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2023

December 2023

Palmer Lab holiday partyDecember 15, 2023

White elephant gift exchange!

A special thank you to Shae for organizing the party!

This month, we said goodbye to lab members Shae and Beverly.

Good luck, Shae! Good luck, Beverly!

ACNP meeting in Tampa, FLDecember 3-6, 2023

December 5, 2023

Dinner with the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry group at Anchor & Brine in

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December 16, 2022Lunchtime presentations at Palmer Lab for University of Chicago undergraduate students during their career exploration trek to San Diego.

During the presentations, Dr. Palmer gave the students a practical understanding of daily life in biological sciences. He was joined by fellow lab members Thiago Sanches and Michelle Doyle, and graduate student Adam Kline from UC San

Eight members from the Palmer Lab attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 2 to 5, 2024.

The manuscript titled ”PAGER: A Novel Genotype Encoding Strategy for Modeling Deviations from Additivity in Complex Trait Association Studies” was accepted in BioData Mining.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva S. Chitre and Abraham A. Palmer.

Congratulations!

The manuscript titled ”Y and Mitochondrial Chromosomes in the Heterogeneous Stock Rat Population” was accepted in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics.

Authors include recent and current Palmer Lab members: Faith Okamoto, Apurva S Chitre, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Denghui Chen, Daniel Munro, Benjamin B Johnson, Khai-Minh H Nguyen, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham A Palmer.

Congratulations!

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)

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.

The manuscript titled “A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats” was accepted for publication in the April 2024 issue of Cell Genomics.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro, Denghui Chen, Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.

Congratulations!

(Update, 3/26/24: new links available)

The manuscript titled “Environmental enrichment promotes adaptive responding during tests of behavioral regulation in male heterogeneous stock rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham A. Palmer.

Congratulations!

The 9th Annual Retreat for the P50 Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats was a success! The Retreat was held on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the University of California San Diego.

Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely on Zoom! We hope you found the talks informative and made connections with new HS rats/GWAS colleagues.