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Article by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior

The article written by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige entitled “The genetics of human personality” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author on the paper.

Congratulations, Sandra!

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Abraham Palmer November 7, 2017 Palmer Lab News, Publications

Article co-authored by Drs. Abraham Palmer & Jianjun Gao was accepted for publication in Psychiatry Research

The article, “Genetic Analysis of Impulsive Personality Traits: Examination of A Priori Candidates and Genome-wide Variation,” is in press and will be published in Psychiatry Research. Drs. Abraham Palmer & Jianjun Gao are co-authors, along with Joshua Gray, James MacKillop, Jessica Weafer, Kyle Hernandez, and Harriet de Wit.

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Abraham Palmer October 30, 2017 Publications

Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige named Oral Presentation Finalist at WCPG

Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige gave a talk at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics entitled, “Genome-Wide Association Study of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) Scores in an Unselected Cohort of 20,328 Research Participants of European Ancestry: Rs41973904 and Beyond.”  The conference took place in Orlando, Florida on October 13-17, 2017.

Congratulations, Sandra!

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Abraham Palmer October 17, 2017 Awards, Talks & Conferences

Dr. Yu-yu Ren deadlifts 340kg for a new American record & unofficial world record at 83kg

Congratulations to Yu-yu for setting a new American record and unofficially breaking a world record in weight lifting! He deadlifted 340kg, which is 15kg over the current world record.

Check out the article about him here!

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Abraham Palmer October 13, 2017 Palmer Lab News

Article by Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige accepted for publication in Addiction Biology

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!

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Abraham Palmer September 26, 2017 Palmer Lab News, Publications

Dr. Amelie Baud joins the Palmer Lab!

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!

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Abraham Palmer September 22, 2017 P50 NIDA Center of Excellence, Palmer Lab News

Grad student Alex Gileta finally makes the move to San Diego!

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!

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Abraham Palmer September 18, 2017 Palmer Lab News

Natalia Gonzales successfully defends her doctoral thesis!

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!

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Abraham Palmer September 6, 2017 Palmer Lab News

Article co-authored by Dr. Abraham Palmer was accepted for publication in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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.

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Abraham Palmer September 6, 2017 Publications

Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige is awarded Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDS

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.

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Abraham Palmer August 30, 2017 Awards, Funding & Grants, Palmer Lab News
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    • RATTACA
    • GWAS datasets
  • RatGTEx.org | Expression data portal (gene expression, eQTL, sQTL)
  • POMS | opioidmedicationsurvey.org (Prescription Opioid Medication Survey study)
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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
Twitter: @AbePalmer

UCSD Profile
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Curriculum Vitae

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Google Scholar: publications listing
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PhD, Biomedical Sciences

University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

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University of California San Diego
Israni Biomedical Research Facility
(also known as BRF-2 and IBRF)

3147 Biomedical Sciences Way
La Jolla, CA 92093

Mailing address:
University of California San Diego
Palmer Lab
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code: 0667
La Jolla, CA 92093-0667

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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
3A07-D/E: Benjamin Johnson,
Zachary Tatom, Jonah Pacis
3A07-M: Apurva Chitre

BRF-2 | Floor 3: Wet Lab
Room 3217: Bays FF-JJ
  • Bay FF: Nina Suzuki
  • Bay GG: Montana Lara, Mohammad Sadegi
  • 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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    News and Blog posts

    • Dr. Palmer gives talk at the CPDD annual meeting in Portland, OR
    • Montana Lara gives talk for Neuroscience at Nemours
    • Pilot grant with Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center awarded to Dr. Daniel Munro
    • Manuscript published in Bioengineering
    • Manuscript accepted in Nature Communications
    • Dr. Palmer gives talk for Rat Genome meeting
    • Manuscript accepted in Psychopharmacology
    • Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior
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