Margaret has a girl!
Former lab member Margaret Distler recently had a baby girl, named Hazel Nalini.
Congratulations, Margaret!
Dr. Abraham Palmer and Scripps Research Team are awarded $7.5M for drug addiction studies
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.
Katherine has a girl!
Former lab member Katherine McMurray recently had a baby girl, named Madeline Virginia.
Congratulations, Katherine!
Dr. Abraham Palmer and Dr. Jonathon Sebat speak at Taste of Science festival in San Diego
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 gives talk at Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego
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.”
Drs. Tom Jhou and Abraham Palmer awarded NIDA U01 grant
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 gives talk at Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Symposium
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.
Dr. Abraham Palmer gives plenary talk for The Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Dr. Abraham Palmer gave a plenary talk for The Society for Neuroscience, Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter Meeting, in Portland, Oregon on Friday, April 13th. His talk was titled, “The surprising role of the enzyme Glyoxalase 1 and its substrate methylglyoxal in anxiety, depression and alcohol consumption.”
Drs. Abraham Palmer and Amelie Baud speak with Sweetwater High School students
Drs. Abraham Palmer and Amelie Baud presented their research on psychiatric genetics to approximately 40 high school students on Friday April 6th at UCSD. Many of the students are taking AP Psychology or AP Economics courses. They were visiting the UCSD campus from Sweetwater High School in National City, CA.
Dr. Abraham Palmer Keynote Speaker at Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research
Dr. Abraham Palmer was the keynote speaker at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research at the University of Texas at Austin on Friday, March 23rd, 2018. His talk was titled “Behavioral genetic studies of alcoholism and alcohol related traits using mice, rats, and humans.”
