Lab members and guests enjoyed another beautiful La Jolla sunset together at the annual Palmer Lab holiday party and white elephant gift exchange on December 15, 2023.
Note that the UC San Diego campus will be closed from December 25, 2023 through January 2, 2024.
The manuscript titled “Genome-Wide Association Study of Chronic Dizziness in the Elderly Identifies Loci Implicating MLLT10, BPTF, LINC01224, and ROS1” was accepted in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO).
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham A. Palmer.
Congratulations!
The manuscript titled “Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of tobacco use disorder identifies 461 potential risk genes and reveals associations with multiple health outcomes”* was accepted in Nature Human Behaviour.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Brittany Leger and Abraham Palmer.
*title updated (2/21/24)
The 9th Annual Retreat for the P50 Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats was a success! The Retreat was held on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely on Zoom! We hope you found the talks informative and made connections with new HS rats/GWAS colleagues.
The manuscript titled “Executive function and impulsivity predict distinct genetic variance in internalizing problems, externalizing problems, thought disorders, and compulsive disorders: A genomic structural equation modeling study” was accepted in Clinical Psychological Science.
Palmer Lab graduate student researcher Brittany Leger attended the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG)/International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG) conference with Dr. Palmer in Montreal, Canada, held from October 10 to 14, 2023.
Several members from the Palmer Lab attended the 20th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held in Memphis, Tennessee from October 8 to 12, 2023.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 9th (and final) Annual Retreat for the P50 Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats!
The Retreat will take place on Friday, October 27, 2023 at the University of California San Diego.
A competitive renewal of the U01 grant “Genetics of novelty seeking and propensity for drug abuse in outbred rats” was awarded to Drs. Huda Akil, Jun Li, and Stanley Watson. Dr. Palmer is Co-I and PI of the subcontract to UC San Diego.
The manuscript titled “Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in gene amygdala GABAergic inhibition” was accepted in Nature Neuroscience.
Nature Neuroscience, 2023, 05 October.
