Our laboratory includes various types of trainees: undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Research projects incorporate both wet and dry lab skills and include individuals with behavioral neuroscience, molecular genetics and statistical genetics backgrounds.
Postdoctoral fellows interested in joining the Palmer Lab should contact Dr. Abraham Palmer directly.
(see current open postdoctoral position below)
Graduate students who have been accepted to a relevant graduate program (Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology) are encouraged to contact Dr. Abraham Palmer to arrange a rotation. Dr. Palmer is also a faculty mentor for the UCSD Genetics Training Program, open to second year UCSD graduate students.
We also sometimes have opportunities for outstanding undergraduate students; they should contact Dr. Abraham Palmer directly.
Open Postdoctoral position:
Overview
A postdoctoral position is available at University of California San Diego to study the genome-wide contribution of tandem repeat and structural variants to tobacco use disorder and related traits. Candidates should have statistical genetics experience including analyzing data from genome-wide association studies.
Start Date: July 2025 or shortly thereafter
Duration: At least two years with the possibility of extension
Salary: Salary and benefits will be consistent with UC San Diego policies
Requirements
- PhD in genetics, statistics, computational biology or bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field
- Published research on genetics and genomics of complex traits
- Programming in Python, R or similar, and high-performance computing skills using GitHub or similar tools
- Experience with genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
Desirable
- Experience with psychiatric and substance use disorders or related traits (or interest in this field)
- Experience with multi-ancestry methods
- Commitment to open science and reproducible analysis pipelines
Training environment
Interdisciplinary environment spanning the School of Medicine and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The candidate will work on a project that was recently funded by the State of California (Tobacco Related Disease Research Program; TRDRP). The project combines population genetics of complex variants and substance use disorders. The applicant will be co-mentored and interact with a collaborative team: Melissa Gymrek, Abraham Palmer, Sandra Sanchez-Roige and Alon Goren.
Contact
Interested candidates should send a CV and a cover letter to Melissa Gymrek (mgymrek@ucsd.edu) and Abraham Palmer (aap@ucsd.edu).
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