Yixuan (Ivy) Xin joined the Palmer Lab in May 2025 as part of the Research Experiences for High School and Undergraduate Students (REHU) summer program.
Ivy is an undergraduate at UC San Diego with research interests in machine learning, sleep, mental disorders, and substance use disorders.
Welcome, Ivy!
Dr. Daniel Munro has been promoted to Assistant Project Scientist!
Congratulations, Daniel!
We are pleased to announce that after a department-wide search, Dr. Abraham Palmer has been selected to continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Palmer commenced the role of Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in 2016.
Dr. Palmer and two members of the Palmer Lab attended the annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 5-9, 2024.
Brittany Leger and Sabrina Mi each presented a poster at the meeting.
Our recently-funded NIDA P30 Center grant was announced in the campus publication UC San Diego Today.
The article is titled “UC San Diego Awarded $8 Million to Uncover Genetic Foundations of Substance Use Disorders.”
Gracie Ang, Dr. Benjamin Johnson, April Jones, Elaine Keung, Dr. Daniel Munro, and Dr. Thiago Missfeldt Sanches have been selected as 2024 STAR Award Recipients in recognition of and appreciation for their outstanding service and enduring contribution to the advancement of the psychiatry department’s teaching, research, clinical and public service missions.
Congratulations!
Zachary Tatom joined the Palmer Lab as a postdoctoral scholar in October 2024 after receiving his PhD in human and molecular genetics from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome, Zachary!
The manuscript titled ”PAGER: A Novel Genotype Encoding Strategy for Modeling Deviations from Additivity in Complex Trait Association Studies” was accepted in BioData Mining.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva S. Chitre and Abraham A. Palmer.
Congratulations!
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk at the University of California Irvine (UCI) for the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior’s ICAN seminar series, titled “Genetic approaches to understanding substance use disorders and other psychiatric and behavioral traits using humans and rodents,” held on campus at UCI on September 17, 2024.
The manuscript titled ”Y and Mitochondrial Chromosomes in the Heterogeneous Stock Rat Population” was accepted in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics.
Authors include recent and current Palmer Lab members: Faith Okamoto, Apurva S Chitre, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Denghui Chen, Daniel Munro, Benjamin B Johnson, Khai-Minh H Nguyen, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham A Palmer.
Congratulations!
