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Manuscript accepted in Psychopharmacology

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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Abraham Palmer February 13, 2025 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior

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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Abraham Palmer February 12, 2025 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

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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Abraham Palmer February 10, 2025 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Psychological Medicine

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.

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Abraham Palmer February 7, 2025 Publications

Zachary Tatom selected to be an NIAAA T32 Fellow

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.

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Abraham Palmer February 3, 2025 Awards, Funding & Grants

Manuscript accepted in Nature Genetics

Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTex) Project,” which was accepted in Nature Genetics.

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Abraham Palmer January 28, 2025 Publications

Manuscript accepted in PLOS Genetics

The manuscript titled “RatXcan: A framework for cross-species integration of genome-wide association and gene expression data” was accepted in PLOS Genetics.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members: Sabrina Mi, Apurva S. Chitre, Daniel Munro, Denghui Chen, Riyan Cheng, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham A. Palmer.

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Abraham Palmer January 21, 2025 Publications

R01 Grant awarded with Dr. Abraham Palmer as a co-investigator

A new R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige, with Dr. Abraham Palmer as co-investigator.

The 5-year grant is titled “Multi-ancestry, multivariate genome-wide association analysis of opioid-related traits in half a million individuals” and it will start January 15, 2025 and end on November 30, 2029.

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Abraham Palmer January 15, 2025 Funding & Grants

Manuscript accepted in Psychiatry Research

The manuscript titled “Genomic structural equation modeling of reward-related traits: Exploring the genetic factor structure and its relationship with psychopathology” was accepted in Psychiatry Research.

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Abraham Palmer December 19, 2024 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

The manuscript titled “Delay discounting data in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Modeling and analysis considerations” was accepted in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

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Abraham Palmer December 17, 2024 Publications
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    Visit our other websites for more information on:
  • RATTACA...visit RatGenes
  • Expression data portal (gene expression, eQTL, sQTL)...visit RatGTEx
  • GWAS datasets...visit C-GORD

Abraham Palmer, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego
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Palmer Lab
University of California San Diego
Israni Biomedical Research Facility (BRF-2)
3147 Biomedical Sciences Way

La Jolla, CA 92093-0667
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Email: aap@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2093
Twitter: @AbePalmer

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Curriculum Vitae

PhD, Biomedical Sciences
University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

Director, NIDA National Center of Excellence for GWAS in Outbred Rats

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Gracie Ang, Zachary Tatom
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    Rudy Avila
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