Category Archive for : ‘Talks & Conferences’

Dr. Palmer was invited to speak at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of Southern California last week. His talk was hosted by James Knowles, Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry for Research.

Kat McMurray’s scientific abstract, “GLO1 inhibition as a novel fast-acting antidepressant,” has been accepted for presentation in a nanosymposium at Neuroscience 2014.

Neuroscience 2014 will be held on Nov 15-19, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Camila’s talk was titled “The diabetic brain: identifying the epistatic effects of the Akita mouse mutant allele (Ins2C96Y ) on physiological and behavioral phenotypes in a panel of F1 mice”

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His talk was titled “GWAS and eQTL in outbred laboratory mice.”

The 16th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) was held in Chicago from May 10-13.

Camron Bryant, Clarissa Parker and Laura Sittig gave talks.

Alex Gileta, Natalia Gonzales, Kat Johnston McMurray and Celine St. Pierre presented posters.

Dr. Abraham Palmer invited for Department of Genetics Seminar at University of Washington St. Louis. His talk was titled “Mice, rats, humans, drug abuse, psychiatric genetics and more.”

Dr. Abraham Palmer presents at Addiction Seminar series at Northwestern University.  His talk was titled “Letters from the trenches: using genetic approaches in mice, rats and humans to gain mechanistic insights into addiction and other psychiatric diseases.”

Dr. Palmer presented his talk, “Behavioral Genetic Studies in Mice and Men” at North Carolina State University on Monday Nov 25.  He also spoke at UNC Chapel Hill and at the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics Seminar hosted by UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy on Tuesday Nov 26.

Dr. Abraham Palmer visited collaborators at Medical College of Milwaukee (Leah Solberg) and University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (Alexander Arnold). He gave a talk called “There and back again: integrated use of forward and reverse genetics to study behavioral and physiological traits in mice (and soon rats!)”

He also dropped his 1977 VW Bus off with trusted VW mechanic Jake Henes of Riverwest Auto.

The Palmer Lab traveled to the CTC2013 meeting in Madison Wisconsin. Natalia Gonzales’ abstract was selected for a talk. In addition Amy Hart, Carissa Parker, Laura Sittig and Shyam Gopalakrishnan presented posters. Dr. Abraham Palmer was part of a discussion panel on the last day.