Manuscript accepted in Molecular Psychiatry
The manuscript titled “Polygenic Contributions to Performance on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task” was accepted in Molecular Psychiatry.
Update: Molecular Psychiatry (2023) online ahead of print. (Aug. 15)
Faith Okamoto recognized as outstanding research undergraduate with two recent honors!
Congratulations, Faith!
Recipient of the Gabriele Wienhausen Biological Sciences Scholarship for 2023-2024 at UC San Diego and a second runner-up for the 2023 Triton Student Employee of the Year Award!
Dr. Montana Lara joins the Palmer Lab
Montana joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Vermont.
Her previous research examined the effects of genetic diversity on electrophysiological and neurobehavioral traits in epilepsy mouse models.
Dr. Robert Vogel joins the Palmer Lab
Robert joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. He holds a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and he completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, IBM Research, and Scripps Research.
Manuscript accepted in Genome Research
Abraham Palmer is an author on the manuscript titled “A Novel Quantitative Trait Locus Implicates Msh3 in the Propensity for Genome-wide Short Tandem Repeat Expansions in Mice,” which was recently accepted for publication in Genome Research.
Manuscript accepted in Scientific Reports
The manuscript titled “Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.
Scientific Reports, volume 13, article number: 7027 (2023)
Manuscript accepted in Cell Reports
The manuscript “Genome-wide Association Studies of Human and Rat BMI Converge on Synapse, Epigenome, and Hormone Signaling Networks” has been provisionally accepted for publication as a research article at Cell Reports.
Published: Cell Reports, 2023, August 29, Volume 42, Issue 8, 112873
Manuscript accepted in Translational Psychiatry
The manuscript titled “CADM2 is Implicated in Impulsive Personality and Numerous Other Traits by Genome- and Phenome-wide Association Studies in Humans and Mice” was accepted in Translational Psychiatry.
Published in Translational Psychiatry: 12 May 2023
Manuscript accepted in BioData Mining
The manuscript titled “Automated Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis (AutoQTL)” was accepted in BioData Mining.
Published in BioData Mining: 10 April 2023
Dr. Benjamin Johnson joins the Palmer Lab
Ben Johnson joined the Bioinformatics team at Palmer Lab in March 2023. He received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University with concentrations in Ecological Genetics, Population Biology, Systematics, and Physiological Ecology.
Welcome, Ben!
