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By identifying genes that influence behavior we hope to obtain fundamental mechanistic insights into the molecular basis of both health and disease. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENES AND BEHAVIOR Learn more photo of a mouse

Camron Bryant accepts position at Boston University

Camron Bryant, Research Associate in the Palmer Lab, has officially accepted an offer for an Assistant Professor position at Boston University School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.  There, Camron will complete the R00 phase of his K99/R00 award, “Genetic Basis of Opioid Reward and Aversion.”  Congratulations to Camron!

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Abraham Palmer September 28, 2012 Palmer Lab News

Hyde Park is featured by American Airlines

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.

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Abraham Palmer September 14, 2012 Uncategorized

Amy Hart Receives GSA Travel Fund

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”.

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Abraham Palmer September 10, 2012 Palmer Lab News

Clarissa Parker, Amy Hart and Dr. Abraham Palmer visit Jackson Labs for Short Course on Genetics of Addiction

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

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Abraham Palmer September 6, 2012 Talks & Conferences

Clarissa Parker will be participating in the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Hamburg, Germany

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.

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Abraham Palmer September 4, 2012 Talks & Conferences

Summer Thompson joins the Palmer Lab

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.

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Abraham Palmer August 7, 2012 Palmer Lab News

Amy Hart’s paper ‘Genome-wide association study of d-amphetamine response in healthy volunteers identifies putative associations, including cadherin 13 (CDH13)’ accepted for publication in PLoS ONE

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.

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Abraham Palmer August 7, 2012 Publications

Two Palmer Lab members get married on the same day but on different continents!

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/

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Abraham Palmer July 7, 2012 Palmer Lab News

Katherine (‘Kat’) Johnston joins the Palmer Lab

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.

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Abraham Palmer July 6, 2012 Palmer Lab News

Emmanuel Aryee is the newest technician in the Palmer Lab

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

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Abraham Palmer July 5, 2012 Palmer Lab News
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Abraham Palmer, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego

Director,
NIDA Center of Excellence for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats ________________________

Palmer Lab
University of California San Diego
Israni Biomedical Research Facility (BRF-2)
3147 Biomedical Sciences Way

La Jolla, CA 92093-0667
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Email: aap@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2093
Twitter: @AbePalmer

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PhD, Biomedical Sciences

University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

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La Jolla, CA 92093

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9500 Gilman Drive
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  • Bay FF: Nina Suzuki
  • Bay GG: Montana Lara, Mohammad Sadegi
  • Bay HH: Denghui Chen, Gracie Ang
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    • Montana Lara gives talk for Neuroscience at Nemours
    • Pilot grant with Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center awarded to Dr. Daniel Munro
    • Manuscript published in Bioengineering
    • Manuscript accepted in Nature Communications
    • Dr. Palmer gives talk for Rat Genome meeting
    • Manuscript accepted in Psychopharmacology
    • Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior
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