Dr. Palmer gave a talk during the Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) on June 17, 2026.
Dr. Palmer’s talk, “How it Begins: Initial Response to Opioids Strongly Predicts Self-Reported Opioid Use Disorder,” was part of the symposium session titled “Opioid Sensitivity as a Testable Behavioral Phenotype for Extramedical Opioid Use,” organized by Kelly Dunn.
Dr. Montana Lara was invited to give a talk at N@N—Neuroscience at Nemours—on June 17, 2026.
Dr. Lara’s talk, “Decoding complex neurobehavioral traits using multivariate genomic approaches” was hosted by Nemours Children’s Hospital and the University of Delaware.
Dr. Palmer gave a talk titled “The surprise appearance of an XY female, characterizing a spontaneous mutation in the HS rat colony” during the monthly Rat Genome meeting organized by Hao Chen (on behalf of the International Rat Omics Consortium (IROC).
…fertile XY females, and XXY and XYY individuals that were part of a multigenerational pedigree…
Dr. Montana Lara received a travel scholarship from the International Mammalian Genome Society (IMGS) to attend the 39th International Mammalian Genome Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland on April 7-10, 2026!
Dr. Palmer was invited to give the annual Mark Gold Translational Neuroscience Lecture at Washington University in St. Louis on March 30, 2026.
Dr. Palmer’s talk, “Understanding the polygenic influences on putatively similar behaviors in humans and rodents” was hosted by Ryan Bogdan, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences.
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige and Dr. Palmer were invited to visit the 23andMe Research Institute to discuss their longtime project collaboration. On March 17, 2026, they presented their talk, “A Decade of Discovery in Addiction Genetics — the Best Is Yet to Come,” at the 23andMe Research Institute headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.
Dr. Palmer gave a talk titled “Genetic evidence supports a relationship between locomotor activity in a novel environment in rodents a human externalizing behavior” at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) annual team meeting for Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research on September 11, 2025 at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD.
His talk was during the session titled “Harnessing Model Organism Genetics and Genomics in the Understanding the Role of Human Genetic Variation in SUDs,” which he co-chaired with Dr. Elissa Chesler.
Dr. Abraham Palmer and Palmer Lab postdoc Zachary Tatom attended the 48th Annual Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) Scientific Meeting/ISBRA Congress in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 21-25, 2025.
Dr. Palmer served as Co-chair, Organizer, and Discussant for the Identifying Genes, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Alcohol Use Disorder: Progress From Forward and Reverse Genetics Symposium.
Zack presented a talk at the symposium titled “Anxiety Phenotype Components Predict Ethanol Consumption Magnitude and Progression in a Genetic Analysis with Diversity Outbred Mice.”
See the Photo Gallery for RSA 2025 photos!
Palmer Lab member and UC San Diego Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate student Jean Gonzalez presented research titled “Subjective Response to Opioids Predicts Risk for Opioid Use Disorder” at the 20th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium on June 12, 2025.
Brittany gave a talk titled “Getting the runaround: is the locomotor response to a novel environment a model of human externalizing behavior?” for the 18th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat at UC San Diego on May 23, 2025.
