The manuscript titled “Genetic Architecture of Addiction-Relevant Behaviors in Outbred Sprague-Dawley Rats Reveals Loci for Anxiety-Like and Nociceptive Traits” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
The manuscript was authored by current and past Palmer Lab members Apurva Chitre, Khai Nguyen, Yizhi Wang, Riyan Cheng, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer
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Dr. Montana Lara received a travel scholarship from the International Mammalian Genome Society (IMGS) to attend the 39th International Mammalian Genome Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland on April 7-10, 2026!
The article titled “Substrain-specific behavioral variation in female C57BL/6 and C57BL/10 mice” was published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
The manuscript was authored by current and past Palmer Lab members Celine L. St. Pierre, Natalia M. Gonzales, Greta Sokoloff, and Oksana Polesskaya.
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Jonah joined the Palmer Lab in March 2026 as a rotation student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD program.
Dr. Palmer was invited to give the annual Mark Gold Translational Neuroscience Lecture at Washington University in St. Louis on March 30, 2026.
Dr. Palmer’s talk, “Understanding the polygenic influences on putatively similar behaviors in humans and rodents” was hosted by Ryan Bogdan, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences.
The manuscript titled “Novel Candidate Genes for Vestibular Function Identified Through GWAS in the Mouse Hybrid Diversity Panel” was accepted for publication in BMC Genomics.
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige and Dr. Palmer were invited to visit the 23andMe Research Institute to discuss their longtime project collaboration. On March 17, 2026, they presented their talk, “A Decade of Discovery in Addiction Genetics — the Best Is Yet to Come,” at the 23andMe Research Institute headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.
Drs. Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez-Roige were featured in a recent article on the 23andMe blog!
The article, “A Decade of Discovery: Unraveling the Genetics of Behavior with 23andMe and UCSD,” celebrates the partnership between 23andMe, Dr. Abraham Palmer, and Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige, and lists the numerous research papers they have collaborated on in the past decade.
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The manuscript titled “Multivariate genetic analyses of 2.2 million individuals reveal broad and substance-specific pathways of addiction risk” was accepted for publication in Nature Mental Health.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Jean Gonzalez and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “Ivermectin Reduces Withdrawal-Induced Alcohol Intake in Rats: Association with CeA GABAergic Enhancement and P2rx4 Genetic Liability” was accepted for publication in Neuropharmacology.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro, Benjamin Johnson, and Abraham Palmer.
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