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.

Natalia’s F31 Grant titled “Integrative genetic analysis of methamphetamine’s motivational effects in mice” was funded by the National Institutes of Health & National Institute on Drug Abuse.

For more information about the the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, click here.

Dr. Abraham Palmer invited for Department of Genetics Seminar at University of Washington St. Louis. His talk was titled “Mice, rats, humans, drug abuse, psychiatric genetics and more.”

Dr. Palmer’s R21 grant titled “GWAS for goal versus sign tracking in genetically heterogeneous rats” was funded today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  Terry Robinson and Shelley Flagel (Universty of Michigan) will be be co-investigators and Alex Gileta (University of Chicago–Palmer Lab) will be heading the project.

Dr. Abraham Palmer presents at Addiction Seminar series at Northwestern University.  His talk was titled “Letters from the trenches: using genetic approaches in mice, rats and humans to gain mechanistic insights into addiction and other psychiatric diseases.”

The article, “Propensity for social interaction predicts nicotine reinforced behaviors in outbred rats” has been accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior.  Other co-authors include Tengfei Wang, Wenyan Han, Bin Wang, Qin Jiang, Leah Solberg Woods and Hao Chen.