The article, “Genetic Influences on ADHD Symptom Dimensions: Examination of A Priori Candidates, Genome-wide Variation, and SNP Heritability”, was accepted for publication in Neuropsychiatric Genetics. Authors include L. Cinnamon Bidwell, Joshua C. Gray, Jessica Weafer, Abraham Palmer, Harriet de Wit, and James MacKillop.
The 55th annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) was held in Hollywood, FL from December 4-8th.
Drs. Abraham Palmer and Laura Sittig presented posters. Laura also won a prestigious ACNP Travel Award. Former Palmer Lab members Camron Bryant and Clarissa Parker attended and presented posters as well.
The article, “Fine mapping of genes determining extrafusal fiber properties in murine soleus muscle”, was accepted for publication in Physiological Genomics. Authors include Andrew Carroll, Riyan Cheng, Elaina Collie-Duguid, Caroline Meharg, Michael Scholz, Steven Fiering, Jennifer Fields, Abraham Palmer, and Arimantas Lionikas.
The 2016 meeting of the NIDA Genetics Consortium was held in Washington D.C. from December 1-2. Dr. Abraham Palmer presented a talk titled “Genome-wide association study of delay discounting identifies GPM6B and demonstrates co-heritability with smoking”.
Dr. Abraham Palmer presented at the Neuroscience And Behavior Seminar series at the University of California Santa Barbara on November 4th. His talk was titled “Using quantitative behavioral genetics to understand biology”.
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from October 18-22. Dr. Palmer presented at a session organized by 23andMe. His talk was titled “Studying impulsivity, alcoholism, and loneliness using in person and internet-based phenotyping”. Read the press release about the event here.
The recent article, “Genome-wide Association Study of Loneliness Demonstrates a Role for Common Variation”, has garnered significant attention in various news and social media outlets! KSWB Fox 5 interviewed Dr. Abraham Palmer about the study’s findings. Dr. Sandra Sanchez Roige penned a piece in Genétic Médica (in Spanish) discussing the results. Dr. Sanchez was also interviewed by Colombian radio station Voces RCN. It’s been retweeted many times. UCSD highlighted the study in their recent press release about being ranked the 15th best university nationally. The Huffington Post, Nature World News,
Dr. Abraham Palmer presented at the Genetic Seminar Series at Emory University School of Medicine on October 3rd. His talk was titled “Behavioral genetics: from discovery to translation”.
The P50 Center’s proposal, titled “Genome-wide mapping of gene-microbiome interaction: implication in behavior”, has been selected for funding by the UC San Diego’s Center for Microbiome Innovation. The purpose of these seed grants is to jump start microbiome research in San Diego and spark new research collaborations.
The NIDA National Center of Excellence for Genome-Wide Association Studies in Outbred Rats (P50DA037844) was founded in 2014 to utilize cutting-edge genetic methods to elucidate the genetics of drug abuse-related behaviors in rats. Dr. Abraham Palmer is the Center’s Director.
