An article by Stephen J. Lyons in American Airline’s in-flight magazine highlights the wonders of living in Hyde Park . You can read the full article here.

Congratulations to Amy Hart, the recipient of a Graduate Student Affairs Travel Fund. Amy will be using her travel award to attend the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics  in Hamburg, Germany this October. Her presentation is entitled “Small candidate gene studies of the acute response to amphetamine fail to replicate”.

This is the third year that Abraham has been co-director of the course. Amy and Clarissa received tuition wavers.

Clarissa’s presentation “Comparing genome-wide association results for fear conditioning in two advanced intercross mouse lines: Implications for gene identification in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in humans” will be on October 17, 2012.

Summer will be working with two mentors: Drs. Abraham Palmer and Stephanie Dulawa. Summer is a member of the Committee on Neurobiology and will initially be supported by the Training in Neural Systems Training Grant.

After a lengthy review process Amy’s paper is finally in press. Other authors include Barbara E. Engelhardt^*, Margaret C. Wardle, Greta Sokoloff, Matthew Stephens, Harriet de Wit and Abraham A. Palmer.

Lab members Camron Bryant and Margaret Distler were both married on July 7, 2012… but not to each other… Camron married Galum and Margaret married Will. Congrats and best wishes to them all. Photos anyone?

More located here: http://matushekphotography.com/margaret-will-married/

Kat is the newest addition to the lab; she is a member of the Committee on Neurobiology and will be supported by the Training in Drug Abuse Research Training Grant.

Emmanuel is the Palmer Lab’s newest technician, we are pleased to have the University of Chicago alum as part of the team.

Congratulations to Clarissa Parker who will be presenting at ACNP this December in Hollywood, Florida.  All of her travel expenses will be paid by the travel award.