Robert joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. He holds a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and he completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, IBM Research, and Scripps Research.
Abraham Palmer is an author on the manuscript titled “A Novel Quantitative Trait Locus Implicates Msh3 in the Propensity for Genome-wide Short Tandem Repeat Expansions in Mice,” which was recently accepted for publication in Genome Research.
The manuscript titled “Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.
Scientific Reports, volume 13, article number: 7027 (2023)
The manuscript “Genome-wide Association Studies of Human and Rat BMI Converge on Synapse, Epigenome, and Hormone Signaling Networks” has been provisionally accepted for publication as a research article at Cell Reports.
Published: Cell Reports, 2023, August 29, Volume 42, Issue 8, 112873
The manuscript titled “CADM2 is Implicated in Impulsive Personality and Numerous Other Traits by Genome- and Phenome-wide Association Studies in Humans and Mice” was accepted in Translational Psychiatry.
Published in Translational Psychiatry: 12 May 2023
The manuscript titled “Automated Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis (AutoQTL)” was accepted in BioData Mining.
Published in BioData Mining: 10 April 2023
Ben Johnson joined the Bioinformatics team at Palmer Lab in March 2023. He received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University with concentrations in Ecological Genetics, Population Biology, Systematics, and Physiological Ecology.
Welcome, Ben!
The manuscript titled “An exponential increase in QTL detection with an increased sample size” was accepted in GENETICS.
Genetics, Volume 224, Issue 2, June 2023, iyad054
A new R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) was awarded to Dr. Giordano de Guglielmo, with Dr. Abraham Palmer as co-investigator. The 5-year grant is titled “Identification of Genetic Variants that Influence Compulsive Alcohol Intake in Outbred Rats” and will start March 10, 2023 and end on February 29, 2028.
The manuscript titled “Shared Genetic Architecture between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Lifespan” was accepted in Neuropsychopharmacology. Authors include Laura Vilar-Ribó, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, and Abraham Palmer.
