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!

Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for the Kansas State University Department of Anatomy and Physiology Spring Seminar Series on April 8, 2025.

His talk, “Using genetic approaches to understand addiction-related traits,” was presented remotely.

We are pleased to announce that after a department-wide search, Dr. Abraham Palmer has been selected to continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Palmer commenced the role of Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in 2016.

Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the review article titled “Psychiatric Genetics in the Diverse Landscape of Latin American Populations,” which was published in Nature Genetics.

The award presentation took place during the  weekly Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series and included Dr. Palmer’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture, “Understanding addiction through the lens of genetics.”

Congratulations, Dr. Palmer!