Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the review article titled “Psychiatric Genetics in the Diverse Landscape of Latin American Populations,” which was published in Nature Genetics.

The award presentation took place during the  weekly Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series and included Dr. Palmer’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture, “Understanding addiction through the lens of genetics.”

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Denghui Chen received an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH & NIDA for his project titled “Unraveling the Role of Tandem Repeats and Structural Variants in Addiction-Related Behaviors Using Heterogeneous Stock Rats.”

Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “Genetic Propensity for Delay Discounting and Educational Attainment in Adults are Associated with Delay Discounting in Preadolescents: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study” was accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior.

Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “Sex-specific Concordance of Striatal Transcriptional Signatures of Opioid Addiction in Human and Rodent Brains” was accepted in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.

The manuscript titled “Dissociation of intake and incentive sensitization during intermittent- and continuous-access heroin self-administration in rats” was accepted in Psychopharmacology.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Oksana Polesskaya and Abraham Palmer.

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The manuscript titled “Genomic Loci Influencing Cue-Reactivity in Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva Chitre, Thiago Sanches, Riyan Cheng, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.

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The manuscript titled “Hippocampal RNA-Seq in a F2 Cross of bHR/bLR rats 1 Bioenergetic-Related Gene Expression in the Hippocampus Predicts Internalizing vs. Externalizing Behavior in an Animal Model of Temperament” was accepted in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience for the Brain Disease Mechanisms section.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro, Apurva Chitre, and Abraham Palmer.

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Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “Impulsivity Facets and Substance Use Involvement: Insights from Genomic Structural Equation Modeling,” which was accepted in Psychological Medicine.

Dr. Zachary Tatom has been selected to receive a two year postdoctoral slot on the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) T32 for fall 2025, with Dr. Palmer as his mentor. Under the fellowship, Zachary will engage in alcohol research and studies within Palmer Lab with T32 support for up to two years.

Congratulations, Zachary!