The Short Course on the Genetics of Addiction 2015 was held at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine from August 24-30. Alex Gileta, Xinzhu Zhou, April Williams, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer attended. Dr. Palmer co-organizes the course along with Elissa Chesler (Jax Labs) and Wade Berrettini (UPenn).
Dr. Palmer presented at the Cellular Biology of Addiction course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The workshop is an interdisciplinary look into the cellular and molecular biology of drug addiction.
The first Rat Genetics and Genomics for Psychiatric Disorders and Addiction workshop was held on Monday June 29th in the Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Speakers from all over the world came to discuss recent advances in rat genetics and genomics as well as the genetics of substance abuse and addiction. See the full schedule here!
Dr. Abraham Palmer presented a talk titled “Center for GWAS in outbred rats: current activities and opportunities for future collaborations”. Three Palmer Lab members (current graduate students Katherine McMurray & Alex Gileta,
Dr. Palmer delivered the keynote lecture at the 1st Finnish Symposium of Biological Psychiatry on the University of Helsinki campus on May 18th. His talk was titled “Using quantitative genetic techniques to elucidate molecular mechanisms of behavior”.
Dr. Palmer presented at the Neuroscience Integrative Center for Addictions’ Seminar Series at the University of California – Los Angeles this week. His talk was titled “Quantitative Behavioral Genetics”.
Dr. Palmer presented at the Human Genetics Seminar for the University of Chicago Department of Human Genetics on Monday March 9, 2015. His talk was titled “Quantitative Behavioral Genetics”.
The 53rd annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) was held in Phoenix, AZ from December 7-11.
Dr. Palmer was promoted from Associate to Full Member and gave a talk; Natalia Gonzales, Clarissa Parker, and Camron Bryant presented posters.
Dr. Palmer presented at the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology Colloquium at the University of California – San Diego last week, hosted by Jonathan Sebat, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genetic Medicine. His talk was titled “Using quantitative genetic studies to understand the brain”.
