Joel Leal accepts Assistant Professor position at Lincoln University of Missouri
Joel will work on understanding the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes using sheep as animal models.
Congratulations, Joel!
10th Annual P50/P30 Center Retreat
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 attends GRC 2024 in Maine
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.
NIDA P30 Grant Awarded
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 Avila joins the Palmer Lab
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!
Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior
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 Suzuki joins the Palmer Lab
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!
Michael Rempel joins the Palmer Lab
Michael Rempel joined the Palmer Lab in July 2024 for a five-week internship on the Wet Lab team. His work focuses on genotyping Cadm2 transgenic rats which were created as an animal model to study the effect of mutations on the recursive splice site in Cadm2, which is known to be strongly associated with ADHD in humans.
Michael is a high school student at SET High. He is interested in modern biotechnology, including computational biology. Outside of school, Michael spends time with friends, volunteers at concerts, and helps with native habitat restoration in Rose Canyon.
Welcome, Michael!
Manuscript accepted in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research
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.
Manuscript accepted in the American Journal of Psychiatry
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.
Update: title changed to “Distinct Behavioral Profiles and Neuronal Correlates of Heroin Vulnerability Versus Resiliency in a Multi-Symptomatic Model of Heroin Use Disorder in Rats.”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230623
