The article written by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige entitled “Genome-wide association study of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) scores in 20,328 research participants of European ancestry” was accepted for publication in Addiction Biology. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author on the paper. Read the article here.
Great work, Sandra!
Dr. Amelie Baud has joined the Palmer Lab! She is a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellow at EMBL – EBI in the UK and Visiting Scholar at UCSD. Amelie’s research focuses on understanding how genetic variants in an individual can influence traits of another individual (social genetic effects, SGE). In the Palmer Lab she will be investigating whether the gut microbiome mediates SGE using data from the P50 Heterogeneous Stock rats project. Welcome to the lab, Amelie!
Graduate student Alex Gileta finally reunites with the Palmer lab in sunny San Diego. After a year and a half apart (studying at the University of Chicago), he decided he just couldn’t live without us and will be here until he finishes his dissertation. Welcome to San Diego, Alex!
Natalia Gonzales defended her thesis, “Integrative genetic analysis of behavioral and metabolic traits in an advanced intercross line of mice” on September 6th and it was approved by her committee. Congratulations, Dr. Gonzales!
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.
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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!
