The award presentation took place during the weekly Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series and included Dr. Palmer’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture, “Understanding addiction through the lens of genetics.”
Congratulations, Dr. Palmer!
Eight members from the Palmer Lab attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 2 to 5, 2024.
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.
Dr. Palmer was invited to present at the third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Newry, Maine on August 18-23, 2024.
He gave a talk titled “Studying Intermediate Phenotypes to Elucidate the Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders” during the concurrent Neurobiology of Drug Addiction meeting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Palmer gave a talk for UCLA’s Integrative Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics (ICNG) Seminar Series, titled “Genetic approaches to understanding substance use disorder and other behaviors: integrative studies using humans and rats.”
The 9th Annual Retreat for the P50 Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats was a success! The Retreat was held on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely on Zoom! We hope you found the talks informative and made connections with new HS rats/GWAS colleagues.
