Dr. Palmer and two members of the Palmer Lab attended the annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 5-9, 2024.
Brittany Leger and Sabrina Mi each presented a poster at the meeting.
Our recently-funded NIDA P30 Center grant was announced in the campus publication UC San Diego Today.
The article is titled “UC San Diego Awarded $8 Million to Uncover Genetic Foundations of Substance Use Disorders.”
The manuscript titled “Large-scale characterization of cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals that escalation of intake, aversion-resistant responding, and breaking-points are highly correlated measures of the same construct” was published in eLife.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.
Congratulations!
Gracie Ang, Dr. Benjamin Johnson, April Jones, Elaine Keung, Dr. Daniel Munro, and Dr. Thiago Missfeldt Sanches have been selected as 2024 STAR Award Recipients in recognition of and appreciation for their outstanding service and enduring contribution to the advancement of the psychiatry department’s teaching, research, clinical and public service missions.
Congratulations!
The Palmer Lab ran a booth at Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago featuring our RATTACA project.
The conference was held at the McCormick Place Convention Center from October 5-9, 2024.
The manuscript titled ”Multimodal analysis of RNA sequencing data powers discovery of complex trait genetics” was accepted in Nature Communications.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham Palmer.
Congratulations!
Eight members from the Palmer Lab attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 2 to 5, 2024.
Zachary Tatom joined the Palmer Lab as a postdoctoral scholar in October 2024 after receiving his PhD in human and molecular genetics from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome, Zachary!
The manuscript titled ”PAGER: A Novel Genotype Encoding Strategy for Modeling Deviations from Additivity in Complex Trait Association Studies” was accepted in BioData Mining.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva S. Chitre and Abraham A. Palmer.
Congratulations!
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk at the University of California Irvine (UCI) for the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior’s ICAN seminar series, titled “Genetic approaches to understanding substance use disorders and other psychiatric and behavioral traits using humans and rodents,” held on campus at UCI on September 17, 2024.
