The manuscript titled “The pleiotropic architecture of human impulsivity across biological scales” was accepted in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Yixuan (Ivy) Xin joined the Palmer Lab in May 2025 as part of the Research Experiences for High School and Undergraduate Students (REHU) summer program.

Ivy is an undergraduate at UC San Diego with research interests in machine learning, sleep, mental disorders, and substance use disorders.

Welcome, Ivy!

The manuscript titled “Investigating the Role of Glyoxalase 1 as a Therapeutic Target for Cocaine and Oxycodone Use Disorder” was accepted in Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior.

Brittany gave a talk titled “Getting the runaround: is the locomotor response to a novel environment a model of human externalizing behavior?” for the 18th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat at UC San Diego on May 23, 2025.

The paper titled “Genome-Wide Association Study of Age-Related Hearing Loss in CFW Mice Identifies Multiple Genes and Loci, Including Prkag2” was published in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO) and was authored by members of the Palmer Lab in collaboration with Dr. Rick Friedman’s group.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Oksana Polesskaya, Riyan Cheng, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, and Abraham Palmer.

Congratulations!

The manuscript titled “Associations Between a Genetic Liability Toward Externalizing and Behavioral Outcomes Spanning Toddlerhood Through Early Adulthood in Five Developmental Cohorts” was accepted in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

The manuscript titled “Prescription Opioid Medication Survey: A tool to collect deep phenotypic data on the multifactorial pathways to opioid use disorder in clinical and population-based cohorts” was accepted in Complex Psychiatry.

Authors include current Palmer Lab members Jean Gonzalez and Abraham Palmer.

Congratulations!

Dr. Daniel Munro has been promoted to Assistant Project Scientist!

Congratulations, Daniel!

Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk at Rutgers University for the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC).

His talk, “The Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders: What We’ve Learned from Humans and Rats,” was part of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center/Brain Health Institute 2025 Plenary Seminar Series.

Dr. Abraham Palmer was selected to receive a Research Award from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) for his project titled “Genome-wide association and fine-mapping of smoking using tandem repeats and structural variants.”

This is a three year, $1,215,000 grant that starts July 1, 2025 and ends June 30, 2028.

Congratulations!