Dr. Greta Sokoloff’s paper “Anxiety and fear in a cross of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: mapping overlapping and independent QTL for related traits” has been accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior. The article can be found here.

Dr. Carmon Bryant has been promoted from postdoc to research scientist. This change is coincident with the start of his K99/R00 award. Congratulations to Camron!

Dr. Clarissa Parker won a travel fellowship that allowed her to attend the Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion where she presented a poster titled “Genome-wide association for fear-conditioning in an advanced intercross mouse line: The benefits of recombination”.

A blog entry titled “The Genetics of Normal” by Robert Mitchum has been published on Science Life. The entry describes the Palmer Lab’s past and future interests in research on the genetic basis for traits such as impulsivity.

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!