In recognition of her outstanding presentation at the 29th International Mammalian Genome Conference, Natalia Gonzales was awarded the book “Genetics of the Mouse” from Springer.
The name of her talk was “Genetic architecture of behavior in an advanced intercross line of mice” during the plenary session “Large Scale Resources”.
Congratulations, Natalia!
Natalia Gonzales has won the International Mammalian Genome Conference Trainee Scholarship to support her attendance to IMGC 2015 and the associated Trainee Symposium. This scholarship covers her travel, lodging, and conference registration costs.
Congratulations, Natalia!
Katherine McMurray defended her thesis, “Methylglyoxal & Glyoxalase 1 (GLO1) in Psychiatric Disorders: Insights into possible treatments”, this month and it was approved by her committee. Congratulations, Kat!
In December, she will join Dr. Renu Sah’s lab as a post-doctoral scholar. Dr. Sah is in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati. Her lab studies the pathophysiology of anxiety disorders and hopes to identify novel biomarkers and improved therapeutic options.
The article, “Hnrnph1 is a quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity”, was accepted for publication in PLoS Genetics.
Authors include Neema Yazdani, Clarissa Parker, Ying Shen, Eric Reed, Michael Guido, Loren Kole, Stacey Kirkpatrick, Jackie Lim, Greta Sokoloff, Riyan Cheng, Evan Johnson, Camron Bryant, and Abraham Palmer.
The Conte Center at the University of Chicago held its 4th annual Brain Awareness Day on October 24, 2015. The event gathered over 100 high school students, teachers, and other guests.
Brain Awareness Day was supported in part by the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats. Oksana Polesskaya (Scientific Coordinator) presented an overview of the Center’s research.
Nicholas Grahame, Ph.D., Eva E. Redei, Ph.D., and Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D. delivered lectures on topics related to brain research. Graduate students form University of Chicago prepared demonstrations ranging from fixed human brains to electrophysiology
The Society for Neuroscience’s 45th annual meeting was held in Chicago from October 17-21st. Alex Gileta, Katherine McMurray, Kayla Chase and Celine St. Pierre presented posters.
The article, entitled “Genetic and pharmacological manipulation of Glyoxalase 1 regulates voluntary ethanol consumption in mice”, was accepted for publication in Addiction Biology.
Authors include Katherine McMurray, Dr. Abraham Palmer, and collaborators.
The second annual retreat for the NIDA National Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats was held on October 16-17th! Twenty three Center members and ten Advisory Board members from across the nation gathered on the University of Chicago campus to discuss the progress and future directions of the projects.
The NIDA National Center of Excellence was founded in 2014 to utilize cutting-edge genetic methods to elucidate the genetics of drug abuse-related behaviors in rats. The P50 grant is titled “Integrated GWAS of complex behavioral and gene expression traits in outbred rats”
The article, titled “Integration of genome-wide association and extant brain expression QTL identifies candidate genes influencing prepulse inhibition in inbred F1 mice”, was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
Authors include Laura Sittig, Peter Carbonetto, Kyle Engel, Kathleen Krauss and Abraham Palmer.
The article, “Mapping of craniofacial traits in outbred mice identifies major developmental genes involved in shape determination”, will be published in an upcoming issue of PLoS Genetics.
Authors include Luisa Pallares, Peter Carbonetto, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Clarissa Parker, Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell, and Abraham Palmer.
