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Palmer Lab Photo Gallery: 2023

Abraham Palmer October 25, 2024

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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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Palmer Lab Photo Gallery: 2022

Abraham Palmer October 25, 2024

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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

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Palmer Lab attends CTC 2024 in Milwaukee

Abraham Palmer October 8, 2024 Events & Meetings, Talks & Conferences

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.

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Manuscript accepted in BioData Mining

Abraham Palmer September 30, 2024 Palmer Lab News, Publications

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!

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Manuscript Accepted in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics

Abraham Palmer September 11, 2024 Palmer Lab News, Publications

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!

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10th Annual P50/P30 Center Retreat

Abraham Palmer September 9, 2024 Events & Meetings, Palmer Lab News

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)

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Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior

Abraham Palmer July 18, 2024 Palmer Lab News, Publications

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.

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New publication in Cell Genomics

Abraham Palmer March 4, 2024 Publications

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)

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Manuscript accepted in Scientific Reports

Abraham Palmer February 6, 2024 Publications

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!

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9th Annual P50 Center Retreat – October 27, 2023

Abraham Palmer November 15, 2023 P50 NIDA Center of Excellence, Palmer Lab News, Talks & Conferences

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.

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Abraham Palmer, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego

Director,
NIDA Center of Excellence for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats ________________________

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
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PhD, Biomedical Sciences

University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

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Israni Biomedical Research Facility
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3147 Biomedical Sciences Way
La Jolla, CA 92093

Mailing address:
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Palmer Lab
9500 Gilman Drive
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Palmer Lab Members

Palmer Lab Members

BRF-2 | Floor 3-A: Dry Lab
Room 3A24: Abraham Palmer
Room 3A32: Oksana Polesskaya,
Thiago Sanches, Elaine Keung
3A07-D/E: Benjamin Johnson,
Zachary Tatom
3A07-M: Apurva Chitre

BRF-2 | Floor 3: Wet Lab
Room 3217: Bays FF-JJ
  • Bay FF: Nina Suzuki,
    Mohammad Sadegi
  • Bay GG: Montana Lara
  • Bay HH: Denghui Chen,
    Gracie Ang
  • Bay II: Riyan Cheng,
    Rudy Avila
  • Bay JJ: Ivy Xi

  • For administrative and website support:
    April Jones (akjones@health.ucsd.edu)

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    • Visit us at the RATTACA booth at SfN 2025!
    • Palmer Lab attends CTC 2025 in Barcelona, Spain
    • Manuscript accepted in Nature Communications
    • Overlapping Haplotype Effects at One Locus
    • Manuscript accepted in Addiction Neuroscience
    • U01 grant awarded with Dr. Abraham Palmer as MPI
    • R01 grant awarded with Dr. Abraham Palmer as a co-investigator
    • Dr. Brittany Leger successfully defends her thesis!
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