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THE LAB By identifying genes that influence behavior we hope to obtain fundamental mechanistic insights into the molecular basis of both health and disease RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENES AND BEHAVIOR Learn more

Drs. Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez Roige’s Article Accepted for Publication in Addiction Biology

The article, “Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder- and Substance-Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies,” has been accepted for publication in Addiction Biology. Drs. Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez Roige are co-authors along with Dr. Melissa Munn-Chernoff.

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Abraham Palmer January 16, 2020 Publications

Dr. Abraham Palmer named a Fellow in two professional organizations

Dr. Abraham Palmer has been named a Fellow (i.e., senior or honorary member) in two professional organizations: the American College of Neurpsychopharmacology (ACNP) and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS). Congratulations, Abe!

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Abraham Palmer December 22, 2019 Awards, Palmer Lab News

Dr. Amanda Barkley-Levenson receives promotion

Dr. Amanda Barkley-Levenson has been promoted to Assistant Project Scientist. The appointment began on December 1st. Congratulations, Amanda!

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Abraham Palmer December 21, 2019 Palmer Lab News

Drs. Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez Roige’s article accepted for publication in Psychological Medicine

The article, “Polygenic contributions to alcohol use and alcohol use disorders across population-based and clinically ascertained samples,” has been accepted for publication in Psychological Medicine. Drs. Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez Roige are co-authors along with Emma Johnson, Laura Acion, Kathleen Bucholz, Grace Chan, Michael Chao, David Chorlian, Danielle Dick, Howard Edenberg, Tatiana Foroud, Victor Hesselbrock, Sivan Kinreich, John Kramer, I C Kuo, Samuel Kuperman, Dongbing Lai, Jacquelyn Meyers, Martin Henry Plawecki, Bernice Porjesz, Marc Schuckit, Jinni Su, Yong Zhang, Mark James Adams, Caroline Hayward, Jon Heron, Matthew Hickman, Kenneth

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Abraham Palmer December 17, 2019 Publications

Khai-Minh Nguyen joins the Palmer lab

Khai Nguyen joined the Palmer Lab in December 2019 as a laboratory assistant. He graduated from UCI with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. He enjoys the research aspect of genetics in medicine and wishes to enter the medical field in the future. He likes adventuring, cycling, hiking, and road trips.

Welcome, Khai!

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Abraham Palmer December 16, 2019 Palmer Lab News

Dr. Abraham Palmer’s article accepted for publication in PNAS

The article, “Nociceptin attenuates the escalation of oxycodone self-administration by normalizing CeA-GABA transmission in highly addicted rats” has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author on the article.

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Abraham Palmer December 16, 2019 Publications

Drs. Amanda Barkley-Levenson and Abraham Palmer’s Article Accepted for Publication in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

The article, “Assessing the motivational effects of ethanol in mice using a discrete-trial current-intensity intracranial self-stimulation procedure,” has been accepted for publication in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Drs. Amanda Barkley-Levenson and Abraham Palmer are co-authors along with Andre Der-Avakian.

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Abraham Palmer December 5, 2019 Publications

Drs. Amelie Baud and Sandra Sanchez-Roige present at WCPG

Drs. Amelie Baud and Sandra Sanchez-Roige presented at the 2019 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Los Angeles, CA earlier this week.

Dr. Baud presented a talk entitled “Genetic effects from the social environment” in which she presented evidence that mouse and rat behaviours relevant to psychiatric disorders can be affected not only by the animal’s own genes but also by genes of cage mates. She also illustrated how such “indirect genetic effects” can be leveraged to dissect the mechanisms of social effects, more precisely to identify traits of social partners

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Abraham Palmer November 2, 2019 Talks & Conferences

Article co-authored by Drs. Abraham Palmer and Riyan Cheng accepted for publication in The American Journal of Human Genetics

The article titled “Genome-wide associations reveal human-mouse genetic convergence and modifiers of myogenesis, CPNE1 and STC2” has been accepted for publication in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Drs. Palmer and Riyan Cheng are co-authors along with Arimantas Lionikas, Ana Isabel Hernández Cordero, Natalia Gonzales, Clarissa Parker, David John Vandenbergh, Mark Abney, Andrew Skol, Alex Douglas, and Jenny Gregory. Find  the full article here.

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Abraham Palmer October 29, 2019 Publications

Dr. Abraham Palmer Quoted in NZZ Folio

Dr. Palmer was recently quoted in an article about genes and personality in the German magazine “NZZ Folio.” Find the full article here.

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Abraham Palmer October 28, 2019 Interviews
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Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research, Department of Psychiatry

Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 1999

B.A., Biology, The University of Chicago, 1992

Mail Code: 0667
Biomedical Research Facility II (BRF2); 3A24
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0667

Email: aapalmer@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2093
Twitter: @AbePalmer

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Director, NIDA National Center of Excellence for GWAS in Outbred Rats

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