Her undergraduate thesis is titled “Mapping of anxiety-like traits in an advanced intercross line of mice.”

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Dr. Abraham Palmer discusses psychiatric genetics–heritability of personality and psychiatric diseases, and his latest study on the genetics of amphetamine response.

The 16th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) was held in Chicago from May 10-13.

Camron Bryant, Clarissa Parker and Laura Sittig gave talks.

Alex Gileta, Natalia Gonzales, Kat Johnston McMurray and Celine St. Pierre presented posters.

The article “Fine mapping QTLs in advanced interbred lines and other outbred populations,” has been accepted for publication in Mammalian Genome.

Emily will start her MPH at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in NYC this fall!

Camila will start her PhD in Neuroscience at the Sackler School for Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University in Boston this fall!

• “Liking Amphetamine Linked to Reduced Risk of Mental Disorder,” featured on The Scientist
• “Genetic Predisposition To Liking Amphetamine Reduces Risk Of Schizophrenia And ADHD” featured on Science Life
• “Genetic predisposition to liking amphetamine reduces risk of schizophrenia and ADHD” featured on The University of Chicago Medicine 2014 Press Releases
• “Enjoy The Feeling Of Adderall? You May Be Less Likely To Develop ADHD” featured on Popular Science
• “Genes for ‘Liking’ Amphetamine Lower Schizophrenia, ADHD Risk” featured on Medscape Medical News (Psychiatry)
• Almetric score: 95- article in the top 5% of all articles ranked by attention 

Dr. Laura Sittig’s Grant titled “Mapping epistatic modifiers of human psychiatric risk using mouse genetics“ was funded by the National Institutes of Health & National Institute of Mental Health.

The article, “Annexin A6 modifies muscular dystrophy by mediating sarcolemmal repair” has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Dr. Palmer is one of the co-authors.

The article, “Genetic variation associated with euphorigenic effects of d-amphetamine is associated with diminished risk for schizophrenia and ADHD,” was accepted for publication in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).  Amy Hart (currently at UPenn) and Dr. Abraham Palmer are among the co-authors.