Montana Lara attends ASHG 2026 in Montreal

Palmer Lab postdoc Dr. Montana Lara attended the annual meeting for the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) held in Montreal, Canada from October 20-24, 2026.

During the meeting, Montana moderated the symposium "Translational Models for Substance Use Disorders."

She also presented the poster "A data-driven framework for identifying heritable dimensions of complex choice behavior," authored by Montana Kay Lara (Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego), Nicole O. Yokota (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco), Christina Y. Lee (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco), Thiago Missfeldt Sanches (Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego), Oksana Polesskaya (Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego), Abraham A. Palmer (Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego), Suzanne H. Mitchell (Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University), Peter Dayan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University of Tübingen), & David B. Kastner (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)

Earlier this year, Montana was selected by ASHG to be a scholar in the Human Genetics Scholars Initiative (HGSI) program for 2026-2028! (see her bio on the ASHG website announcement here)

(Current Palmer Lab members)

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) - Montreal, Canada