Category Archive for : ‘Talks & Conferences’

The Society for Neuroscience’s 46th annual meeting was held in San Diego from November 12-16th. Amanda Barkley-Levenson, Laura Sittig, and Celine St. Pierre presented posters.

Dr. Abraham Palmer presented at the Neuroscience And Behavior Seminar series at the University of California Santa Barbara on November 4th. His talk was titled “Using quantitative behavioral genetics to understand biology”.

The 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from October 18-22. Dr. Palmer presented at a session organized by 23andMe. His talk was titled “Studying impulsivity, alcoholism, and loneliness using in person and internet-based phenotyping”. Read the press release about the event here.

Dr. Abraham Palmer presented at the Genetic Seminar Series at Emory University School of Medicine on October 3rd. His talk was titled “Behavioral genetics: from discovery to translation”.

Dr. Palmer presented at the Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar Series at Virginia Commonwealth University on May 5th. His talk was titled “Quantitative Genetic Studies of Behavior in Mice, Rats and Humans”.

Dr. Palmer presented at the Psychiatry Grand Rounds at the University of Michigan on May 4th, hosted by Dr. Shelly Flagel. His talk was titled “GWAS for Behavioral, Physiological and Gene Expression Traits in Mice and Rats, How We Do It and What Do We Learn?”.

The Oriental Congress of Laboratory Medicine held their 2015 annual meeting at the Shanghai International Convention Center on December 10-12, 2015. Dr. Jianjun Gao was invited to present his talk, “Genome-wide association study of Loneliness demonstrates a role for common variation”. The event organizers covered all fees related to the meeting.

The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s 54th annual meeting was held in Hollywood, Florida from December 6-10th.

Dr. Abraham Palmer chaired a panel titled “Genetic Approaches to Delay Discounting: Human and Non-Human Animal Approaches”, which included NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats collaborator Jerry Richards. The research discussed here has generated significant media interest!

Former Palmer Lab members Clarissa Parker and Camron Bryant also attended ACNP. Clarissa Parker presented a poster.

The Conte Center at the University of Chicago held its 4th annual Brain Awareness Day on October 24, 2015. The event gathered over 100 high school students, teachers, and other guests.

Brain Awareness Day was supported in part by the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats. Oksana Polesskaya (Scientific Coordinator) presented an overview of the Center’s research.

Nicholas Grahame, Ph.D., Eva E. Redei, Ph.D., and Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D. delivered lectures on topics related to brain research. Graduate students form University of Chicago prepared demonstrations ranging from fixed human brains to electrophysiology

The Society for Neuroscience’s 45th annual meeting was held in Chicago from October 17-21st. Alex Gileta, Katherine McMurray, Kayla Chase and Celine St. Pierre presented posters.