham Palmer and Stephanie Dulawa. Summer is a member of the Committee on Neurobiology and will initially be supported by the Training in Neural Systems Training Grant.

Lab members Camron Bryant and Margaret Distler were both married on July 7, 2012… but not to each other… Camron married Galum and Margaret married Will. Congrats and best wishes to them all. Photos anyone?

More located here: http://matushekphotography.com/margaret-will-married/

Kat is the newest addition to the lab; she is a member of the Committee on Neurobiology and will be supported by the Training in Drug Abuse Research Training Grant.