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!