Category Archive for : ‘Talks & Conferences’

Several members from the Palmer Lab attended the 20th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held in Memphis, Tennessee from October 8 to 12, 2023.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming 9th (and final) Annual Retreat for the P50 Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats!

The Retreat will take place on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the University of California San Diego.

Dr. Palmer gave a talk titled “RatGTEx: eQTL Mapping and the use of Heterogeneous Stock Rats for Biomedical Research” at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference in San Diego this week, during the Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project session. He presented details on Heterogeneous Stock (HS) rats, mapping Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL), and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. The abstract of his talk is linked here.

The Palmer Lab will be running a booth at Neuroscience 2022, hosted by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). This convention will be held at the San Diego Convention Center from November 12 – November 16, 2022.

Our booth, Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats, is located in Hall B, Booth #3229, and will be featuring our new RATTACA project. We hope to see you there!

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) was held in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community at the University of Colorado on September 29th and 30th, 2022. Palmer lab members, Dr. Palmer, Dr. Polesskaya, Apurva Chitre, Brittany Leger, and Denghui Chen had attended and presented in person. Post Docs Dan Munro and Joel Leal Gutierrez had attended and presented virtually.

See program details here!

Dr Abraham Palmer, Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige and Palmer lab member Elizabeth Alcantara attended the 45th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism conference in Orlando, Florida on June 25-29, 2022.

Dr. Abraham Palmer presented a talk titled, “Genetic Relationship Between Impulsivity and Heavy Drinking”. He also served as a discussant for another integrated symposium.

Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige presented a talk titled, “Genetic Liability to Alcohol Use and Misuse Correlates with Biomedical Conditions”. She also won the RSA Early Career Investigator Award.

Elizabeth Alcantara presented a poster titled, “Investigating the Role of Glyoxalase 1 as a

Dr. Abraham Palmer was a speaker at the 2022 Annual Behavioral Genetics Association (BGA) Meeting in Los Angeles.  He presented a talk titled “Methods for transferring polygenic signals between species” on June 25th, 2022. See details here.

Dr. Abraham Palmer and Dr. Oksana Polesskaya attended the 23rd Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior meeting at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, May 23-27th, 2022.

Dr. Palmer gave a talk titled “Overview of the NIDA center for genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats”, at the Genetic studies of drug addiction-related traits in outbred rats symposium, which was chaired by Dr. Polesskaya.

See details here!

The 7th Annual Retreat for the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats was held on 11/4/2021. Investigators from the P50 Center, as well as PIs of the grants affiliated with the Center, gave short talks about their projects, followed by discussion. A closed advisory board meeting was held the following day.

The 2021 Complex Trait Consortium (CTC) meeting was held virtually from Manchester, UK from September 1-3, 2021.

Abraham Palmer, Oksana Polesskaya,  Daniel Munro, Brittany Leger, Milad Mortazavi, Apurva Chitre, Joel Leal-Gutierrez, and Denghui Chen has attended.