Dr. Abraham Palmer recently gave a talk about the genetics of delay discounting at the annual Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior meeting in San Diego. His talk was titled “Rats! Quantitative Behavioral Genetics.”
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige recently presented her work titled, “Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) in two population-based cohorts (N=141,958)” at 23andMe Genome Research Day. Her abstract was 1 of the 6 chosen to participate in the event.
Read the pre-print of this study here.
Former lab member Margaret Distler recently had a baby girl, named Hazel Nalini.
Congratulations, Margaret!
The NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently awarded the Scripps Research team two separate grants totaling $7.5 million. The five-year grants will allow the researchers, led by Dr. Olivier George, to combine next-generation sequencing with rodent behavioral screening in a genetically diverse, nonhuman animal model of drug addiction. They will also create shared tissue banks for other researchers to use in addiction-related studies.
Dr. George’s group will collaborate with the lab of Dr. Leah Catherine Solberg Woods at Wake Forest University, who will breed the rats, and the lab of Dr.
Former lab member Katherine McMurray recently had a baby girl, named Madeline Virginia.
Congratulations, Katherine!
Drs. Abraham Palmer and Jonathon Sebat spoke at Stone Brewing on April 26th about how genes influence our everyday lives. Dr. Palmer spoke about his work with 23andMe in a talk titled, “Genetics of delay discounting: why do some people want a small reward now while others choose to wait for a bigger one later?” This was part of the Taste of Science event series hosted by Scientists, Inc.
Dr. Abraham Palmer gave a talk at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego on April 22. His talk was titled, “Learning and old dog’s new tricks: the role of Glyoxalase 1 in regulating behavior and GABAergic signaling and how we stumbled across it.”
A new U01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Tom Jhou and Dr. Abraham Palmer. The grant, titled “Genomic Analysis of Avoidance Learning in Addiction,” will start on April 15, 2018 and will end January 31, 2023.
Dr. Amanda Barkley-Levenson gave an oral presentation at the 13th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Symposium at UCSD on Monday, April 16th. Her talk was entitled, “Evaluating Glyoxalase 1 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Excessive Ethanol Consumption and Comorbid Disorders.”
The symposium is held by the UCSD Department of Psychiatry and is named after Lewis L. Judd, M.D. who served as the second Chair of the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry from 1977-2014.
