The 10th Annual P50/P30 Retreat was held on Friday, September 6, 2024 at the University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely! We hope you found the talks and discussions informative and made connections with new HS rats/GWAS colleagues.
Presenters, talk recordings, and photos are available on the P50/P30 Center website. (ratgenes.org)
Dr. Palmer was invited to present at the third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Newry, Maine on August 18-23, 2024.
He gave a talk titled “Studying Intermediate Phenotypes to Elucidate the Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders” during the concurrent Neurobiology of Drug Addiction meeting.
The NIDA Core Center of Excellence grant titled, “Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats,” has been awarded to Drs. Abraham Palmer, Pejman Mohammadi, Oksana Polesskaya, and Leah Solberg Woods.
Congratulations!
Rudy started at the Palmer Lab as a Lab Assistant in August 2024.
Prior, he obtained a BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Johns Hopkins University.
Welcome, Rudy!
The manuscript titled ”Genome-wide association study of delay discounting in Heterogenous Stock rats” was accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members: Montana Lara, Apurva Chitre, Denghui Chen, Benjamin Johnson, Khai-Minh Nguyen, Sakina Muckadam, Thiago Sanches, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.
Nina joined the Palmer Lab in July 2024 as a laboratory/animal assistant.
She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a bachelor of science degree in Microbiology, and she plans to pursue graduate school.
Welcome, Nina!
The manuscript titled ”Rare and Common Variants Associated with Alcohol Consumption Identify a Conserved Molecular Network” was accepted in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members: Brittany Leger and Abraham A Palmer.
The manuscript titled “A multi-symptomatic model of heroin use disorder in rats reveals distinct behavioral profiles and neuronal correlates of heroin vulnerability versus resiliency” was accepted in the American Journal of Psychiatry.*
*check back for DOI/links after publication
Dr. Palmer hosted and presented a talk at a summit for fellow Glo1 researchers at UC San Diego on April 19, 2024. The summit was an occasion for researchers who are working on Glyoxalase 1 (Glo1) to meet and hear about one another’s projects.
Palmer Lab member and UC San Diego Biomedical Sciences graduate student Brittany Leger presented a research poster at the 19th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium on April 25, 2024.
