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By identifying genes that influence behavior we hope to obtain fundamental mechanistic insights into the molecular basis of both health and disease. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENES AND BEHAVIOR Learn more

Manuscript accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Disease Primers

The manuscript, “Hazardous Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorders,” has been accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Disease Primers. Dr. Abraham Palmer coauthored this article along with Drs. James MacKillop, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Markus Heilig, and several others.

Published: 22 December 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-022-00414-1

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Abraham Palmer November 1, 2022 Publications

Dr. Thiago Sanches joins the Palmer Lab

Thiago joined the Palmer Lab in October 2022 as an Information Systems Analyst. He received his PhD in Genomics from UCDavis with a specialization in Environmental DNA. His research interests involve data integration, graphs and inference. In his free time, Thiago enjoys cycling, playing with electronics, and breeding aquarium fish.

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Abraham Palmer October 29, 2022 Palmer Lab News

Palmer Lab attends CTC-2022 Meeting in Colorado

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) was held in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community at the University of Colorado on September 29th and 30th, 2022. Palmer lab members, Dr. Palmer, Dr. Polesskaya, Apurva Chitre, Brittany Leger, and Denghui Chen had attended and presented in person. Post Docs Dan Munro and Joel Leal Gutierrez had attended and presented virtually.

See program details here!

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Abraham Palmer September 29, 2022 Palmer Lab News, Talks & Conferences

Manuscript accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research

The manuscript, “The regulatory landscape of multiple brain regions in outbred heterogeneous stock rats”, has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. This study provides the most comprehensive mapping of gene regulatory variation in outbred rats to date and introduces the RatGTEx resource. Palmer lab members, Dan Munro, Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, Jianjun Gao, and Abraham Palmer are co-authors along with several others.

See preprint here!

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Abraham Palmer September 27, 2022 Publications

New R01 grant awarded

A new R01 grant titled, “A Framework for Translating Polygenic Findings Related to Alcohol Use Disorder Across Species”, has been awarded to Dr. Abraham Palmer as the Project Director. This 5 year grant incudes more than $2.7M starting September 16th, 2022 and ends on August 31st, 2027.

Congrats, Dr. Palmer!

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Abraham Palmer September 16, 2022 Funding & Grants

New U01 grant awarded

The new NIDA U01 Grant, “Identification of Genetic Variants that Contribute to Compulsive Cocaine Intake in Rats”, has been awarded to Dr. Abraham Palmer and Dr. Olivier George. This grant will fund the behavioral characterization, biobanking, genotyping and GWAS analysis of 2,082 rats over 5 years. The first milestone for this grant is to implement raspberry pi monitoring systems into Dr. George’s machine-learning data pipeline.

Congratulations!

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Abraham Palmer September 14, 2022 Funding & Grants

Dr. Abraham Palmer awarded the 2022 Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award

Dr. Abraham Palmer received the 2022 Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award for outstanding mentorship of future leaders in academic medicine at UC San Diego.

Congratulations, Dr. Palmer!

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Abraham Palmer September 9, 2022 Awards, Palmer Lab News

Manuscript accepted for publication in Translational Psychiatry

The manuscript, “Parsing Genetically Influenced Risk Pathways: Genetic Loci Impact Problematic Alcohol Use Via Externalizing and Specific Risk”, was accepted for publication in Translational Psychiatry. This study investigates the use of multivariate methods to unravel variants associated with problematic alcohol use in order to characterize the pathways in which these variants operate. Drs. Abraham Palmer, Sandra Sanchez-Roige and several others are coauthors. See pre-print here!

Congratulations!

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Abraham Palmer September 9, 2022 Publications

New P50 grant awarded

The grant titled, “Integrative Omics Center for Accelerating Neurobiological Understanding of Opioid Addiction”, has been awarded to Drs. Eric Otto Johnson, Abraham Palmer and several others.  The goal of the Integrative Omics Center for Accelerating Neurobiological Understanding of Opioid Addiction (ICAN) is to identify the genetic basis for opioid addiction. Dr. Palmer is an MPI for project 3, which seeks to integrate rodent and human studies using statistical genetic approaches and rodent experiments.

Congratulations!

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Abraham Palmer September 7, 2022 Funding & Grants

Manuscript accepted for publication in Molecular Psychiatry

The manuscript, “Clinical, Environmental, and Genetic Risk Factors for Substance Use Disorders: Characterizing Combined Effects across Multiple Cohorts”, has been provisionally accepted for publication in Molecular Psychiatry. This article investigates the ability to identify individuals at higher risk for substance use disorders across four cohorts using models that include clinical/environmental risk index (CERI) and polygenic scores (PGS).  Dr. Abraham Palmer is a co-author along with several others. See preprint here!

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Abraham Palmer September 5, 2022 Publications
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  • GWAS datasets...visit C-GORD

Abraham Palmer, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego
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Palmer Lab
University of California San Diego
Biomedical Research Facility II (BRF2)
3147 Biomedical Sciences Way

La Jolla, CA 92093-0667
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Email: [email protected]
Phone: (858) 534-2093
Twitter: @AbePalmer

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Curriculum Vitae

PhD, Biomedical Sciences
University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

Director, NIDA National Center of Excellence for GWAS in Outbred Rats

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Palmer Lab bays:
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Room 3217: Bays FF-JJ

  • Bay FF: Khai Nguyen
  • Bay GG: Montana Lara,
    Yizhi Wang, and Sabrina Mi
  • Bay HH: Brittany Leger
    and Denghui Chen
  • Bay II: Riyan Cheng
    and Joel David Leal Gutierrez
  • Bay JJ: Clara Ortez

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Recent Posts

  • Next month: 9th Annual Retreat – NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats
  • NIDA U01 grant renewal awarded to Drs. Akil, Li, Watson, and Palmer
  • Manuscript accepted in Nature Neuroscience
  • Elaine Keung joins the Palmer Lab
  • Manuscript accepted in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Manuscript accepted in Behavior Genetics
  • Ishita Khatri joins the Palmer Lab
  • Manuscript accepted in Addiction Biology
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