The article, “Hierarchical investigation of genetic influences on response inhibition in healthy young adults,” is in press and will be published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author, along with Jessica Weafer, Joshua Gray, Kyle Hernandez, James MacKillop, and Harriet de Wit.
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige was recently awarded the Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDS (IRFN). This is a two-year program that includes research mentorship by UCSD neuroAIDS faculty as well as career training and seminars.
The IRFN, with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), provides training experiences that emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of clinical problems in neuroAIDS to prepare scientists for their future in the field. Congratulations, Sandra!
For more information, visit IRFN.
Daniel Liu, a student from Torrey Pines High School, participated in the Research Experiences for High School and Undergraduate Students (REHU) program funded by the P50 Center (P50DA037844, “Integrated GWAS of complex behavioral and gene expression traits in outbred rats”). Daniel worked with Dr. Jianjun Gao on developing new software to process sequencing data for the Genotyping-by-Sequencing method. He wrote a research paper titled ” FastQParse: An Integrated Toolkit for Preprocessing Sequenced Reads” and also presented his work at the REHU Symposium which was held at the University of Chicago.
The
The article, “Heterogeneous stock rats: a model to study the genetics of despair-like behavior in adolescence,” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain, and Behavior. Authors include Drs. Abraham Palmer and Riyan Cheng as well as collaborators Katie Holl, Hong He, Michael Wedemeyer, Larissa Clopton, Stephanie Wert, Jeanie Meckes, Abigail Kastner, Eva Redei, and Leah Solberg Woods.
Dr. Sanchez-Roige recently received an ECIP Travel Award to the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics! The conference will take place in October in Orlando, FL. Congratulations, Sandra!
Congratulations to Yu-yu for unofficially breaking a world record in weight lifting!
Check out the article about him here!
Dr. Kayla Chase has finished her postdoc in the Palmer lab and has accepted a position as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, IL. The Palmer Lab will miss her and wishes her the best of luck!
The article, “Identification of a novel, fast-acting GABAergic antidepressant“, by McMurray et al. (Mol. Psychiatry, 2017) has been recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field. Dr. Guy Griebel wrote a review of the article, which can be read in full here.
F1000Prime is a curated collection of top articles recommended by the Faculty of 1000 as being significant and impactful to the fields of biology and medicine. Articles from over 3,700 peer-reviewed journals are highlighted. Learn more about F1000Prime and its features here!
The Palmer Lab attended the Complex Trait Community. Meeting in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community in Memphis, TN June 13-17, 2017. Alex Gileta won the Outstanding Presentation award for his talk: ‘Genome-wide association study for the propensity to attribute incentive salience to reward cues in outbred rats.’ Nice job, Alex!
Dr. Yu-yu Ren also presented: ‘A multi-omics approach to elucidating the genomic heterogeneity among C57BL/6 mouse substrains.’ Dr. Abraham Palmer presented: ‘Status update on the NIDA center for GWAS in outbred rats; progress, resources and opportunities.’
Abraham Palmer was featured in the La Jolla Light newspaper last week, along with his daughter and prized ’77 VW van. Check out the story behind the van and its cross country adventures.
