Dr. Palmer’s comments about Cornelis et al, 2011 in PLoS Genetics can be read here. Abraham Palmer is also quoted here on the same topic. A similar article on the topic has been recently published.

Both Camron Bryant and Margaret Distler’s abstracts have been chosen for the Selected Talks Sessions at Genes, Brain and Behavior meeting in Rome, Italy. They will each give a 15 minute talk at the meeting.

Amy Hart has been honored by IBANGS and will give a 30 minute presentation at the annual meeting in Rome, Italy.

The National institute of General Medical Sciences has just issued a notice of grant award for the project titled “Genome-wide association studies in outbred mice” (R01GM097737). This 4 year project has a total cost of just over $2 million dollars and is the third R01 grant awarded to Dr. Palmer.

Camron got official word today that his K99/R00 grant was funded by NIDA. This will support him for 2 more years as a postdoc and 3 additional years once he has an independent position. Congratulations to Camron!