Results of the election were announced today, Abraham will become president-elect at the 2012 meeting in Boulder, and will then be president beginning at the 2013 meeting to be held in Leuven, Belgium. Finally, he will serve as past-president starting at the 2014 meeting. More information about IBANGS can be found here.

Dr. Abraham Palmer will serve as an external advisor to the NIAAA funded consortium entitled “Integrative Neurosciences Initiative on Alcoholism: Stress, Anxiety and Excessive Drinking”. Further information can be found on their website.

The talk was titled “Behavioral genetics of complex behavioral traits in mice: gene identification and mechanistic studies”

This years meeting was titled “Decoding sequenced genomes” and featured talks on behavioral genetics across a range of different organisms. Abraham served as a discussant and Natalia presented a poster and won a travel fellowship.

The lab is very proud of undergraduate Naomi Gorfinkle. Her poster was selected by the judges as the best poster on a biological topic at the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Laura Sittig is finishing her PhD at Northwestern University in Eva Redei’s lab and will start her postdoc in July of 2012.

The annual Genes, Brain & Behavior meeting will be held in Boulder, CO and is the official meeting for the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS). Travel awards are supported by a grant from NIAAA, NICHD and NIDA (2R13AA016249).

Here is a some non-fiction that didn’t undergo peer review, in which Dr. Palmer recounts his favorite winter memory in Chicago.

Dr. Abraham Palmer was invited by Julie Blendy, his seminar was titled “Behavioral genetics in mice and men: quantitative studies related to drug abuse and anxiety disorders.”

The article titled, “QTLs for murine red blood cell parameters in LG/J and SM/J F2 and advanced intercross lines,” has been accepted for publication in Mammalian Genome.