Nina joined the Palmer Lab in July 2024 as a laboratory/animal assistant.
She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a bachelor of science degree in Microbiology, and she plans to pursue graduate school.
Welcome, Nina!
The manuscript titled ”Rare and Common Variants Associated with Alcohol Consumption Identify a Conserved Molecular Network” was accepted in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members: Brittany Leger and Abraham A Palmer.
The manuscript titled “A multi-symptomatic model of heroin use disorder in rats reveals distinct behavioral profiles and neuronal correlates of heroin vulnerability versus resiliency” was accepted in the American Journal of Psychiatry.*
*check back for DOI/links after publication
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.
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for Loma Linda University’s Center for Genomics seminar series, titled “Using genetics to understand addiction,” held on campus at Loma Linda on April 18, 2024.
He was hosted by Dr. Charles Wang, MD, PhD, MPH, the founding director of the Center.
The manuscript titled “Genome-Wide Association Studies of Coffee Intake in UK/US Participants of European Ancestry Uncover Cohort-Specific Genetic Associations” was accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology.
(Check back for updates/links after publication.)
Drs. Sanchez-Roige and Palmer gave a talk for the Center for Addiction Science and Treatment (CeFAST)* meeting on April 12, 2024, hosted by Dr. Carla Marienfeld, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego.
The manuscript titled “Do polygenic indices capture “direct” effects on child externalizing behavior problems? Within-family analyses in two longitudinal birth cohorts” was accepted in Clinical Psychological Science.
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.
