Category Archive for : ‘Palmer Lab News’

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.

Update: title changed to “Distinct Behavioral Profiles and Neuronal Correlates of Heroin Vulnerability Versus Resiliency in a Multi-Symptomatic Model of Heroin Use Disorder in Rats.”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230623

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.

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.